Watchdogs in the Public Interest
Reportage
Description
Waste, fraud, graft, laxity, dilapidated conditions, corruption: Reporters have often used undercover tactics to investigate.
Reporters
- Pamela Zekman
- Zay N. Smith
- Michael Flannery
- Leon Pitt
- Pamelaa Zekman
- Karen Koshner
- Ed May
- John McMahon
- Ken Silverstein
- Mark Lisheron
- Aaron Swartz
- Woody Klein
- Robert H. Prall
- Unsigned
- William Currie
- George Bliss
- William Mullen
- George Bill
- Ronald Yates
- Editorial
- William Jones
- Edward Schreiber
- William Sherman
- W.T. Stead
- Steve Vogel
- Ann Scott Tyson
- Christopher Lee
- Josh White
- Shankar Vedantam
- David Yancey
- Deborah Howell
- Anne Hull
- Dana Priest
- William Branigin
- Michael Abramowitz
- Peter Baker
- Tamara Jones
- Jim Lehrer
- Kwame Holman
- Mark Benjamin
- Chester Goolrick
- Paul Lieberman
- (Lee May)
- Charles Goolrick
- Charlene Smith-Williams
- Article Unsigned
- Gene Mustain
- Maurice Possley
- Kay Rutherford
- Graeme Zielinski
- David Jackson
- Lisa Anderson
- Hugh Dellios
- Mike Dorning
- William Gaines
- William Crawford
- Robert Unger
- Daniel Egler
- Philip Shenon
- C. S. S.
- Kyle Niederpruem
- Chris Davis
- Matthew Doig
- Jonathan Franklin
- Lisa Fletcher
- Joel Grover
- Matthew Goldberg
- Alix M. Freedman
- Dick J. Reavis
- Duncan Lamont
- Mark Daly
- Ellen Bugher
- Tony Horwitz
- Holly Williams
- Russ Ptacek
- Nadia Pflaum
Media History
The reporting was intended for these media types: Magazine, Newspaper, Book
Additional Resources
Articles, Books, Video/Film
I-"Our Bar Uncovers Payoffs, Tax Gyps" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 5, 1978
First in the Sun-Times' 25-part Mirage Tavern series, exposing small beer corruption in Chicago.II-"Cheating the Taxpayer - 'Mr. Fixit' Tells How" -Mirage- Chicago Sun-Times
January 9, 1978
The Mirage team follows the pace of a local fixer.III-"Payoff Parade Begins" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times | "Mirage Clears Fire Inspection - for $10"
January 10, 1978
Part III of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage tavern sting.IV-"The Envelope, Please . . ." - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times | "Building Aide OKs Mirage for $15"
January 11, 1978
Part IV in the Mirage tavern sting of the Chicago Sun-Times.V-"Shakedown Time Again" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times | Also -- "Shakeup vowed by city building chief"
January 12, 1978
Part V in the Sun-Times Mirage tavern sting to expose corruption and fraud among city inspectors.VI- "'Quick, the Cash; 'I'm Promoted'"- Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 13, 1978
Part VI in the Mirage tavern sting expose of fraud and corruption among city inspectors.VII - "Tavern Tax Frauds Cost State Millions" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 15, 1978
Part VII in the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage tavern expose of fraud and corruption among city inspectors.VIII - "Take $50, Give Free Advice" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 16, 1978
Part VIII of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage tavern sting, exposing fraud and corruption among city inspectors.IX - "We Pay $70 'Extra' for Sign" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 17, 1978
Part IX of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting, exposing corruption and fraud.X - "'Premises Clean: 2 City Health Aides OK Food Amid Filth" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 18, 1978
Part X of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting, exposing fraud and corruption among city inspectors.XI -"An Honest Cop Is No Match for Clout" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 19, 1978
Part XI in the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting, exposing fraud and corruption among city inspectors.XII - "Our Liquor Salesman: Illegal Gifts, Deals Part of Sales Pitch" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 20, 1978
Part XII in the Chicago Sun-Times MIrage Tavern sting series, exposing corruption and fraud among city inspectors.XIII - "'Hot' Trash Taken - for Cold Cash" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 22, 1978
Part XIII in the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting, exposing fraud and corruption among city inspectors.XIII-A - "He Asks Tip for Doing Job" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 22, 1978
Second article on Day XIII of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting series, exposing fraud and corruption among ...XIV - "Vendors Deal Fraud, Kickbacks" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 23, 1978
Part XIV of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting, exposing fraud and corruption among city inspectors.XV - "Ex-Cop in Huge Vending Skim" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 24, 1978
Part XV of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting series, exposing corruption and fraud among city inspectors.XVI - "Bartender's Tip: Your Conscience is Your Guide" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 25, 1978
Part XVI of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting series, exposing fraud and corruption among city inspectors.Mirage Reaction: "City Building Chief Pledges a Shake-Up" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 12, 1978
City building chief reacts to Chicago Sun-Times Mirage series.Mirage Reaction: "Bilandic to Tighten Inspection Practice" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 13, 1978
City mayor reacts to Mirage Tavern expose in the Chicago Sun-Times.Mirage Reaction: "Thompson Backs Curbs on Tavern-Tax Cheats" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 17, 1978
Governor tells a reporter that he favors a long list of reforms recommended by the Sun-Times and Better Government ...XVIA - "On the Rocks with Norty" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times | Reviews Are Mixed for Our Bartender
January 25, 1978
A journalist-turned-bartender plies his new trade — to mixed reaction.Mirage Reaction: "First Firing in Probe of Chicago Corruption" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 30, 1978
A city tree-trimmer is fired for allegedly offering to sell logs he had cut on the job.Mirage Reaction: "Bilandic Office Fails to Back Claim of Earlier Payoff Action" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 27, 1978
The mayor had maintained two weeks earlier that it routinely rooted out corrupt officials but then failed to back up ...XVII - "Hanging Out With the Mirage Menagerie" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-TImes
January 26, 1978
Part XVII in the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting series, exposing fraud and corruption in the city.XVIII - "Pinball Wizard vs. Evel Knievel - Tilt!" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 27, 1978
Part XVIII of the Mirage Tavern sting series, exposing Chicago corruption. This one centers on one of the regulars ...Mirage Reaction: "76% View Graft Here As Extensive, Poll Finds" - Chicago Sun-Times | Nearly One-Third Aware of Payoffs
January 29, 1978
Results of a poll to assess public reaction to the Tavern sting findings.XIX - "Sex on Tap: How Brothel Survives" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times | An Inside Look at a Wells St. Brothel—Suzette's Client List Tops 900
January 29, 1978
As part XIX of the Mirage Tavern sting, Sun-Times reporters go undercover at a nearby brothel.XX - "Heavy Mixing - High-priced Drinks, Sex" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 30, 1978
Part XX of the Mirage Tavern sting series in the Chicago Sun-Times, exposing graft and corruption in the city.XXI - "Roger's Angel Dances for Go-Go Dream" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 31, 1978
Part XXI of the Mirage Tavern sting series, exposing corruption and fraud in the city, profiles a B-girl and how she ...XXII - "Mirage Revolving Door for Life's Misfits" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
February 1, 1978
Part XXII of the Mirage Tavern sting series in the Chicago Sun-Times, exposing corruption and fraud in the city.XXIII - "Gunrunner Boasts of Arsenal For Sale" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
February 2, 1978
Part XXIII of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage tavern sting series on corruption and fraud in the city.Mirage Reaction: "Mr. Fixit's Records Subpenaed by U.S." - Chicago Sun-Times
February 2, 1978
A federal grand jury investigating tax fraud subpoenas the records of a man who had advised The Mirage team about ...XXIV - "Night at the Fights - Everybody's Punchy" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
February 3, 1978
The penultimate article in the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting series, exposing the ways and means of graft ...XXV - "On-Duty Firemen Hustle Tickets for Boss' Band" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
February 5, 1978
Last article in the Chicago Sun-Times 25-part Mirage Tavern sting series, exposing graft and corruption in the city.XXVA - "Mission Accomplished, the Mirage Fades" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
February 5, 1978
A recap of the Mirage Tavern sting method, experience, the series, and the impact it had during the month it was ...Mirage Editorial - "Officials Job Is Clear: Get to Work Against Corruption" - Chicago Sun-Times
February 5, 1978
A Mirage editorial.IA - "It Wasn't Just a Bar, It Was a Mirage" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 8, 1978
Sidebar on the first day of the Chicago Sun-Times Mirage Tavern sting series.Mirage Editorial "How the Public Gets Hurt" - Chicago Sun-TImes
January 8, 1978
A Sun-Times editorial on the Mirage Tavern sting series.Mirage Editorial: "College Education in Fraud" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 9, 1978
A Sun-Times editorial on the Mirage Tavern series.IIIA - "Building Code Gives Muscle to Inspectors" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 10, 1978
