The moonlighting ex-reporter that aided a project on racial disparities in Oregon courts was employed weekdays at a job working for the government. Reporter Shasta Kearns Moore talks with Poynter’s Kelly McBride about the ethics of double-duty, and about whether reporter Kate Willson can expect to keep her day job.
Since 2009, InvestigateWest’s journalism has directly led to a healthier, safer and more transparent Pacific Northwest, including two first-in-the-nation state laws to protect the environment and workers’ health.
What you’ll find below is a sampling of the ways that our journalism organization has made an impact.
Our investigation into toxic road pollution and its effects on children’s health at school found nearly 30 public schools and more than 120 day cares within 500 feet of major roads in Washington, where health researchers say traffic pollution can aggravate asthma, increase absenteeism, and harm developing immune systems. The series prompted Seattle Schools to begin notifying all principals of unhealthy air days and advise them to keep children indoors for recess. The district also announced new plans to upgrade a decades-old ventilation system at John Marshall Junior High to better protect student health. Using InvestigateWest’s reporting and methodology, newsrooms in San Diego and Ohio replicated our story, finding dozens of schools in the danger zone and equally lax oversight about where facilities get built.
InvestigateWest has won nearly three-dozen journalism awards since we began publishing in 2010. Here is a list, starting with the most recent:
InvestigateWest’s Olivia Henry and Kate Martin won a Society of Environmental Journalists third place award for their investigation of traffic pollution near schools and day cares in Washington.
InvestigateWest won a Northwest Excellence in Journalism first place award in the online innovation category for the series “Boeing’s Lobbying Campaign.”
InvestigateWest with the staff of KUOW won a Northwest Excellence in Journalism first place award in the radio news special report category for their investigation of law enforcement and missing person cases that involve dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.
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A City of Seattle study shows that white people are much more likely than minorities to enjoy a rich canopy of trees in their neighborhood. The news comes as the Seattle City Council considers whether to establish a system of permits and fees for cutting down trees to preserve and possibly redistribute the Emerald City’s shrinking emerald umbrella.
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