Jim Morris

Senior Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
jmorris@publicintegrity.org
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Jim Morris has been a journalist since 1978, specializing in coverage of the environment and public health. He has won more than 50 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, the Sigma Delta Chi award, and five Texas Headliners awards. He directed a global investigation of the asbestos industry that won the first-place John B. Oakes award for environmental reporting from Columbia University in 2011 and an IRE Medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has worked for newspapers in Texas and California as well as publications such as U.S. News & World Report and Congressional Quarterly in Washington. This is his second stint at the Center.

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Toxic exposures on the job cause the premature deaths of some 49,000 Americans each year, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administrat

Recent outbreaks of food-borne illness left American consumers on edge — and largely in the dark about federal enforcement. The Food and Dru

The Central Intelligence Agency maintains more than 10 million pages of declassified, post-World War II documents, covering everything from

Keeping a contractor performance database out of public reach is like “not allowing a parent to see their child’s report card,” a critic say

The Agriculture Department says it makes farm subsidy data available to anyone who asks, but turning the data into something useful is tedio

A U.S. dam safety database is open to the public but with restrictions that make it less useful than it once was. ...

To mark Sunshine Week, open-government groups are assessing President Barack Obama’s pledge to make the federal bureaucracy more open and le

The Environmental Protection Agency is ordering clearer labels for all “spot-on” flea and tick treatments applied directly to dogs’ and cats

Gov’t database of bad doctors blocks public from seeing names

The Department of Health and Human Services maintains a “bad doctor” database, but members of the public can’t see the doctors’ names....

Sixty-two cities in the United States have been deemed “high threat urban areas” by the Department of Homeland Security, meaning they’re sus

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