Inspector ignores basement fire.Mirage Editorial - "4 Suspensions Aren't Enough" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 10, 1978
Mirage editorial about the lack of action being taken in response to the Sun-Times Mirage series.Mirage Editorial - "Next Steps Against Graft" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 12, 1978
A Mirage editorial, calling for independent investigations into issues raised by the Sun-Times expose.Mirage Editorial: "Council Still Must Act" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 13, 1978
A Mirage editorial calling on the City Council to take action.Mirage Reaction: "New Fire Inspect Chief Vows Cleanup" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 11, 1978
The new chief of the Chicago Fire Prevention Bureau reacts to the Mirage series.Mirage Reaction: "Probe Asked to Determine Loss to State" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 12, 1978
Citing the Mirage disclosures in the Sun-Times, a state legislator warns that systematic tax cheating could be ...Mirage Reaction: "Thompson Backs Curbs on Tavern-Tax Cheats" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 17, 1978
Governor tells a reporter that he favors a long list of reforms recommended by the Sun-Times and Better Government ...Mirage Reaction: "Mirage Triggers 3-Way Probe" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 14, 1978
Sparked by the Sun-Times Mirage investigation, federal, state and county law enforcement agencies meet to plan a ...Mirage Editorial: "State Reforms Needed" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 15, 1978
A Mirage editorial, calling for state reforms.IXA - "What Permits? City Bind to Own Rules" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 17, 1978
Mirage team discovers that no permits are needed for non-illuminated signage and no one seems to know why.Mirage Editorial: "Showdown in City Council" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 17, 1978
Editorial pushes for firm hand against corruption from City Council.Mirage Reaction: "Council Gets Fraud Probe Motions" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 18, 1978
Two resolutions come before the City Council urging investigation of wrongdoing uncovered in the Mirage probe.Mirage Reaction: "Suspend 2 Who Ignored Health Hazards" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 18, 1978
The Board of Health suspends two inspectors who overlooked violations at the Mirage.Mirage Reaction: "State Panel Investigating Tax Fraud" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 19, 1978
Illinois' Department of Revenue announces the establishment of a special fraud unit to investigate the tax-cheating ...Mirage Editorial - "Council's Spineless Step" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 19, 1978
Editorial criticizes City Council's decision to stall on taking any action, a week into the Mirage series.Mirage Reaction: "State to Audit 4 Mirage Suppliers" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 21, 1978
Illinois' Liquor Control Commission orders the auditing of records of four beer and liquor distributors whose ...Mirage Editorial - "Public Service Ripoffs" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 22, 1978
Mirage editorial, again urging the City Council to take action.XVA- "A Vendor's Pitch — Chicago Style" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 24, 1978
Mirage team learns how the vending machine salesman work.Mirage Reaction: "78 Unlicensed Games Seized" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 24, 1978
State revenue agents raid 21 locations and seize 78 unlicensed pinball and video game machines and jukeboxes, acting ...Mirage Editorial - "Don't Back Off State Probe" - Chicago Sun-Times
February 1, 1978
Editorial pushes for state legislative commission to look into corruption scandal.Mirage Reaction - "4 More Suspensions in Wake of Mirage" - Chicago Sun-Times
February 9, 1978
Four city sanitation workers are to be suspended for five days for accepting money to make illegal garbage ...Mirage Editorial - "Bilandic's Puny Response" - Chicago Sun-Times
February 9, 1978
Editorial chastizing the mayor's response to the Mirage investigation findings.Mirage Reaction - "Corruption Not Widespread in Agency-Fitzgerald" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 14, 1978
The building commissioner defends his performance and asserts that corruption and negligence in his agency are not ...Mirage Editorial - "Solid Steps Toward Action" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 26, 1978
Editorial lauds Democratic leaders of the State Assembly for developing a strategy to attack state tax cheating.Mirage Reaction - "Mayor Urged to Investigate Fire Dept." - Chicago Sun-Times
February 6, 1978
Better Government Assn. calls on Mayor to investigate Fire Department after Mirage disclosures, such as that on-duty ...Mirage Reaction: "BGA Sees City Ombudsman Need" - Chicago Sun-Times | "Mayor Denies Payoffs, Shakedowns Prevalent"
January 10, 1978
BGA calls for creation of a city ombudsman with the authority to investigate citizen complaints about city ...Mirage Editorial: "The Public Gets Burned" - Chicago Sun-Times
February 8, 1978
Editorial urges the Mayor to investigate the management of the fire department.Mirage Editorial: "The Public Trust Suffers" - Chicago Sun-Times
January 29, 1978
Editorial asssessing the opinion poll results.Mirage Editorial - "Fire Funds vs. Safety" - Chicago Sun-Times
February 6, 1978
Editorial decrying the misuse of on-duty firemen to sell tickets to a charity that supported the commissioner's ...Mirage Reaction: "How Government Responded to Mirage" - Chicago Sun-Times
February 5, 1978
Chapter and verse on the Mirage findings and the government's response by the day the month-long series concluded."The Mirage" - Pamela Zekman and Zay N. Smith
1979Mirage Reaction: "Subpena Liquor Inspector Records" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
January 26, 1978I-"Our Costly Dilemma: Inside Welfare: Close-up of a Staggering Problem" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Penetrating Look at Costs, Cases Yielded by News' 6-month Study
June 7, 1960
The first in the series called "Our Costly Dilemma" by Buffalo Evening News reporter Ed May exposing inefficiencies ...II-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Staff Stretched Too Thin, Welfare Poorly Policed
June 8, 1960
Editor's note: This series of articles on public welfare follows six months of research and study by the staff of ...IV-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Relief Workers Caught in a Jungle of Red Tape
June 10, 1960
The fourth installment of "Our Costly Dilemma," Ed May's series for the Buffalo Evening News about New York State's ...III-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Many Families on Relief Permanent Public Wards
June 9, 1960
In the third article of the series, Buffalo Evening News reporter Ed May describes how some families collect welfare ...V-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Families Shirk Legal Duty To Take Care of Their Own
June 11, 1960
In this fifth installment of Ed May's "Our Costly Dilemma" series, he reports that relatives of those eligible for ...VI-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Storm Center of Relief: Dependent Children's Aid
June 13, 1960
In the sixth installment of his "Costly Dilemma" series, Ed May writes about the ballooning cost of welfare's "aid ...VII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Some Malingerers Take Long Rides on Relief
June 14, 1960
In the seventh article in Ed May's series about New York State's welfare system, he reports that some welfare ...VIII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Welfare Records Stained With the Blot of Cheating
June 15, 1960
In his eighth article about New York State's welfare system, Buffalo News reporter Ed May reveals ways that ...IX-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Welfare Fraud Carries Only Minimum of Risk
June 16, 1960
In the ninth article of "Our Costly Dilemma" welfare series for the Buffalo Evening News, Ed May reports that ...X-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Major Welfare Problem Is Hiring, Keeping Staff
June 17, 1960
In the tenth article of "Our Costly Dilemma," Buffalo Evening News reporter Ed May turns his attention to the ...XI-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Medical Costs Are Major Factors In Our Ailing Welfare System
June 18, 1960
Ed May writes about the increasing costs of hospitalization and medical care in general and its burden on New York ...XII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Worried About the Rent? It's More Than $7 Million
June 20, 1960
In the twelfth article in his series about New York State's welfare system, Buffalo News reporter Ed May reveals how ...XIII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Welfare Not a Bonanza For Those Truly in Need
June 21, 1960
In the penultimate article in his 14-part series on New York State's welfare program, Ed May explains that while ...XIV--"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News | Some Ways to Lighten The Burdens of Welfare
June 22, 1960
In the final installment of "Our Costly Dilemma," a series about New York State's welfare program, reporter Ed May ..."'Our Costly Dilemma’ and welfare revisited, 50 years later" (Ed May) - Buffalo Evening News
June 13, 2010
A retrospective on the effect of the series, fifty years after it first ran."Their Men in Washington" - Ken Silverstein - Harper's | Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire
July 1, 2007
Silverstein's undercover report on the ways in which lobbyists help dictatorial regimes gain favor in Washington. ...Ken Silverstein's "Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship"
2008Turkmenistan Reaction: "Lying to Get The Truth" - Mark Lisheron - AJR | A powerful article in Harper’s about lobbying in Washington reignites a long-standing debate over the ethics of undercover journalism.
