Columbia Journalism Investigations Story Archive
CJI fellows produce team-based investigations with professional newsrooms on 4 beats: climate change, equity and accountability, immigration and migration and civil and human rights. Here you can find an archive of all past investigations per beat.
Climate Change
Trapped in harm’s way as climate disasters mount, The Center for Public Integrity
Too little, too late for people seeking climate relief, Type Investigations
Leaving the island: the messy, contentious reality of climate relocation, The Center for Public Integrity
Climate Change Is Killing Americans. Health Departments Aren’t Equipped To Respond, The Center for Public Integrity
Disasters are Driving a Mental Health Crisis, The Texas Tribune
Deadly Bacteria Lurk in Coastal Waters. Climate Change Increases the Risks., The Center for Public Integrity
Dangerous Heat, Unequal Consequences, The Center for Public Integrity
What Exxon knew about the Earth’s melting Arctic, The Los Angeles Times
The role a melting glacier played in Exxon's biggest disaster, The Los Angeles Times
How Obama's climate change legacy is weakened by US investment in dirty fuel, The Guardian
Obama's dirty secret: the fossil fuel projects the US littered around the world, The Guardian
Potential Export-Import Bank deals pose grave environmental threat, experts say, The Guardian
Export-Import Bank gave $8.5bn to Mexico oil firm despite deadly accidents, The Guardian
US has provided $15m in financing to supplier of mines accused of slave labor, The Guardian
"Columbia’s investigations fellowship gave me the time and guidance to do the most intensive reporting of my career to date. Not only were my colleagues and I able to piece together complicated stories exposing injustice and derelictions of duty, but we were also able to witness the effect those stories had on people and their governments."
— Dean Russell, a 2019-20 CJI investigative fellow
Equity and Accountability
How Central America’s Main Development Bank Enabled Corruption and Authoritarianism, OCCRP
‘New And Repeated Failures’: CABEI’s Many Mistakes in Funding the Agua Zarca Dam, OCCRP
The Deadly Price of Central America's Taste for Hydropower, OCCRP
In CABEI’s Relationship with South Korea, a Potential Conflict of Interest, OCCRP
Traceability of Peruvian Amazon Wood is Weakening, The Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism
Sanctioned Peruvian Loggers Reinvent Themselves, The Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism
Religious leaders on suspicion of unholy finances, The Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism
The fraudulent kingdom of God, The Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism
Holy Rollers: The Religious Leaders Using Churches to Launder Illicit Cash Across the Americas, The Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism
"I spent six months working alongside an international consortium of journalists on a major, longform project -- a rare opportunity for someone just out of school. The research and project management skills I developed have been invaluable in my work after Columbia. The fellowship program is the perfect opportunity for students who want to further hone their investigative reporting skills."
— Bianca Fortis, a 2020-21 CJI cross border data fellow
Immigration and Migration
Long Hours, Low Pay, Loneliness, and a Booming Industry, The New York Times
Company Settles With Home Health Aides Seeking Unpaid Wages for Round-the-Clock Care, Type Investigations
When Climate Change and Xenophobia Collide, The New Yorker
The Mothers Being Deported by Trump, The New Yorker
When Deportation is a Death Sentence, The New Yorker
"The Global Migration Project fellowship set me on the career path I'm currently on. It sparked my interest in the immigration beat I have been covering for four years now and gave me the tools to succeed in a national newsroom, where I have to balance magazine reporting, investigations, and news writing."
— Isabela Dias, a 2018-19 CJI global migration fellow
Civil and Human Rights
The Failure Track, ProPublica
Whose Vote Counts, PBS Frontline
More than 1 million people could lose their vote on Nov. 3. That’s the best-case scenario, USA Today
As Trump and Biden battle, election officials are running out of time, money for November, USA Today
They Should Have Done Something”: Broad Failures Fueled Wisconsin Ballot Crisis, Investigation Shows, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel