G.W. Schulz
Reporter
Homebase: Austin, TX
Schulz joined CIR in 2008 and covers homeland security. Prior to that time, he wrote extensively about politics, municipal corruption, workplace safety, criminal justice and the changing national landscape in news media for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Urban Tulsa, a weekly newspaper in Oklahoma. He was an early contributor to the Chauncey Bailey Project, which won a Tom Renner Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors in 2008. In 2007, he won a first place prize in the category of investigative reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for a series documenting the mistreatment of tenants by one of San Francisco’s largest landlords. He also won the coveted Public Service Award that year from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter, for a series on the MediaNews Group’s takeover of several Bay Area newspapers. Schulz graduated from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.


CIR Investigations:
Homeland Security Marked By Waste, Lack of Oversight
BY G.W. SCHULZ   |   CALIFORNIA WATCH   |   SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Records show that communities across California had difficulty managing millions in anti-terrorism grants handed out by Congress after Sept. ...
Fear and Fortune
BY G.W. SCHULZ   |   CALIFORNIA WATCH   |   SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Sept. 11 hastened a booming homeland security industry. One southern California company still struggled to get ahead.
How Was The Money Spent?
CALIFORNIA WATCH   |   SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
Reporter G.W. Schulz describes some of the equipment purchased by California agencies with anti-terrorism grants—a catalog of items that r ...
Track Anti-Terrorism Grants in California
CALIFORNIA WATCH   |   SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
An interactive map shows how much your community in California received from homeland security grants—and how they spent the money.
Assessing RNC Police Tactics, Part 1 of 2
BY G.W. SCHULZ   |   MINNPOST.COM   |   SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
Intelligence-led policing played a starring role in last year’s Republican National Convention, and eight political activists stand accuse ...
Homeland Security Pays Dividends for Alaska
BY G.W. SCHULZ   |   TRUTHDIG   |   OCTOBER 31, 2008
Sarah Palin promotes the self-reliance of her state, but she doesn’t mention the mobile command communications vehicle, bought with federa ...

Other Reporting:
Hunting the Lord of War
BY G.W. SCHULZ  |  SF BAY GUARDIAN  |  JULY 23, 2008
SF-based investigator Kathi Austin helped expose a notorious arms dealer and awaken the world to a key human rights struggle.
Lessons From the Bridge
BY G.W. SCHULZ  |  SF BAY GUARDIAN  |  NOVEMBER 14, 2006
Three dead bodies and 166 injuries later, the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge is ready for an earthquake. But is California ready to properly r...
A Hammer, a Pizza Guy and $60
BY G.W. SCHULZ  |  SF BAY GUARDIAN  |  APRIL 11, 2007
A hammer, a pizza guy, and $60: how California's probation system can skew criminal justice.