October 1, 2007
A response to the controversy surrounding Ken Silverstein's Harper's article on lobbyists in DC."Journalism Ethics: A Wrap-up" - Ken Silverstein - Harper's
July 12, 2007
Ken Silverstein discusses some of the reviews he has received since "Their Men In Washington" was released."The Beltway Press Needs a Good PR Firm" - Ken Silverstein - Harper's
July 2, 2007
Ken Silverstein discusses the mixed reviews he's received for his op-ed "Their Men in Washington" in the July issue ..."A 'Grassroots' Anecdote" - Ken Silverstein - Harper's
June 29, 2007
Ken Silverstein responds to the comments he has received from his piece "Their men in Washington.""Lobby Shops for Turkmenistan: Will Lie for Money" - Ken Silverstein - Harper's
June 24, 2007
Ken Silverstein explains his article "Their Men in Washington.""Kurtz on Undercover Journalism: The horror!'" - Ken Silverstein - Harper's
June 25, 2007
Right after Ken Silverstein published "Their Men in Washington," Howard Kurtz wrote a response bashing Silversteins' ..."Is Undercover Over?" - Aaron Swartz - FAIR | Disguise Seen as Deceit by Timid Journalists
March 1, 2008
In the aftermath of Ken Silverstein's Turkmenistan sting for Harper's, Swartz examines the reluctance of many media ...IX-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | Lack of Inspection Brings Squalor
July 1, 1959
In this seventh installment of the "I Lived in a Slum" series, NY World Telegram and Sun staff writer Woody Klein ...X-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | City Aids Admit Blight Is Gaining
July 2, 1959
In this eighth and final installment of the NY World-Telegram and Sun's "I Lived in a Slum" series, Woody Klein ...I-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | Sickening Story Unfolds in City's Blighted Areas
June 22, 1959
This introductory article reports of the specifics of Woody Klein's one month stay in the city's worst slums - how ...VI-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | Bugs Reign in Squalor
June 27, 1959
In this fourth installment of the "I Lived in a Slum" series, New York World-Telegram and Sun reporter Woody Klein ...III--"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | Tenants Battle to Survive in Lower East Side's 'Korea'
June 25, 1959
In this second installment of the "I Lived in a Slum" series, Woody Klein writes about his experience living in a ...IV-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | 'We Ain't Alive, Just Hangin' On'
June 26, 1959
In this third installment of the "I Lived in a Slum" series, staff writer Woody Klein reports on his experience ...VII-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | At the End of the Road - Welfare
June 29, 1959
In the fifth installment of the "I Lived in a Slum" series, Woody Klein writes about his experience trying to ...VIII-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | Tenant Rights Lost in Ignorance
June 30, 1959
In the sixth installment of the "I Lived in a Slum" series, Woody Klein reports that despite living in terrible ...II-"I Lived in a Slum" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram and Sun | 'At Home' in a Filthy Cage; Family Is Trapped in West Side's Jungle
June 23, 1959
In the first installment to the "I Lived in a Slum" series, Woody Klein reports on his experience living in a leaky ...XI- "Boy on the Brink" - Woody Klein - New York World Telegram & Sun | Miguel is Trapped in Slum Jungle
July 6, 1959
Woody Klein profiles a 19-year-old boy named Miguel who he met during his month spent living in the city's worst slums.Editorial: "I Lived in the Slums" - Unsigned - World Telegram & Sun | Frankly, We're Shocked Too!
June 24, 1959
The New York World-Telegram and Sun's editorial board reacts to staff writer Woody Klein's series "I Lived in a ...Reaction: "Slum Expose Loudly Praised; Aid Offered, Action Demanded" - Unsigned - World Telegram & Sun
July 1, 1959
A review of reader responses to Woody Klein's "I lived in a slum" series for the New York World Telegram and Sun.Woody Klein's "Let in the Sun"
1964VIII-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Vote Machine Waste Told" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 4, 1972
Part of the Tribune's Task Force Report on vote fraud in Chicago's Board of Election Commissioners. This piece ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "2 Precinct Bosses Take 5th In Probe" - George Bliss and William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 6, 1972
Supplemental to the Task Force series on vote fraud in Chicago, this piece reports on the Illinois House elections ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "U.S. Probes '71 Vote in 34th Ward" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 7, 1972
Part of the Tribune's Task Force Report on vote fraud in Chicago. This piece reports on the expansion of the ...IX-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Payrolls Padded on Voting Machines" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 5, 1972
Part of the Tribune's Task Force Report on vote fraud in Chicago.Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Crony Draws Big Fee From Vote Board" - William Mullen and George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
October 9, 1972
Reports on the money paid to one of Kusper's associates through the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners. ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Office Ballot Records are Missing" - George Bliss and William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
October 10, 1972
A supplemental piece to the Tribune's Task Force investigation into Chicago vote fraud. As investigations into the ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Opposes Use of Marshals at Polls" - Pamela Zekman and William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 11, 1972
Despite investigations into vote fraud, the chair of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners opposes federal ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Fraud Check Proposed by Vote Commissioner" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 13, 1972
The Democratic controlled Board of Election Commissioners in Chicago reverses precedent and proposes a fraud check ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "FBI Probes Terror in West Side Politics" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 14, 1972
The FBI investigates Chicago's West Side vote fraud after a Tribune task force report on the city's vote fraud.Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Subpena Ward Boss Lists" - George Bliss and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune | Precinct Data Is Sought in Vote Probe
October 21, 1972
After indicting 40 election judges and poll workers on vote fraud charges, a federal grand jury investigation into ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "37 indicted in Vote Fixes; Total Hits 75" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
October 28, 1972
A federal grand jury investigation indicts 37 more people in their vote fraud investigation. Part of the Task Force ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Details of Vote Stealing Charges" - Pamela Zekman and William Currie - Chicago Tribune | 5 City, County Patronage Workers Among Indicted
October 28, 1972
Supplemental story to the Task Force Report examines the identity of those indicted in a federal grand jury vote ...X-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Vote Canvass Fails; Ghosts Haunt Rolls" - George Bliss and William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 30, 1972
Although the Tribune's investigation into vote fraud produced a federal grand jury investigation, the Tribune finds ...I-"Reveal Huge Vote Fraud" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 10, 1972
The first article in the Tribune Task Force's lengthy investigation into election fraud in the March 21 primary ...II-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Election Board Infiltrated by Tribune's reporter" - William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 10, 1972
Written in the first person, Task Force reporter William Mullen describes how he infiltrated the office of Stanley ...III-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Dem-Rule Polls Kill 2-Party System" - George Bill and William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 11, 1972
The Task Force reports that instead of official Republican election judges controlling the poling places for ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "U.S. to Widen Vote Probe" - Ronald Yates and William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 11, 1972
The Tribune reports on the reaction of U.S. Attorney Thompson, who announced that his office will investigated all ...Sidebar: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Forgery Rampant in 7th Precinct, 24th Ward" - William Mullen and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
September 11, 1972
The Tribune Task Force reports that in the 7th precinct of Chicago's 24th Ward, handwriting experts identified at ...IV-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Probe Shows Plight of G.O.P. Poll Judges" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 11, 1972
