Carrie Ching
Senior Multimedia Producer
Homebase: Oakland, CA
Carrie Ching produces and manages multimedia reports for the Center for Investigative Reporting. She also acts as web editor and runs The Muckraker Blog. She is producer of CIR's web-video series, "The Investigators," highlighting investigative reporting—as it happens—around the world. Prior to joining CIR, Carrie was a magazine editor, newspaper reporter, and video journalist. She produced video reports for Washingtonpost.com and Current TV, and her writing has appeared in FRONTLINE/World, Mother Jones, California magazine, AlterNet.org, and The Honolulu Advertiser. In 2000 she launched the online youth magazine WireTap (which won a Webby Award in 2004). She completed a master's degree in journalism from UC Berkeley in 2005.


CIR Investigations:
California's top greenhouse gas polluters
BY CARRIE CHING   |   CALIFORNIA WATCH   |   JANUARY 16, 2010
The top 100 carbon dioxide-producing facilities in California generated 101,890,944 metric tons of CO2 in 2007, according to data recently r ...
Greetings from St. Paul
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
Police pointed to this video among other things as evidence that political activists were planning to cause major disturbances at the Septem ...
Behind the Veil
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   JUNE 23, 2009
Lawlessness and sectarian violence quickly engulfed Iraq after the fall of Saddam, leaving women vulnerable. Anna Badkhen and Mimi Chakarova ...
The Price of Sex: Women Speak
CIR SPECIAL REPORT   |   MAY 26, 2009
After the collapse of communism in 1989, millions of former Soviet bloc residents migrated abroad, breathing life into one of the oldest cri ...
Searching for Kosovo's Missing
BY BRIAN POLLACK, CARRIE CHING, MICHAEL MONTGOMERY   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   APRIL 10, 2009
Ten years after the Kosovo War, Michael Montgomery returns for the BBC to investigate "the other side of the war"—Serbs allegedly kidnappe ...
Colombian Journalists Track Guerrilla War on Contravía
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   MARCH 26, 2009
Colombian journalists Hollman Morris and Juan Pablo Morris are risking their lives to unearth the largely hidden history of the country’s ...
Evidence Ignored in Chauncey Bailey Murder Case: A Timeline
BY CARRIE CHING   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   OCTOBER 26, 2008
The Chauncey Bailey Project reports that Sgt. Derwin Longmire, the lead detective assigned to investigate Chauncey Bailey's slaying, is a su ...
Election 2008: The Secret Money Project
NPR.ORG   |   SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Who's paying to influence voters in your state? Independent groups are pouring millions of dollars into election ad campaigns nationwide. A ...
Web of Influence
BY CARRIE CHING, WILL EVANS   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   FEBRUARY 1, 2008
A CIR web exclusive chart showing which presidential candidates have fundraisers who also work as lobbyists for foreign governments.
Protecting Whistleblowers: Richard Nixon?
BY CARRIE CHING, JAMES SANDLER   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   NOVEMBER 1, 2007
When he was a young U.S. Senator, Richard Nixon stepped forward as one of the great champions of whistleblower rights. History would eventua ...
A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Ad
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   APRIL 10, 2008
When South African police raided the Tradefin warehouse in 2004, they found bomb-making parts and a videotape promoting nuclear kingpin A.Q. ...
Exposed: A World Tour
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE   |   AUGUST 15, 2007
America used to lead the world in protecting its citizens from environmental harm. Not any more. Other countries are banning toxic chemicals ...

Other Reporting:
His Name is Charlie
BY CARRIE CHING  |  CURRENT TV   |   MARCH 18, 2006
When the Vietnam War ended and U.S. troops pulled out of Southeast Asia 30 years ago, they left behind more than 100,000 mixed-race childre...
From Buddha to Jesus
BY CARRIE CHING  |  CURRENT TV   |   NOVEMBER 2006
A look at why some Cambodians are converting to Christianity.
Following Ancient Footsteps
BY CARRIE CHING  |  WASHINGTONPOST.COM   |   MAY 2005
The teenage daughters of Cambodian refugees in Stockton, California retrace the steps of the apsara, women who danced in the royal Khmer co...
The Vet Who Didn't Come Home
BY CARRIE CHING  |  FRONTLINE/WORLD   |   AUGUST 10, 2004
A dispatch on Vietnam War vets living in Southeast Asia and how these expats view the war in Iraq and the U.S. election.
A Slow Paddle Home
BY CARRIE CHING  |  CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE  |  JANUARY 2007
When others come to your paradise to find solitude, where do you find yours? A local girl takes a kayak trip into the heart of old Hawaii.