#JournalismJobs WUNC is hiring a NC Newsroom Reporter to cover state government/politics with stories that resonate with audiences outside of Raleigh. Reporting will include spot news, anchor wraps and more. Find this job opening and others on our website: idabwellssociety.org/job/wunc-fm-...

What was supposed to be a model for how the government could get people out of harm’s way along the country’s steadily eroding coastlines has become a cautionary tale for the estimated 2.5 mil Americans who could be forced to relocate away from the coast. floodlightnews.org/isle-de-jean...

At the same time as the city was halting placements, it rejected a move to a cheaper shelter location. For nearly a year, Seattle paid for just as many rooms as before yet helped fewer people off the street with them. www.kuow.org/stories/seat...

As Gaza’s humanitarian crisis grows, women say they have been exploited by local men — some associated with aid groups — promising food, money, water, supplies or work in exchange for sexual interactions. Six women detailed their experiences to The Associated Press. apnews.com/article/gaza...

In 2022 several indigent defendants filed a lawsuit, claiming an ongoing pattern of delays in appointing a public defender for open criminal cases. The suit found at least 8,445 defendants experienced a delay of 30 days or more. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/09/wisc...

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

An investigation by The Washington Post used internal USAID datasets that showed the status of shipments for the first half of 2025. It showed that of $190 million in planned shipments, nearly $76 million never arrived & another 63 million were delayed by more than 7 days. gijn.org/stories/ddj-...

For months, Altadena residents have wondered whether something else might have started fires earlier in their neighborhood. An @npr.org investigation now reveals that transmission lines were not the only kinds of electrical equipment that caused problems on Jan. 7. www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...

This week I moderated a “Crisis in Journalism” panel at Morehouse College. Our panelists were NABJ National President, @errinhaines.bsky.social , AJC EIC (1st Black editor in paper’s 157-year history) Leroy Chapman + @idabwellssociety.bsky.social ED, Dr. Robbie Morganfield. More to come in Fortify.

Microsoft said it had disabled services to a unit within the Israeli military after The Associated Press published reports earlier this year revealing how the Israeli Ministry of Defense had been using Microsoft’s Azure platform to aid in the occupation of the West Bank. apnews.com/article/micr...

The registry is used for background checks across the commonwealth, and in theory keeps those who could harm children away from schools, workplaces, and other sensitive settings. But the state places people on the list without legal proceedings. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/10...

Democratic and Republican lawmakers across the country tried to push through bills to tighten gift limits, toughen conflict-of-interest provisions or expand financial disclosure reporting requirements. But many of the measures were derailed. www.propublica.org/article/ethi...

Farming counties saw the second-highest increase among the six federal economic categories — farming, mining, recreation, manufacturing, government and nonspecific — according to an analysis by Investigate Midwest of U.S. Census Bureau and Feeding America data. investigatemidwest.org/2025/09/24/t...

Are you a journalist seeking your next opportunity? @propublica.org has multiple openings on the Ida B. Wells Society job board! Members have free access to all job openings and more: buff.ly/XBmg9xP #journalismjobs

Dozens of killings have gone unanswered in the last decade in Mississippi’s prison system. The Marshall Project - Jackson, Mississippi Today, Clarion Ledger, Hattiesburg American and The Mississippi Link exposed the chaos and neglect behind bars. www.themarshallproject.org/tag/mississi...

New York State journalists: We're coming to @syracuseu.bsky.social @newhousesu.bsky.social on Oct. 24 with our two-day investigative reporting basics bootcamp! Register to attend and learn how to do investigative journalism alongside your regular beat! idabwellssociety.org/news/registe...

Lawmakers called on American tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for Congress to examine the issue after The Associated Press reported that U.S. technology had played a greater role than previously known in enabling human rights abuses. apnews.com/article/chin...

The Marshall Project’s latest investigation found that prison homicides in the state are caused by chronic understaffing, gang violence, and delays in treating life-threatening injuries. gijn.org/stories/afgh...

Andrew Bailey’s nearly three-year term as Missouri’s top lawyer was marked by splashy fights over gender, schools and diversity that often fizzled but boosted his political profile. Now he’s co-deputy director of the FBI. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

With low labor and land-lease costs, southern Laos has drawn in investors to set up vast banana and durian plantations. This hunger for fruit cultivation has intensified land grabbing, now a major force behind the country’s alarming rates of deforestation. pulitzercenter.org/projects/fru...

TOMORROW: Join the Ida B. Wells Society for an investigative internship info session on Wednesday, September 24 at 6 p.m. ET. This virtual session will include tips on making your application stand out, what the internship entails, and Q&A. idabwellssociety.org/news/ibws-in...

In this state-sanctioned world, the judges’ salaries are funded by Citizens, the rules followed in Florida’s circuit courts don’t all apply and the insurance company almost always triumphs. It’s a landscape so fraught that a judge recently paused its proceedings. www.propublica.org/article/citi...

Journalists had uncovered that Fiagro was financing illegal agribusiness. This Brazilian ecosystem is also threatened by the expansion of monoculture crops. Journalists aimed to check if it had the same impact on the world’s largest tropical rainforest. gijn.org/stories/conn...