This article reveals how 22 Better Government Association members and Tribune Reporters applied to be Republican ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "State Acts on Vote Fraud" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 12, 1972Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Suit Seeks U.S. Court Control of Election Board" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
September 12, 1972
This article reports that a suit was brought against the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, seeking an ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Poll Judge Violations Condoned in Election Office" - William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 12, 1972
In another follow-up article at the irregularities in the certification of Republican poll judges, who must have ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Bars Press from Voter Files" - Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
September 13, 1972
Upon Task Force reporter William Mullen's return to the Board of Election Commissioners office, where he previously ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Loose Controls Permit Vote Judges to Switch Parties" - William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 13, 1972
Another follow-up article about the certification of poll judges reveals that oversight is so loose that the same ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Probers 'Blind' to Fraud" - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
September 13, 1972
This article takes a look at the investigators employed by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners and why they ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "3 Are Indicted in Vote Fraud" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 14, 1972
This article reports on the first indictments after the Tribune revealed widespread vote fraud in the March 21st ...V-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Workers Fight to Save Jobs" - William Mullen and William Currie - Chicago Tribune | Vote Fraud Product of Patronage
September 14, 1972
Task Force reporters Mullen and Currie explore reasons why fraud was so widespread in the poll judge certification ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Prober Violated Law: Kusper" - George Bliss and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
September 15, 1972
In a press conference, chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Comissioners Stanley Kusper accused William Mullen, ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Percy Urges FBI Probe of Vote Fraud in Chicago" - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
September 15, 1972Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Mass Vote Fraud Arrests" - William Mullen and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune | 40 Reported Cited by U.S. Grand Jury
September 16, 1972
The Tribune reports that at least 35 people were arrested by federal agents after they were indicted by a federal ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Reign Attacked" - George Bliss and William Currie - Chicago Tribune | Fraud at Polls Described to House Unit
September 16, 1972
The Tribune reports on hearings held by an Illinois House subcommittee charged with investigating the vote fraud in ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "U.S. Acts to Protect Vote" - George Bliss and William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 17, 1972
The Tribune reports that the federal government, in addition to arresting those indicted for vote fraud during the ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "List of 40 Indicted in Vote Fraud" - Pamela Zekman and William Currie - Chicago Tribune
September 17, 1972
The Tribune publishes a list of those indicted for vote fraud by a federal grand jury, including poll judges, ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "20 More Vote Fraud Indictments Expected" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 18, 1972VI-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Cracking Dem Sanctum" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune | How Tribune Got Vote Fraud Story
September 18, 1972
The Tribune reports on the experiences of reporter William Mullen, who pieced together evidence of vote fraud while ...VII-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Vote-Stealing Old Story in Chicago's Elections" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
September 18, 1972
Tribune reporter William Currie gives a historical account of vote fraud in Chicago.Editorial: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "The Vote Fraud Tragedy" - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
September 18, 1972
An editorial by The Chicago Tribune praising the action taken by U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson to bring those who ...VIII-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Illinois' Absurd Election Code" - Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune | A Patchwork Quilt
September 18, 1972
Task Force reporter Pamela Zekman delves into Illinois' election code, unpacking its most contradicting and ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "More Poll Cheating Detailed" - William Currie and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
September 22, 1972I-Private Ambulance Investigation: "Men Of Mercy? Profit in Pain" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 7, 1970
The first in a series of articles on Chicago's private ambulance companies, based on the reporter's experience ...II-Private Ambulance Investigation: "Sadism Rides an Ambulance" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 8, 1970
A Tribune reporter's second report based on two months of undercover work as a Chicago ambulance driver.III-Private Ambulance Investigation: "Heart Victim is left in Flat; Had only $2" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 9, 1970
The third report from Tribune reporter William Jones, who worked for two months as an ambulance driver in Chicago.IV-Private Ambulance Investigation: "Police Sell Ambulance Cases" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune | $10 is Common Fee
June 10, 1970
The fourth report in Jones's undercover series on Chicago's private ambulance firms. This story focuses on police ...Reaction: Private Ambulance Investigation: "Ambulance Quiz Ordered" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune | State Cuts off Welfare Fees
June 10, 1970
Although not part of the undercover series, this supplemental piece reports on actions taken as a result of the ...V-Private Ambulance Investigation: "Ex-State Official Inflates Costs for Ambulances' Welfare Clients" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 11, 1970
The fifth article in the Tribune's series on private Chicago ambulance firms. This piece covers the firms' inflated ...Reaction: Private Ambulance Investigation: "3 Ambulance Firms Banned in Aid Cases" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune | County Welfare Chief Orders Investigation
June 11, 1970
The Tribune's undercover series on Chicago's private ambulance firms results in three companies being banned from ...VI-Private Ambulance Investigation: "Ambulances' Crews Pilfer Hospital Goods for Their Supplies" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 12, 1970
The sixth and final article in the Tribune's series on private ambulance companies in Chicago looks at hospital ...Follow-up: Private Ambulance Investigation: "Ambulance Quiz in Senate Urged" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 13, 1970
A follow-up piece to the six-part undercover series on Chicago's private ambulance services. Actions taken as a ...Follow-up: Private Ambulance Investigation: "Report Urges Control Over Ambulances" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune | Study Rates Services for Emergencies
June 14, 1970
A study with similar findings to the Tribune's undercover series on Chicago's private ambulance firms recommends ...Reaction: Private Ambulance Investigation: "City Ambulance Reforms: Daley Vows More Units, Better Care" - William Jones and Edward Schreiber - Chicago Tribune | Doctors to Train Attendants
June 18, 1970
A follow-up piece on the reforms planned in the wake of Jones's six-part undercover series on the city's private ...Follow-up: Private Ambulance Investigation: "City Ambulance Firm Linked to Mob Loans" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 21, 1970
One of the three Chicago private ambulance firms banned from welfare clients in the wake of the Tribune's undercover ...Reaction: Private Ambulance Investigation: "City Controls on Ambulance Services Proposed" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 24, 1970
Chicago's health commissioner and the Tribune's reporter for an undercover series on the city's private ambulance ...Reaction: Private Ambulance Investigation: "Investigators Find Three Linked To Mob Control Ambulance Firm" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 25, 1970
A federal investigation finds that one of the targets of the Tribune undercover report on private ambulance firms is ...Reaction: Private Ambulance Investigation: "Ambulance Firms Denied Funds" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
June 26, 1970
