{"id":1095,"date":"2012-01-10T22:34:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T05:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebulous-oyster.flywheelsites.com\/blog\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2021-06-08T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:49:17","slug":"senior-fellow-schuster-institute-investigative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennifermargulis.net\/senior-fellow-schuster-institute-investigative\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m a Senior!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TwoLast Friday I wrote about what a hard time I’ve been having doing work<\/a>, being productive, and even going to the grocery store, ever since my mom died<\/a>.\u00a0As the outside world goes on as usual, I feel strangely disconnected.<\/p>\n

I can’t answer the question, “How are you?”<\/p>\n

How am I?<\/p>\n

Relieved the holidays are over and the new year has passed and we are ten days into January and I don’t have to drink champagne and try to put on a merry face for my kids.<\/p>\n

With the new year comes this press release that was issued last week announcing the Schuster Institute’s recent fellowship appointments.<\/p>\n

I have been awarded a senior fellowship at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But I have questions: Does being a “Senior Fellow” make me old? Male?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m grateful to have such a prestigious university endorse my work.<\/p>\n

Most people don’t realize that America has the highest maternal mortality rate of any industrialized country and among the highest infant mortality rates.<\/p>\n

I’ve been investigating what’s going wrong in our health care system\u2014and in our culture at large\u2014that is resulting in such poor outcomes.<\/p>\n

It is my hope that if the average American can see how much corporate interests are skewing our parenting decisions and hurting our babies\u2014promoting formula feeding through almost unrestricted access to labor and delivery staff in some hospitals, for example\u2014we can make motherhood and infancy safer for every American.\"Brandeis<\/p>\n

Here’s the full press release:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and the Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) in Washington, D.C. announce the launch of the Schuster Institute & Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellowships, an innovative investigative journalism collaboration with reporting on vital social justice and human rights issues as its core mission\u2014reporting now endangered in mainstream newsrooms.<\/p>\n

Based at Brandeis University\u2019s Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, the Fellowship provides talented independent reporters with a blend of funding for their projects from the FIJ and professional guidance, including editorial and research support, from the Schuster Institute.<\/p>\n

Drawing from a pool of journalists previously chosen to receive FIJ grants for their work, the Schuster Institute selected seven outstanding grant recipients as Fellows. Their selection was based on the potential impact of their projects and their demonstrated commitment to reporting about injustice.<\/p>\n

The Fellows are investigating a wide range of significant issues\u2014from undercover reporting about America\u2019s food system to the residual health effects of undetonated munitions in Laos to child sexual abuse in Orthodox Jewish communities\u2014as their work spotlights abuses of institutional power in the United States and globally.<\/p>\n

FIJ provided the new Fellows with crucial startup funds to launch their time- and resource-intensive reporting. The Schuster Institute gives them an intellectual home where professional journalists provide editorial and strategic guidance and other support, including extensive efforts to promote and magnify the power of their findings using the Institute\u2019s impact journalism strategy.<\/p>\n

Newly hired Schuster Institute Executive Editor Melissa Ludtke and Founding Director Florence Graves are developing the Institute\u2019s expanded fellowship program. (These new Fellows are joining seven other journalists who are already part of the Institute\u2019s Ethics & Justice Investigative Journalism Fellowship Program.) Ludtke served for 13 years as editor of the Nieman Reports at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and is a former Time correspondent and Sports Illustrated reporter.<\/p>\n

Scott Carney<\/strong> is a California-based investigative journalist and author whose reporting on crime and corruption has lead him across the world to trace the trade and sale of humans and their body parts. He is the author of \u201cThe Red Market: On the Trail of the World\u2019s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers\u201d (2011) and a contributing editor at Wired.<\/p>\n

Karen Coates & Jerry Redfern<\/strong> are a print and photojournalist team who reside in New Mexico but report primarily from Southeast Asia. Their recent work has focused on Cambodia and Laos, including the severe danger to Laotian farmers whose fields are\u2014literally\u2014potential bomb fields of unexploded ordnance left over from four billion pounds of bombs dropped on Laos by the United States between 1964 and 1973 during the Vietnam War. Up to 30 percent of those bombs didn’t explode, and may remain a danger in the soil today. This year, ThingsAsian Press will publish their book \u201cEternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rebekah Cowell<\/strong> is a North Carolina-based investigative journalist whose work is focused on low-income, minority communities who live next to hazardous waste facilities but have no platforms to voice their concerns about diseases related to pollution exposures. She is currently working on a six-part environmental justice series underwritten by a George Polk Grant for Investigative Reporting.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Margulis<\/strong> is an Oregon-based author, lecturer, narrative nonfiction writer, and editor who is investigating the overlooked dangers of some mainstream child-rearing practices, especially those where scientific evidence has been brushed aside in favor of special interests. Scribner will publish her next book, The Business of Baby<\/em><\/a>, in 2013.<\/p>\n

Tracie McMillan<\/strong> is a New York-based investigative journalist whose reporting exposes economic injustice. For her forthcoming book, \u201cThe American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table,\u201d McMillian went undercover to learn what it takes to stay well-nourished in low-income America.<\/p>\n

Hella Winston<\/strong> is a New York-based investigative reporter, author, and sociologist currently focusing on serious abuses of power in Orthodox Jewish communities. She is the author of the book \u201cUnchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels,\u201d for which she gained nearly unprecedented access and insight into highly insular Hasidic sects.
\nWho we are:<\/p>\n

The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, founded in in 2004, is the nation\u2019s first nonprofit investigative reporting center based at a university, and the only one with a central focus on social justice and human rights. The Schuster Institute launched its Ethics & Justice Fellowship program in 2009\u2014and has now expanded the program in collaboration with the Fund for Investigative Journalism\u2014to support independent journalists covering vital issues in the public interest. Staff reporters and Fellows publish their work in a wide variety of outlets and cover topics such as: human trafficking and modern-day slavery; failures in public health care systems; fraud and corruption in international adoption; political asylum seekers in the United States; and political prosecutions in the federal justice system.<\/p>\n

The Fund for Investigative Journalism was founded in 1969 by the late Philip M. Stern, who was convinced small amounts of money invested in the work of determined journalists would yield enormous results in the fight against racism, poverty, corporate greed, and governmental corruption. Stern\u2019s theory proved true in the Fund\u2019s first year, when a tiny grant of $250 enabled reporter Seymour Hersh to begin investigating a tip concerning a U.S. Army massacre at the Vietnamese village of My Lai. A subsequent Fund grant of $2,000 allowed Hersh to finish reporting the story. During the following three decades, the Fund has awarded more than $1.5 million in grants to freelance reporters, authors and small publications, enabling the publication of more than 700 stories and broadcasts and some 50 books. Fund-supported projects have won a wide array of journalistic honors, including Pulitzer Prizes, National Magazine Awards, the Raymond Clapper Award, the George Polk Award, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, and many others. The Fund\u2019s Executive Director is Sandy Bergo, a former award-winning television investigative producer and freelance writer.<\/p>\n

Pretty cool, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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