Journalism Grants
Funding For:
Public Health & Safety Reporting
Social Determinants of Health / Substance Use
Recipient:
The Center for Investigative Reporting
Grant Period:
Jan 01, 2014 - Oct 31, 2016
AMOUNT:
$35,000.00
Summary of the Project:
With support from a NIHCM Foundation Journalism Grant, the Center for Investigative Reporting continues its public health and safety reporting, which combines data analysis, cutting-edge technology and storytelling to arm citizens with information on health care services in their communities.
About the Grantee:
The mission of The Center for Investigative Reporting is to engage and empower the public through investigative journalism and groundbreaking storytelling in order to spark action, improve lives and protect our democracy. CIR publishes its multi-platform work on Reveal–a website, public radio program, podcast and social media platform.
Related Grantee Work
October 03, 2015
Playing politics with people's water along US-Mexico border
Reveal and the Texas Tribune partnered to expose how tens of thousands along the Texas border still live without clean, safe water.
Learn MoreAuthor: Neena Satija, The Texas Tribune
March 19, 2015
Bogus screws ended up in spines of surgery patients
This report shows how a lapse in FDA oversight allowed one company to sell millions of dollars in counterfeit implants to a nationwide network of surgeons.
Learn MoreAuthor: Will Evans & Christina Jewett
March 30, 2015
Who’s responsible when America’s your drug dealer?
This article explores the widespread consequences of the overprescription of opiates to veterans being cared for at the Tomah VA in Wisconsin.
Learn MoreAuthor: Aaron Glantz
January 12, 2015
Opiates handed out like candy to ‘doped-up’ veterans at Wisconsin VA
The CIR uncovers that the number of opiates prescribed at the Tomah VA hospital in Wisconsin more than quintupled between 2004 and 2012, even as the number of veterans seeking care at the hospital declined.
Learn MoreAuthor: Aaron Glantz