Two firms investigated by the Tribune are decertified for the transportation of elderly people by Medicare officials.Follow-up: Private Ambulance Investigation: "Left By Ambulance, Prober Says At Quiz" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
September 19, 1970
An article based on testimony was given during hearings against three ambulance firms called as a result of ...Reaction: Private Ambulance Investigation: "Hearings End In Ambulance Abuse Cases" - William Jones - Chicago Tribune | Licenses of 3 Firms Are in Jeopardy
September 22, 1970
Jones continues his coverage of the city's private ambulance firms by reporting on the hearings called as a result ...I-"Medicaid Probe - A Cold? Take 3 Doctors Every Hour" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
January 23, 1973
The first article of a Pulitzer-prize-winning series exposing medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter William ...II-Medicaid Probe: "Our 'Patient' Gets More Tests on 2d Visit" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
January 24, 1973
The second article of a Pulitzer-prize-winning series exposing medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...III-Medicaid Probe: "How Medicaid Paid $457,000 for Sesame Oil" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
January 25, 1973
The third installment of a Pulitzer-prize-winning series exposing medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...IV-Medicaid Probe: "You Don't Need Glasses to See Thru This" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
January 29, 1973
The fourth installment of William Sherman's Pulitzer-prize-winning series exposing medicaid fraud in the New York ...V-Medicaid Probe: "How a Physician Can Prescribe Pure Dollars" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
January 30, 1973
The fifth installment of a Pulitzer-prize-winning series exposing medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...VII-Medicaid Probe: "Pair of Medicaid Kings With a Midas Touch" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
February 1, 1973
The seventh installment of a Pulitzer-prize-winning series exposing medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...VIII-Medicaid Probe: "Medicaid Loses as Docs Play Beat the Clock" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
February 2, 1973
The eighth installment of this Pulitzer-prize-winning series exposing medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...IX-Medicaid Probe: "In Race for Medibucks, the City's Poor Lose" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
February 5, 1973
The ninth installment of a Pulitzer-prize-winning series exposing medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...X-Medicaid Probe: "How Medicaid Dentist Pulled City's 800G" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
February 6, 1973
The eighth installment of this Pulitzer-prize-winning series about medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...XI-Medicaid Probe: "Medicaid's Deaf Ear to Hearing Aid Dealers" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
February 7, 1973
The eleventh installment of this Pulitzer-prize-winning series about medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...XII-Medicaid Probe: "City Gives Dr. Hi Billmore Shot of Comedownance" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
February 8, 1973
The twelfth installment of this Pulitzer-prize-winning series about medicaid fraud by New York Daily News reporter ...XIII-Medicaid Probe: "Drawing a Map of Land of Nod"- William Sherman - New York Daily News
February 10, 1973
The thirteenth installment of this Pulitzer-prize-winning series about medicaid fraud by New York Daily News ...VI-Medicaid Probe: "Foot Docs Wearing a 35M Golden Slipper" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
January 31, 1973
In this sixth installment of the New York Daily News' investigation into medicaid fraud by William Sherman, he goes ...XIV-Medicaid Probe: "Bureaucracy Choking in Attempts at Control" - William Sherman - New York Daily News
February 11, 1973
In this fourteenth and final article in the New York Daily News' investigation into medicaid fraud, William Sherman ...I-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine | "The Doctor Who Was Convicted of Murder - The Parents and the Little Girl Who Died"
November 1, 1963II-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine | "They Grasped False Hopes to Save the Child's Eye"
November 1, 1963
Parents submit to a quack doctor in hopes of saving their child's eye without surgery.III-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine | "An Agent Works Undercover to Get the Goods"
November 1, 1963IV-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine | "A Quack is Caught after Taking $500,000 from 35,000 Patients"
November 1, 1963
California quack-hunters tried for years to get Mrs. Ruth Drown, who has treated some 35,000 patients for ...V-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine | "The Adversaries Refuse to Give Up"
November 1, 1963VI-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine | "Experts Sound Off on Menace"
November 1, 1963
Oliver Field, head of the AMA's investigations department, expounds on the subject of medical quackery.I-"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W. T. Stead - Pall Mall Gazette | "The Report of our Secret Commission"
July 6, 1885
Part one of Stead's expose on child prostitution.II-"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W. T. Stead - Pall Mall Gazette | "The Report of our Secret Commission"
July 7, 1885
The second part of W.T. Stead's series on child prostitutionIII-"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W. T. Stead - Pall Mall Gazette | "The Report of our Secret Commission"
July 8, 1885
The third part of W.T. Stead's report on child prostitution.IV-"The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" - W.T. Stead - Pall Mall Gazette | "the Report of our Secret Commission"
July 10, 1885
The final part of W.T. Stead's article on child prostitution .Follow-up: Walter Reed - "Report Says Fixes Slow To Come At Walter Reed" - Steve Vogel - Washington Post
September 27, 2007
Six months after the Walter Reed scandal broke, the Government Accountability Office reports that many of the ...Follow-up/Reaction: Walter Reed - "For War's Wounded, Space to Heal" - Steve Vogel - Washington Post | At New Walter Reed Center, Amputees Try to Readjust to Life in or Out of Battle
September 13, 2007
Walter Reed Medical Center opens the Military Advanced Training Center, a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center for ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Military Psychiatric-Care Overhaul Urged" - Ann Scott Tyson and Christopher Lee - Washington Post
June 19, 2007
An article highlighting the growing concern with the lack of psychiatric-care for enlisted soldiers.Reaction: Walter Reed - "Overhaul Urged in Care for Soldiers" - Steve Vogel - Washington Post | Dole-Shalala Commission Wants Bush to Act Quickly
July 26, 2007
The Dole-Shalala commission, appointed by president Bush in March to look into the quality of veteran healthcare, ..."Army to Train Soldiers About Brain Injuries, Other Mental Health Concerns" - Josh White - Washington Post
July 18, 2007
In an effort to reduce the stigma surrounding PTSD and other traumatic brain injuries, the U.S. is launching a ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "VA Secretary Is Ending a Trying Tenure" - Christopher Lee - Washington Post | Difficulties Include Big Data Breach and Criticism of Care for Veterans Fresh From War
July 18, 2007
A retrospective story about the career of former secretary of veterans affairs R. James Nicholson, who resigned ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "Delayed Benefits Frustrate Veterans" - Christopher Lee - Washington Post | Hundreds of Thousands of Disability Claims Pending at VA; Current Wars Likely to Strain System Further
April 8, 2007
An article highlighting the inefficient and painstakingly slow disability claims process of the Department of ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "VA Benefits System for PTSD Victims Is Criticized" - Shankar Vedantam - Washington Post
May 9, 2007
A report by the Institute of Medicine for the Department of Veterans Affairs said that the method of determining ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Substandard Conditions at VA Centers Noted: 90% of More than 1,000 Problems Reported Are Routine, Officials Say" - Ann Scott Tyson - Washington Post | 90% of More than 1,000 Problems Reported Are Routine, Officials Say
March 22, 2007
A report by the Department of Veterans Affairs surveyed the conditions of over one thousand hospitals and other ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "Fighting Walter Reed After Fighting the War" - Sgt. David Yancey - Washington Post | A Soldier's Story
April 8, 2007
A first person story written by Sgt. David Yancey, about his two-years as a patient at Walter Reed.Ombudsman: Walter Reed - "A Powerful Story at Walter Reed" - Deborah Howell - Washington Post
March 4, 2007
An article by The Washington Post's ombudsman Deborah Howell about the genesis of the Walter Reed series as well as ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Walter Reed Stories Factual But Unfair, Medical Chief Says" - Steve Vogel - Washington Post
February 23, 2007
