NewsBusiness, Health How Big Pharma Shapes What Doctors Tell Pregnant Women The science of deciding what prescription drugs are safe for pregnant women is riven by conflicts of interest — a world where influential doctors are on the payroll of pharmaceutical companies and damaging research data goes unpublished. Dyan NearyNovember 13, 2012
NewsBusiness, Politics More Firms Pressure Workers to Vote GOP In a bid to influence environmental and labor regulations, fossil fuel companies are making an unprecedented election-season push — to sway how their own employees vote. Lee Fang & Mike ElkNovember 4, 2012
NewsBusiness, Politics Menards Chain Gives Employees Anti-Obama Propaganda A politically motivated “civics course” linked to Americans for Prosperity is being spoon-fed to employees of a major home-improvement chain. Adele M StanOctober 31, 2012
NewsImmigration, Justice Investigating Immigrant Detention On September 9, InvestigateWest, an independent investigative journalism nonprofit, published a massively researched report on immigration policy in the Northwest… Eric WuestewaldSeptember 19, 2012
NewsJustice, Politics Texas Voter ID Law Violated Voting Rights Act On Tuesday, a federal court in Washington found that Texas’s redistricting maps violated the Voting Rights Act and were “enacted with discriminatory purpose….” Ari BermanAugust 31, 2012
NewsJustice A “Revelatory” Reporter Reveals… Nieman Reports — the quarterly magazine for Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism and a website we follow; you should, too — has a great new… Jayati VoraAugust 2, 2012
NewsJustice Oversight for Oakland Police The Oakland Police Department’s nine-year-long struggle with federal oversight took a significant turn last week, as a federal judge demanded an investigation into police shootings… Ali WinstonJune 5, 2012
NewsBusiness The Prospect’s Prospects This Monday, news broke that if the independent, Washington-based American Prospect doesn’t raise $500,000 by the end of this month, the mag might have to close its doors… Hannah MurphyMay 4, 2012
NewsBusiness, Health Hair Salons Still Putting Workers’ Health At Risk with Brazilian Blowout On March 5, the New York Times reported that Brazilian Blowout, makers of a popular hair straightening service, had agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for about… Virginia Sole-SmithMarch 19, 2012
NewsTechnology New Tools for Investigative Reporters Sarah Cohen wants to make it easier for you to be an investigative journalist. And she should know about that: she’s won almost every major journalism award there is… Jayati VoraFebruary 24, 2012