Rockaway residents ignore mounds of soggy donated clothing in the middle of the street and wait for services to be restored to their homes. Photo | Hella Winston.
On Friday, November 9, Schuster Institute Senior...
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By Michael Blanding and Lindsay Markel, The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism
The Boston Globe Magazine's cover story for Sunday, November 20, 2011, is a Schuster Institute investigation of a longstanding problem facing Massachusetts inmates who claim innocence: No legal right or even a specific legal procedure to test...
(8) Comments | Posted September 22, 2011 | 10:10 AM
By Lindsay Markel, Assistant Director, Justice Brandeis Innocence Project, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, Brandeis University
In response to a last-minute appeal by attorneys representing Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis, the Supreme Court refused to stay his execution. But the controversy over his case -- and the issues it...
(10) Comments | Posted August 5, 2011 | 3:06 PM
By Erin Siegal, Fellow, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University
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By Sophie Elsner, program associate, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
On Monday, June 27, government officials, law enforcement agents, advocates, and journalists will head to the...
(1) Comments | Posted May 2, 2011 | 7:29 PM
"Just think, they sold me like a pig or a dog," a young woman cries to documentarians in the riveting MSNBC special Sex Slaves -- UK that will premiere in the U.S. on Sunday, May 22, at 9 p.m. eastern time. Adapted from the Channel 4 series The...
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By Lindsay Markel, assistant director and research specialist, the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. Research assistant Sean Petterson contributed to this article.
Sunday's Super Bowl seemed to be on...
(3) Comments | Posted December 15, 2010 | 11:19 AM
The nonprofit Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism is dedicating a gift of funding to support a reporter's effort to gather and tell these stories.
By E. Benjamin Skinner, senior fellow, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
In its code of ethics, the Society of...
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By Anne Driscoll, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University
The woman portrayed by Hilary Swank in the upcoming Hollywood movie talks with Anne Driscoll about her remarkable story of courage, faith and yes, conviction. Her brother believed in her and, in return, she achieved...(0) Comments | Posted September 20, 2010 | 9:53 PM
In his second dispatch, "The Vote Comes to Afghanistan's Peaceful Heartland" for Foreign Policy, September 20, Schuster Institute Senior Fellow E. Benjamin Skinner reports on the current political climate for women in Bamiyan province where he interviewed Bamiyan's Governor Hariba Sarabi outside a polling station at...
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The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University cosponsored a first-ever United Nations panel discussion about how the news media is...
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By E.J. Graff, Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University
What's more heartbreaking than this: A group of parents storm a government office, demanding the ability to communicate with their children. The parents say that, a...
(0) Comments | Posted November 15, 2012 | 10:41 AM