This article is about the Army Surgeon General t. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley's reaction to The Washington Post's Walter ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "VA Doubles Disability Aid for Iraq War Veteran" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post
October 20, 2007
This article reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs doubled the benefits of Army Spec. Troy Turner, who was ...Editorial: Water Reed - "'Frustratingly Slow'" - Unsigned - Washington Post | Wounded veterans still are getting the runaround from their government
October 21, 2007
An editorial by The Washington Post examining the steps taken by the government to reform the health-care system for ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Review At Walter Reed Is Ordered" - Steve Vogel - Washington Post | Defense Secretary Vows Accountability
February 24, 2007
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announces that an independent panel will look into the conditions and quality of ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "Hospital Officials Knew of Neglect" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post | Complaints About Walter Reed Were Voiced for Years
March 1, 2007
A retrospective article revealing that top Walter Reed officials had ignored complaints about the conditions ...Reaction: Walter Reed -"Army Fires Commander of Walter Reed" - Steve Vogel and Willian Branigin - Washington Post | Former Chief, Also Criticized in Troop-Care Scandal, Temporarily Takes Over
March 2, 2007
Commander of Walter Reed Army Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman was fired and replaced by Walter Reed's former commander ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Army Secretary Ousted" - Michael Abramowitz and Steve Vogel - Washington Post | Second Firing Follows Walter Reed Revelations; Bush Vows a Probe
March 3, 2007
Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey was fired by Defense Secretary Robert Gates for poorly handling the Walter Reed ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Walter Reed Changes Planned" - Josh White and Steve Vogel - Washington Post | Nonmedical General To Be Named as Deputy Commander
March 4, 2007
Two weeks after the Walter Reed scandal broke, The Washington Post reported that the Army is changing the command ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "Walter Reed Hearing to Put Spotlight on Kiley's Leadership" - Josh White - Washington Post
March 5, 2007
The Washington Post reports on the topics likely to be discussed at the first congressional hearing about the Walter ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Apologies, Anger at Walter Reed Hearing" - Michael Abramowitz and Steve Vogel - Washington Post | Army Chiefs Plead Ignorance, But Lawmakers Are Skeptical
March 6, 2007
Coverage of the first congressional hearing since the Walter Reed scandal broke two weeks earlier.Reaction: Walter Reed - "Dole, Shalala to Lead Troop-Care Panel" - Josh White - Washington Post | Bipartisan Commission Will Evaluate Treatment, From Battlefield to Civilian Life
March 7, 2007
President Bush announces that former senator Robert J. Dole and former secretary of health and human services Donna ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Surgeon General Of Army Steps Down" - Josh White - Washington Post
March 13, 2007
Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, Surgeon General of the Army and interim commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "At Walter Reed, Bush Offers an Apology" - Peter Baker - Washington Post
March 31, 2007
President Bush visits Walter Reed to inspect the repairs and deliver a speech to its officers and staff, over one ...II-Ward 57 Walter Reed Amputees - "Moving Forward, One Step at a Time" - Anne Hull - Washington Post | After Iraq, Wounded Soldiers Try Out New Limbs, New Lives
July 21, 2003
The second of two articles about the treatment and rehabilitation of amputees at Walter Reed Medical Center.I-Ward 57 Walter Reed Amputees - "The War After the War" - Anne Hull - Washington Post | Soldiers' Battle Shifts From Desert Sands to Hospital Linoleum
July 20, 2003
This lengthy article is the first of a set of two articles about amputees at Walter Reed focused on Ward 57, Walter ...Reaction: Walter Reed - "Army Generals Apologize for Walter Reed Failures" - Jim Lehrer and Kwame Holman - NewsHour | Maj. Gen. George Weightman, who was recently fired as head of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley apologized for substandard outpatient care at the medical center and vowed to improve the system at a House hearing Monday
March 5, 2007
Radio broadcast titled "Is This Any Way to Treat Our Troops? The Care and Condition of Wounded Soldiers at Walter ...I-Walter Reed: "Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration at Army's Top Medical Facility" - Dana Priest and Anne Hull - Washington Post
February 18, 2007
First in a series of articles exposing the poor conditions endured by war veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical ...II-Walter Reed: "The Hotel Aftermath" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post | Inside Mologne House, the Survivors of War Wrestle With Military Bureaucracy and Personal Demons
February 19, 2007
The second installment in The Washington Post’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning series about the Walter Reed Army Medical ...III-Walter Reed: "Hospital Investigates Former Aid Chief" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post | Walter Reed Official Had Own Charity
February 20, 2007
The third article in The Washington Post’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning series "The Other Walter Reed" reveals that ...IV-Walter Reed: "'It Is Just Not Walter Reed'" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post | Soldiers Share Troubling Stories Of Military Health Care Across U.S.
March 5, 2007
Part of The Washington Post's "The Other Walter Reed" series, this article explores how VA hospitals across the ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "Soldier Finds Comfort at Dark Journey's End" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post
June 17, 2007
This article focuses PTSD-patient Lt. Sylvia Blackwood and her difficulty getting treatment at Ward 3D East of the ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "The War Inside" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post | Troops Are Returning From the Battlefield With Psychological Wounds, But the Mental-Health System That Serves Them Makes Healing Difficult
June 17, 2007
Part of The Washington Post's "The Other Walter Reed" series. This article focuses on Army Spec. Jeans Cruz, a ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "A Wife's Battle" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post | When Her Soldier Returned From Baghdad, Michelle Turner Picked Up the Burden of War
October 14, 2007
Another article about the mental health of soldiers returning from war, this one focusing on Michelle Turner, the ...Follow-up: Walter Reed: "A Patient Prosecuted" - Dana Priest and Anne Hull - Washington Post | Doctors at Walter Reed say she has a mental disorder. Army superiors say that's just an 'excuse' for her actions.
November 2, 2007
This article is about 1st Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric patient at Walter Reed. Although diagnosed with a ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "Little Relief on Ward 53" - Anne Hull and Dana Priest - Washington Post | At Walter Reed, Care for Soldiers Struggling With War's Mental Trauma Is Undermined by Doctor Shortages and Unfocused Methods
June 18, 2007
This article tells the story of Joshua Calloway, an Army Private First Class who returned from Iraq with PTSD, and ...Follow-up: Walter Reed - "Almost Home, but Facing More Delays at Walter Reed" - Dana Priest and Anne Hull - Washington Post | Errors Slow Disabled Soldier's Retirement
September 15, 2007
This article highlights the inefficiency, disorganization and bureaucracy faced by Walter Reed patients awaiting ...II-"Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Behind the Walls of Ward 54" - Mark Benjamin - Salon | They're overmedicated, forced to talk about their mothers instead of Iraq, and have to fight for disability pay. Traumatized combat vets say the Army is failing them, and after a year following more than a dozen soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital, I believe them.
February 18, 2005
The first major article about the poor quality of care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. This story focuses on the ...III-"Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Losing Their Minds" - Mark Benjamin - Salon | More U.S. soldiers than ever are sustaining serious brain injuries in Iraq. But a significant number of them are being misdiagnosed, forced to wait for treatment or even being called liars by the Army.
January 5, 2006
An article highlighting the increasing number of soldiers returning from war with brain injuries and psychiatric ...I-"Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Insult to Injury" - Mark Benjamin - Salon | Some wounded soldiers back from Iraq are having to pay for meals at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Veterans' groups say it's another symptom of fighting a costly war on the cheap.
