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On KQED Forum, CIR's Robert Rosenthal talks about the Chauncey Bailey Project.
Loretta Tofani wins the Kelly award for "American Imports, Chinese Deaths." Read the backstory.
The Chauncey Bailey Project and Loretta Tofani win IRE awards. 
Tofani wins the SPJ Sigma Delta Chi award. CIR co-founder Dan Noyes wins SPJ award.
The Economist calls Exposed a "gripping new book." |  Sarah Palin promotes the self-reliance of her state, but she doesn’t mention the mobile command communications vehicle, bought with federa ... |
 |  The Chauncey Bailey Project reports that Sgt. Derwin Longmire, the lead detective assigned to investigate Chauncey Bailey's slaying, is a s ... |
 |  The community organization ACORN is under fire for alleged voter registration fraud, and has been a longtime target for conservatives. Repub ... |
 | Who's paying to influence voters in your state? Independent groups are pouring millions of dollars into election ad campaigns nationwide. A ... |
 | An obscure nonprofit has flooded campaign battleground states with an inflammatory DVD on radical Islam. Critics say the charity is trying t ... |
 | Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and running mate John McCain have trumpeted her opposition to earmarks like the infamous “bridge to nowhere,” bu ... |
 | It was the first truly inflammatory anti-Obama ad to air on television, produced by the mysterious Coalition Against Anti-Christian Rhetoric ... |
 | It could be the Swift Boat ad of 2008. A conservative group pops out of nowhere with a hard-hitting TV ad against Obama. A billionaire foots ... |
 | The Service Employees International Union, besides representing 2 million workers, is one of the most active and powerful political organiza ... |
 | Election season is heating up, as independent groups from across the political spectrum launch new ad campaigns targeting candidates for pre ... |
 | Two politically opposed veterans' advocacy groups—Vets for Freedom and Vote Vets—are battling for voters. NPR and CIR look beyond the po ... |
 | CIR and NPR report on how nonprofits are quietly mobilizing to influence the 2008 elections. One network of liberal activist groups, started ... |
 |  A secretly recorded police video captures Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and two associates discussing journalist Chauncey Bai ... |
 | Now that the presidential primaries are finished, independent political groups are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads to in ... |
 | Independent political groups are already trying to influence the presidential campaign with TV ads and automated phone calls. Candidates Joh ... |
 |  War correspondent Anna Badkhen recently returned to Iraq—her 10th trip since 2003—and wrote a series of journals for The Muckraker. Duri ... |
 | A nonprofit with ties to Hillary Clinton is under fire for running apparently illegal "robocalls" ahead of next week's North Carolina primar ... |
 | Bo Xilai, the son of one of modern China's most influential leaders, has thus far led a life of privilege and entitlement. It's also been ma ... |
 | For two years, the Bush administration has tried to scuttle a federal human rights lawsuit that threatens to embarrass one of China’s top ... |
