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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
Michael Montgomery, United States, is a reporter and radio producer for the Berkeley-based Center for Investigative Reporting and its California Watch unit.
Michael Montgomery, United States
He is also a contributor to KQED Public Radio and American RadioWorks. A veteran of radio, television and newspapers, Michael has reported from Europe, Africa and Latin America on topics such as human rights, war crimes tribunals, corruption and the nuclear black market. In California, he has reported extensively on the state’s criminal justice and prison systems. Michael began his career as a newspaper reporter covering the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and wars in former Yugoslavia. He was a staff correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and contributor to the Los Angeles Times. Michael also worked as a television producer for CBS News and a senior correspondent for American RadioWorks. Michael’s work has garnered numerous national and international prizes, including an Overseas Press Club Award, IRE Certificate and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, the top award in U.S. broadcast Journalism.
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