January 27, 2005
At Walter Reed Army Medical Center, hundreds of wounded outpatient veterans whose stay exceeds 90 days must pay for ...Intro: "The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution
December 1, 1979
Introduction to the Atlanta Constitution's six-part series on Georgia's lowest wage earners. The facsimiles come ...I-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "The Turpentine Men: Hard Woods Toil for Little Pay"
December 1, 1979
Lee May spends a week working with the turpentine men of the South Georgia woods to learn about their lives in Part ...IA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected"- Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "For Many Americans, Work Pays Off in Poverty"
December 1, 1979
The Constitution found underpaid workers in these industries: ice plants, poultry, gas stations, deer tongue, motels.IB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Charles Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Junior Sears: A Man Born to Turpentine"
December 1, 1979
Profile of Junior SearsIC-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "L.D. Davis: 'Boss Had The Pencil'"
December 1, 1979
Profile of L.D.Davis, one of the turpentine laborers, who got out of the "web of work" to be "his own man" through a ...ID-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Jim Palmer: He Recalls Bad Days in the Woods"
December 1, 1979
Profile of Jim Palmer, who recalls life as a worker in the turpentine woods.II-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Endless Debt Haunts Turpentiners"
December 2, 1979
The second part in Goolrick and Lieberman's series discusses the endless debts and lack of options of turpentiners.IIA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Naval Stores Ages-Old, but Few Like Living in the Past"
December 2, 1979
Naval stores are the ingredients used in scores of products "from paint thinner and wood stains to medicated soaps ...III-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "No Golden Eggs in Georgia's Chicken Sheds: Whole Families Labor On Poultry Farms to Earn Paycheck of a Single Workman""
December 3, 1979
The third installment in the series by Lieberman and Goolrick describes the involvement of whole families in work on ...IV-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Charles Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Motels, Gas Stations: Motel Maid's Wages Fall Into Crevice in the Law"
December 4, 1979
A look at the lives of underpaid motel maids in Georgia. Charlene Smith-Williams worked as a motel maid for the ...IVA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Some 'Surprised . . . I Pay $2.50'"
December 4, 1979
Sidebar with Jane Love, who with her husband Sandy, owned and managed the "38-unit Rose Garden Motel on Interstate ...IVB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Unique Deductions Push Pay Below U.S. Minimum"
December 4, 1979
Sidebar about a laundry presser.V-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Ice Toters, Ministore Clerks: Over 40 Years, A Corporation's Pattern of Underpaying Workers"
December 5, 1979
Reporters look into the pattern of underpaying workers at the Atlantic Co., Inc., an Atlanta-based conglomerate that ...VA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Munford: Minimum Wage a Tragic Thing"
December 5, 1979
Dillard Munford, whose company runs Majik Markets, the nation's second-largest convenience store chain, decries the ...VI-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Work Ethic Alive Amidst Poverty: They'd Rather Collect Weeds Than Welfare"
December 6, 1979
Constitution finds the American work ethic alive and well, even at the lowest paid level of employment.VIA-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Wage Enforcers Overwhelmed by Complaints"
December 6, 1979
The final entry in the "Underpaid and Under-protected" series dives into what happens with workers' complaints.VIB-"The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution | "Beverly Worrell Has Done Battle 38 Years for Nation's Underpaid"
December 6, 1979
Sidebar profile of Beverly Worrell, an attorney who has devoted his career to fighting for the rights of underpaid ...Response: "Pulse of the Public: 'Underpaid ...' Series: 'Excellent Work'" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution
December 7, 1979
A short letter to the newspaper, responding to the "Underpaid and Under-protected" series by Chester Goolrick and ...I-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV | "They're getting away with $3 billion a year -- and all you drivers pay"
February 10, 1980II-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times and WLS-TV | “Legal Advice? Theirs Is Fraud: Five Who Traffic in Automobile-Accident Cases”
February 11, 1980
see excerptIII-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “How Superswindling Pays: Just a Little Nets a Lot If Accident Case Is ‘Perfect’”
February 12, 1980
see excerptIV-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “Lawyers’ Swindling Sidekicks”
February 14, 1980V-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “Accidents Too Good to Leave to Lawyers”
February 14, 1980
see excerptVI-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “Chasers Converge on Accident Scene”
February 15, 1980
see excerptVII-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “A Hospital for Greedy"
February 17, 1980
see excerptVIII-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “Our Own Phony Patient Is Hospitalized and Discovers the Hospital Is a Mirage"
February 18, 1980
Sun-Times sting on the Community Hospital of Evanston, where an insurance fraud scam was in operation.IX-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “The Accident Mills—Clinics Processing Cheats by the Thousands"
February 19, 1980
see excerptX-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “These Chiropractors Are Master Hands . . . at Juggling the Facts on Injuries"
February 20, 1980
see excerptXI-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “Doctors’ ‘Treatments’ Keep Fraud Alive”
February 21, 1980
see excerptXII-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “The Hypocritical Oath—and Doctors Who Lie by It"
February 22, 1980XIII-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “‘Swindlers’ Take Pains to Get Themselves Hospitalized”
February 24, 1980XIV-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “Accident Cheats Add to Hospital Image Problem”
February 25, 1980XV-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “‘Accident-Prone’ Hospital Cures Itself"
February 26, 1980XVI-"The Accident Swindlers" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times | “‘No Fault’—an Answer to Accident Fraud”
February 27, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": “Probe Abuses at Hospital—State Legislator” - Unsigned - Chicago Sun-Times
February 19, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": “Department Probes Moonlighting Cop Who Aids Fraudulent Claims”
February 22, 1980Reaction: “The Accident Swindlers": "State Agency Probes Practices Uncovered in Swindler Series” - Chicago Sun-Times
February 21, 1980Reaction: “The Accident Swindlers": "Hospital Boss Vows to Probe Methods” - Chicago Sun-Times
February 20, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers:" - "Agency Ignored Reports of Phony Patients" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain- Chicago Sun-Times
February 28, 1980
Reaction to Accident Swindlers series.Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "Federal Panel Probes Fake Car-Injury Claims" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
February 29, 1980
Reaction to the Accident Swindlers series.Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "Hospital Executive's Sideline Pads 'Take'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
March 11, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "State Board Orders Evanston Hospital to Hearing'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
March 17, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "Series Spawns a Wave of Hospital Shakeups'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
April 3, 1980Story and Editorial: "The Accident Swindlers": "Thompson Bills Hit Accident Fraud" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
April 5, 1980Follow-up: "The Accident Swindlers": "Smashup Cheats- How They Get YOU'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
April 6, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "Hospital in Evanston Loses Accreditation'" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
April 8, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers": "Panel Blasts Hospital Board'" - Gene Mustain and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Sun-Times
April 10, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers:" - "State Panel Asks Voiding of Chiropractor's License" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
April 11, 1980Follow-up: "The Accident Swindlers": “Hospital Aide Ties to 2 Clinics Told” - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
May 12, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers" “State to Suspend License of Hospital in Evanston” - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
June 6, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers" “Year in Jail for Accident Swindler”
July 1, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers" “Two Linked to Ripoffs Convicted" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
May 30, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers" “Chiropractor to Aid Prosecutors" - Kay Rutherford - Chicago Sun-Times
May 31, 1980Reaction: "The Accident Swindlers" “Hospital Under Fire in Probe Shuts Down" - Pamela Zekman and Gene Mustain - Chicago Sun-Times
June 3, 1980Editorial: "The Accident Swindlers": "The Crash and Cash 'Game' and the Chief Perpetrators" - Chicago Sun-Times
February 14, 1980Editorial: "The Accident Swindlers": "Licensing Hospitals to Steal" - Chicago Sun-Times
March 2, 1980I-Miracle Merchants: "At Times, I've Wanted to Turn It Off Too" - Graeme Zielinski and David Jackson - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
The Tribune reports on the experiences of a group of staffers who among them sponsor a total of 12 children through ...II-Miracle Merchants: Precede: "About This Special Report" - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
March 22, 1998I-A - The Miracle Merchants - Lisa Anderson - Chicago Tribune | Miracle Merchants Series
March 15, 1998