HAPPENING THIS WEEK: We're hosting an investigative internship info session on Wednesday, September 24 at 6 p.m. ET. This virtual session will include tips on making your application stand out, what the internship entails, and Q&A. idabwellssociety.org/news/ibws-in...

Five years after ICIJ published the FinCEN Files, the Trump administration has walked back significant anti-money laundering rules. www.icij.org/news/2025/09...

When a team of reporters at ProPublica got access to the code, they found it riddled with errors and hallucinations, including at times grossly inflating the monetary value of contracts or flagging contracts directly tied to patient care. gijn.org/stories/how-...

"In the US now, the media industry is facing extraordinary financial pressure, leaving newsrooms less and less willing to invest in in-depth investigations. At the same time, those who need to be held accountable are growing ever more rich and powerful." gijn.org/stories/gijc...

The Ida B. Wells Society is hosting an investigative internship info session on Wednesday, September 24 at 6 p.m. ET. This virtual session will include tips on making your application stand out, what the internship entails, and Q&A. Register here: idabwellssociety.org/news/ibws-in...

The largely behind-the-scenes campaign offers a glimpse into how the tech giant is working to preserve its grip on the online ad market and how it attempts, without being seen, to shape policies in a state with one of the nation’s strictest privacy protection laws. themarkup.org/privacy/2025...

Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. apnews.com/article/chin...

Beardstown has been a case study in how immigrants have revitalized once-decaying rural towns. But the Trump admin’s crackdown on both documented and undocumented immigration threatens the stability of communities that have long relied on foreign-born workers. investigatemidwest.org/2025/09/03/i...

Three charter school superintendents who are among the highest paid in Texas are overseeing some of the lowest-performing districts in the state, newly released records show. One of them is at risk of closure by school year’s end. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

Investigative journalism at work: The legislation passed with bipartisan support following reporting from The Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica which revealed that Connecticut allows tow truck companies to start the sales process in 15 days on cars valued under $1,500. ctmirror.org/2025/09/08/c...

Register to join us next week for an info session for our internship program! We'll be sharing more information on how you can become a strong applicant this application season! See you Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. ET! Learn more: idabwellssociety.org/news/ibws-in...

The Shapiro admin. has spent more than $6 million in public dollars over the past four months to fix extensive damage to the governor’s residence. Despite using taxpayer money, state officials are shielding information about nearly a quarter of those expenses. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...

After 18 years of scandal and legal battles involving Brown’s family, the theft of millions of dollars, the involvement of two state AGs, 110 lawyers and the sale of Brown’s estate for a reported $90 million not a single scholarship has been funded by Brown’s estate. www.thestate.com/news/local/c...

Every year, the NABJ convention provides attendees with workshops and networking opportunities. The Society sponsors a number of summer interns to attend the convention. Here are their tips and takeaways for a successful convention from this year. idabwellssociety.org/convention-n...

Successfully identifying deepfakes requires combining multiple detection methods and accepting that perfect detection may be impossible. For journalists looking for precise answers, the goal has shifted from definitive identification to a probability assessment. gijn.org/resource/gui...

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The program has helped build or repair more than 1.3 million affordable homes in the last three decades, of which at least 540,000 were in congressional districts that are rural or significantly rural, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data. apnews.com/article/trum...

One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains focused on soybeans and corn. www.propublica.org/article/illi...

One key way journalists can evaluate water use is the amount of water that is considered “consumed,” meaning it is withdrawn from the local water supply and used up — for instance, evaporated as steam — and not returned to its source. gijn.org/stories/rese...

Associated Press interviews with four parents whose daughters trained under Gardner revealed that concerns about the coach were reported to gymnastics authorities as far back as 2018 — four years before he was kicked out of the sport. apnews.com/article/gymn...

Less than 1% of the more than 7,000 probationary workers fired from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service earlier this year on performance grounds were actually documented underachievers, according to a new report from an internal watchdog. www.icij.org/news/2025/09...

Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the only two Black jurors had voted not guilty. www.propublica.org/article/lloy...

An investigation has found that Elon Musk, in partnership with Houston-area Rep. Wesley Hunt, has spent months aggressively pushing state and local officials to hire Musk’s Boring Co. to build two narrower, 12-foot tunnels around one major watershed. www.kut.org/politics/202...

Since Pell Grants have become available to people pursuing degrees from prison, every state and the Federal Bureau of Prisons has tried to expand access to higher education. What they haven’t all done is create a learning environment that supports college-level study. themarkup.org/machine-lear...

A Texas construction company whose employees have died after trenches they were working in collapsed, reached a plea deal Tuesday with prosecutors. When announcing the indictments in 2024, he cited an NPR investigation that year. www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...

In Texas and across the nation, scores of coal-fired plants and petrochemical facilities are allowed to bypass toxic emission rules. capitalandmain.com/trump-admini...

Here's how @propublica.org pulled off a recent investigation: When the Trump administration refused to reveal how many workers had left federal health agencies, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact. www.propublica.org/article/prop...