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Bob Carty, Canada, is a radio documentary producer with CBC Radio whose in-depth reports can be heard on The Sunday Edition and The Current.

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Carty received a 1995 Edward R. Murrow Award and a Gold Medal from the International New York Radio Festival for his documentary on bio-piracy. Also in 1995, his documentary, Kevin’s Sentence, about the impact of drunk driving on families and the criminal justice system, won a Peabody Award, a Gabriel Award, and a United Nations Gold Medal. In 2004, Carty was a recipient of the Canadian Science Writers award for an investigation into illegal clinical trials and that same year was a member of the CBC team which won the Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association for a series on adverse drug reactions. Carty is a founder for the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX). He also was a correspondent in Central America, reporting for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), and The Christian Science Monitor. He has written books on Canadian foreign aid, human rights in Chile, on multinational mining companies and was a team member of ICIJ’s The Water Barons.

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Investigations Around the World

By Simona Raetz | September 28, 2011, 5:33 pm

In this week’s round-up: In Chile, telephone surveillance by police is invading the privacy of ordinary citizens; In Iraq, recruiters for extremist organizations increasingly target poor women to carry out suicide missions; and in the U.S. , Florida school officials redirected millions of federal stimulus dollars – meant to improve poor-performing schools -- to delaying layoffs and budget cuts. Read More
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Investigations Around the World

By Simona Raetz | August 25, 2011, 4:46 pm

In this week’s round-up: One of the world’s largest diamond mines, in Zimbabwe, is also a torture camp; in Colombia, people close the National Narcotics Agency are found in possession of confiscated goods from drug lords and the mafia; and western-made computer spy equipment is legally exported to authoritarian countries who use it to monitor human rights activists. Read More
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New ICIJ Members

By Simona Raetz | August 15, 2011, 2:32 pm

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has added 15 new reporters to its roster of more than 100 journalists in 50 countries. Read More