Lisa Anderson reveals that child sponsorship is a fraud.I-B - Miracle Merchants: "Relentless Campaigns of Hollow Promises" - Lisa Anderson - Chicago Tribune | Charity's Probe Finds Sponsors Funded at Least 24 Dead Children
March 15, 1998
Lisa Anderson reveals more myths about child sponsorship organizations.I-C - Miracle Merchants: "Unprecedented? Charity's Own Probe Finds More Dead Children" - Lisa Anderson - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
The Tribune researched more about the sponsors who had been sending money for dead children.I-D - Miracle Merchants: "Greetings From Grave: 'We Are All Doing Well'" - Hugh Dellios and Lisa Anderson - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
Thank you letters were being sent from sponsored children years after they had passed away.I-E - Miracle Merchants: "For Sponsors, Image and Reality Worlds Apart" - Hugh Dellios - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
Hugh Dellios investigates how organizations like Save the Children can get away with lying to sponsors attempting to ...I-F - Miracle Merchants: "Myth VS. Reality in Africa" - Hugh Dellios and Lisa Anderson - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
The Chicago Tribune sponsored two children in Africa to investigate to workings of organizations such as Save the ...Reaction-"Save the Children Reacts to Probe, Plans Reform" - Lisa Anderson - Chicago Tribune
March 18, 1998
Save the Children responds to The Chicago Tribune's allegations about their organization.Reaction-"Children's Charities to Improve Monitoring New Rules Designed to Make Sure Funds are Used as Advertised" - Mike Dorning - Chicago Tribune
December 13, 1998
New rules are being put into place in response to The Chicago Tribune's exposé of child sponsorship organizations.I-G - Miracle Merchants: "Many Can Take a Bow in Developing Nations" - Mike Dorning - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
Mike Dorning investigates the accomplishments of child sponsorship groups, if there is any.I-H - Miracle Merchants: "Tiny Fractions Bring Big Bucks" - Mike Dorning - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
Mike Dorning reveals that the child sponsorship organization, Childreach, uses fake names for the potential ...I-I - Miracle Merchants: "A Year's Schooling Wasted For the Lack of $9" - Mike Dorning - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
The Chicago Tribune sponsors a young boy, Pierre Richard, through Childreach, who is getting the backlash from the ...I-J - Miracle Merchants: "Playing With Numbers to Bolster Their Pleas" - Mike Dorning - Chicago Tribune
March 15, 1998
Mike Dorning reveals how child sponsorship organizations use statistics to make situations seem more urgent.Reaction- "The Road to Reform" - Lisa Anderson - Chicago Tribune | Save the Children Redirects Staffers to Closely Monitor Individual Cases
December 31, 1998
Lisa Anderson explains how Save the Children is changing their organization due to The Chicago Tribune's series "The ...II-A - Miracle Merchants: "The Copper-Tinted, $10 Million Office Center Exudes an..." - David Jackson - Chicago Tribune
March 22, 1998
David Jackson investigates the legitimacy of the Christian Children's Fund.Reaction- "Child-Sponsor Groups to Track Benefits Better" - Lisa Anderson and Mike Dorning - Chicago Tribune | New Rules Would Require More Documentation
June 14, 1998
Lisa Anderson and Mike Dorning discuss the changes child sponsorship organizations are making after the series "The ...I-"Bill Collector Terror Tactics: 'Push Them Till They Break'" - Task Force - Chicago Tribune | Agencies operate by their own rules
April 7, 1974
First of the Task Force series by Pamela Zekman, William Crawford, William Gaines and Robert Unger for Bill Collectors.Follow-Up: "Bill Collection Law Is Signed" - Pamela Zekman and William Gaines - Chicago Tribune
September 9, 1974
Due to The Tribune series revealing bill collectors' abuse, a new law was passed to change that."A Bill Collector and His Victim—Applying the Screws" - Pamela Zekman and William Gaines - Chicago Tribune
April 7, 1974
An undercover Tribune reporter training to be an employee at a bill collection company sees the horrible way they ..."'Don't Be Easy on Her, Step On Her'" - Task Force - Robert Unger and William Crawford - Chicago Tribune
April 7, 1974
Task Force series by Pamela Zekman, William Crawford, William Gaines and Robert Unger on Bill Collectors.Follow-Up: "2 Seeking to Curb Collector Abuses" - Pamela Zekman and Robert Unger - Chicago Tribune | Proposals Drafted
April 14, 1974
Task Force series by Pamela Zekman, William Crawford, William Gaines and Robert Unger on Bill Collectors.II-"Bill Collector's Tactics: 'Everything We Do Here is Borderline Illegal'" - Task Force - Chicago Tribune
April 8, 1974
Second of the Task Force series by Pamela Zekman, William Crawford, William Gaines and Robert Unger for Bill Collectors.III-"Federal Jury to Investigate Bill Collectors" - Task Force - Chicago Tribune
April 9, 1974
Third of the Task Force series by Pamela Zekman, William Crawford, William Gaines and Robert Unger for Bill Collectors.IV-"Fear: The Collectors' Trump Card" - Task Force - Chicago Tribune | Threats Rarely Materialize
April 10, 1974
Fourth of the Task Force series by Pamela Zekman, William Crawford, William Gaines and Robert Unger for Bill Collectors.V-"Bill Collectors Here Show No Fear of the Law" - Task Force - Chicago Tribune | Strict Controls in 26 Other States
April 11, 1974
Last of the Task Force series by Pamela Zekman, William Crawford, William Gaines and Robert Unger for Bill Collectors.Follow-Up: "Bill Collection Firm Is Sued by Carey" - William Gaines and Daniel Egler - Chicago Tribune | Trying to Close It
August 14, 1974
Debt collector Marshall Zeidman is forced to shut down his business due to unauthorized practice.Follow-Up: "Walker is Urged to Sign Legislation Regulating Bill Collection Agencies" - Pamela Zekman and William Gaines
July 7, 1974
Governor Walker is being urged to sign a legislation to put certain debt collection agencies out of business.Gunter Wallraff's "The Undesirable Journalist"
1979"Their Men in Washington" - Ken Silverstein - Harper's | Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire
July 1, 2007
Silverstein's undercover report on the ways in which lobbyists help dictatorial regimes gain favor in Washington. ..."Welfare Hotel Families: Life on the Edge" - Philip Shenon - New York Times
October 31, 1983
Shenon randomly picked out a welfare hotel and moved in for three days and nights to get a sense of what life was ...IV-"Working for Uncle Sam" - C. S. S. - New York World | The Story of a Woman Clerk in the Pension Office; Like a "Grown-Up" Schoolroom
March 16, 1890
Journalist writes about her experience working in a pension office."The State of Secrecy" - Kyle Niederpruem - Indianapolis Star and News
February 22, 1998
"A joint effort A group of newspapers - The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne, The Evansville Courier, the Star Press of ..."Conflicting Laws, Opinions, Stir Questions About Death Records" - Kyle Niederpruem - Indianapolis Star and News
February 22, 1998
Article examines the controversy in the state at the time on whether death records should be made public. (A ..."Access Denied" - Chris Davis and Matthew Doig - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
February 7, 2004
Thirty Florida newspapers, including the Sarasota Herald Tribune, joined forces for a week in January 2004 to test ..."Inside the Desert Storm Mortuary" - Jonathan Franklin - San Francisco Bay Guardian
March 26, 1991
Franklin poses as a mortician to gain entry to the mortuary for the dead soldiers of Operation Desert Storm, 1991."Sky Harbor Security Risks" - Lisa Fletcher - KNXV-TV Phoenix Transcript and Clips
July 20, 2007
KNXV-TV Phoenix reporter Lisa Fletcher and her staff went undercover at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to ..."Contaminated Water" - Joel Grover and Matt Goldberg - KNBC-Los Angeles
April 24, 2008
From the 2009 IRE investigative award citation: "Joel Grover and Matt Goldberg embarked on an exhaustive ..."Peddling Dreams" - Alix M. Freedman - Wall Street Journal | A Marketing Giant Uses Its Sales Prowess to Profit on Poverty -- Thorn EMI's REntal Centers Push Sofas, Rings, VCRs tothe Poor at High Rates -- Repos and 'Couch Payments'
September 22, 1993
In 1993, Alix Freedman took out a rental contract from Rent-a-Center to learn how the system worked and also ..."Scarecrow Cops" - Dick J. Reavis - Texas Monthly | Sometimes the only difference between an ex-con and a security guard is a uniform.
May 1, 1982
Dick Reavis went undercover as a felon to try to get hired in the security industry."Media Law: Keep Your Distance: There Is Often a Fine Line Between Reporting Crimes and Encouraging Criminals" - Duncan Lamont - The Guardian (UK) | Duncan Lamont Explains How to Stay on the Right Side of the Law
September 20, 2004
Duncan Lamont gives tips on how to avoid trouble with the law while reporting."My Life As a Secret Policeman" - Mark Daly - BBC News (UK)
October 21, 2003
Mark Daly, a BBC reporter, went undercover as a police officer to investigate racism within the London Police ..."At Massage Parlors, Image Fits" - Tony Horwitz and Ellen Bugher - Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
November 17, 1984
The News-Sentinel examined what happens at massage parlors, visitng four of the city's licensed facilities and found ..."Reporter's notebook: Going undercover inside Bangladesh garment factory" - Holly Williams - CBS News
May 23, 2013
Reporters from CBS News went undercover as buyers in Dhaka, Bangladesh to reveal the harsh working conditions in ..."Anthropologist's 'Dick Tracy moment' plays role in arrest of suspected kidney trafficker" - Daily News
July 24, 2009
Undercover anthropologist, Nancy Scheper-Hughes exposed a global human organ trafficking business that had been ..."WUSA9 undercover, overnight taxi sting nets ten times more violations than reported, on average, by District inspectors" - Russ Ptacek and Nadia Pflaum - WUSA 9
August 5, 2013
WUSA 9 investigates an undercover taxi sting to reveal that it involved ten times more violations than the DC Taxi ..."Washington DC taxicabs: 20 tested, all 20 fail WUSA9 undercover overnight sting" - Nadia Pflaum and Russ Ptacek - WUSA 9
August 1, 2013
WUSA 9's investigative team went undercover to expose taxi drivers violating District taxi regulations."Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War" by James Risen
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