ProjectJournalism I.F. Stone Award The I.F. Stone Award honored Stone’s legacy of tireless investigations into issues of vital national interest by creating a pathway for emerging reporters to produce their first journalistic investigations. This is what they produced. Image: ROWLAND SCHERMAN Investigations InvestigationBusiness, Health Merchants of Meth With big profits on the line, the drug industry is pulling out campaign-style dirty tricks to keep selling the meds that cooks turn into crank. Jonah EngleMother JonesAugust 1, 2013 InvestigationJustice The Woman Who Took on the DC Police Arrested and placed in a male cellblock, Patti Hammond Shaw faced violence and discrimination. Now she’s changing how police treat transgender people. Nicole PasulkaBuzzFeedJuly 10, 2014 InvestigationWorld The Devil Underground Guns, gold, and blowback from the failed drug war in Colombia. Nadja DrostAtavistOctober 30, 2014 InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Health, World River of Death Factories, many of them US-owned, are dumping toxic chemicals into one of Mexico’s main waterways. Steve FisherFusionJune 2, 2015 InvestigationBusiness, Labor, World Nike Says It Empowers Women Around the World But the young women who make its products in Vietnam are intimidated, belittled, and underpaid. Maria HengeveldSlate MagazineAugust 26, 2016 InvestigationBusiness, Justice Contract Selling Is Back in Chicago Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. fought against predatory sales, Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers again. Rebecca BurnsChicago ReaderMarch 1, 2017
InvestigationBusiness, Health Merchants of Meth With big profits on the line, the drug industry is pulling out campaign-style dirty tricks to keep selling the meds that cooks turn into crank. Jonah EngleMother JonesAugust 1, 2013
InvestigationJustice The Woman Who Took on the DC Police Arrested and placed in a male cellblock, Patti Hammond Shaw faced violence and discrimination. Now she’s changing how police treat transgender people. Nicole PasulkaBuzzFeedJuly 10, 2014
InvestigationWorld The Devil Underground Guns, gold, and blowback from the failed drug war in Colombia. Nadja DrostAtavistOctober 30, 2014
InvestigationBusiness, Environment, Health, World River of Death Factories, many of them US-owned, are dumping toxic chemicals into one of Mexico’s main waterways. Steve FisherFusionJune 2, 2015
InvestigationBusiness, Labor, World Nike Says It Empowers Women Around the World But the young women who make its products in Vietnam are intimidated, belittled, and underpaid. Maria HengeveldSlate MagazineAugust 26, 2016
InvestigationBusiness, Justice Contract Selling Is Back in Chicago Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. fought against predatory sales, Wall Street-backed firms are duping would-be homebuyers again. Rebecca BurnsChicago ReaderMarch 1, 2017