
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 30, 2008 — The Center for Public Integrity has added two new editors and three new senior journalists to its editorial team, which will expand the Center’s scope of investigative journalism and incorporate more use of multimedia resources. The new hires possess a collective diversity of investigative journalism experience with expertise on national security, environmental, criminal justice, and energy issues.
LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY, Sept. 13, 2008 — A New York Times series about deadly Chinese counterfeit drugs sold around the world and a TV4 Sweden investigation into Russian overfishing in the Barents Sea have shared the first Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting. Formerly the ICIJ Award, the prize was renamed this year in honor of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was slain by militants in Pakistan in 2002.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2008 — According to a new Center investigation, Perils of the New Pesticides, pyrethrins and pyrethroids were responsible for more than 26 percent of all major and moderate human incidents involving pesticides in the United States in 2007, up from just 15 percent in 1998 — a 67 percent increase. This is based on an analysis of adverse reaction reports filed with the Environmental Protection Agency by pesticide manufacturers.
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2008 — The Center for Public Integrity’s Board of Directors has elected Marianne Szegedy-Maszak as its new board chair. Szegedy-Maszak, a former contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report, has more than 20 years of journalism experience and has served on the Center’s board since 1996. She will succeed former board chair Geneva Overholser, who became the new director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication on July 1.
WASHINGTON April 15, 2008 — The Center for Public Integrity has won three 2007 Sigma Delta Chi awards in journalism for three of its investigations. Collateral Damage: Human Rights and U.S. Military Aid after 9/11 won first place in the online investigative reporting independent category; Wasting Away: Superfund's Toxic Legacy won first place in the online non-deadline reporting independent category; and States of Disclosure: Tracking the private interests of public officials won in the online public service in journalism independent category. With these three awards, the Center has now won a total of eleven SPJ awards since its founding in 1989.
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 3, 2008 — The Center for Public Integrity is pleased to announce that David E. Kaplan has been named the new Director of its International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Kaplan, who has been an ICIJ member for more than eight years, served until June 2007 as chief investigative correspondent at U.S. News & World Report, where he wrote the magazine's popular Bad Guys blog.
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 25, 2008 — The Center for Public Integrity has won the 2007 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) award for online investigative journalism for Collateral Damage: Human Rights and U.S. Military Aid after 9/11. This recognition marks the eleventh time since 1997 that the Center has either won first place or was a finalist for an IRE award.
WASHINGTON, D.C. January 23, 2008 — Leading up to the five-year anniversary of the Iraq war, the Center for Public Integrity has released the first analysis of its kind, Iraq – The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War. This comprehensive examination of top Bush administration officials' statements over a two-year period shows how top officials galvanized public opinion in the run-up to the March 18, 2003 invasion of Iraq. The project's chronology provides a framework for examining how the administration's false statements led the country into the war in Iraq. The results of this analysis question the repeated assertions of Bush administration officials that they were merely the unwitting victims of bad intelligence.

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