China’s most famous investigative journalist works out of a closet-sized room on the second floor of an anonymous office building on the outskirts of Beijing. That he works at all is a wonder.
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- Overdoses, bedsores, broken bones: What happened when a private-equity firm sought to care for society’s most vulnerableRoughly 25,000 patients were exposed to increasing health risks at an underfunded nursing-home chain, an investigation from The Washington Post found. The ManorCare chain was owned by Carlyle Group, one of the wealthiest private-equity firms in the world. ManorCare had struggled financially until it filed for bankruptcy in March, and in the previous five years, […]
- Failure To Deliver: An investigation into the hidden dangers of out-of-hospital deliveriesHome birth is a growing movement among expectant mothers who opt to reject hospitals and the sterile environment of maternity wards. But the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and GateHouse Media found that babies born in out-of-hospital deliveries are twice as likely to die as babies born in a hospital. Reporters investigating the out-of-hospital birth industry talked to […]
- Case Cleared: How Rape Goes Unpunished in AmericaNewsy, ProPublica and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting found that dozens of law enforcement agencies nationwide are using a little-known case designation that inflates the number of rape cases the departments appear to have solved. Based on data from 60 police agencies across the country, the newsrooms found that police are clearing rape […]