Winners of a 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award, a 2024 National Headliner's Award, a 2023 and 2022 Best in Business Award, a 2021 IRE Award and a 2020 Peabody Award.
Columbia Journalism Investigations is the school’s postgraduate reporting program. We employ recent graduates and pair them with experienced journalists to produce high-impact investigative stories in partnership with leading news organizations. What makes CJI distinctive is our location within a world-class research university, allowing for collaborations with scholars. Operating as a newsroom, CJI has several reporting teams that tackle domestic and global investigations into critical issues of public interest, including climate, immigration and civil rights.
Learn more about our recent projects in the 2024 CJI Annual Report.
Our Featured Projects
We collaborated with NPR, The Texas Newsroom, The California Newsroom and Public Health Watch on this investigation into worker heat deaths.
Read the NPR story.
Listen to The Texas Standard special.
Read about our reporting’s impact.
We collaborated with ProPublica on this investigation into the online-dating industry’s handling of offline sexual violence.
Read the ProPublica piece on industry behemoth Match Group.
Take a look at the industry’s patchwork of responses.
Read about our reporting’s impact.
We collaborated with the Center for Public Integrity and Futuro Media on this investigation into the disaster restoration industry's handling of its immigrant workforce's post-disaster toxic exposures.
Read the four-part print series.
Listen to the audio documentary.
Read the lessons learned covering this new climate-fueled industry.
OUR RECENT STORIES
DAs Promised to Help Wrongfully Convicted New Yorkers. In Many Cases, They Made Things Worse, New York Focus
We Investigated the DA Units That Review Innocence Claims. Here’s What We Learned, New York Focus
When Conviction Integrity Units Exonerate the Innocent, Prosecutors Escape Blame, New York Focus
Explore our archive of groundbreaking published stories produced by our postgraduate fellows.
Learn more about the CJI teams here.
Our Editorial Team
- Kristen Lombardi, CJI program director and editor
- Mica Rosenberg, Global migration team adviser
- Giannina Segnini, Cross border data team adviser
Our Investigative Team
- Curtis Brodner, '24 M.S. Stabile
- Oishika Neogi, '24 M.S. Stabile
- Willow Higgins, '23 M.A. Politics
- Ryan Kost, '23 M.A. Politics
Our Global Migration Team
- Jazzmin Jiwa, '24 M.S.
- Carla Mandiola, '24 M.S. Data
Our Cross-Border Team
- Johanna Hansel, '24 M.S.
- Carla Samon Ros, '24 M.S.
Fellowships
CJI’s postgraduate reporting fellowships are exclusive opportunities open only to recent M.A. and M.S. graduates of the Columbia Journalism School. For more information on the application process, please contact Career Services.
"CJI gave me the vaunted and otherwise all-but-impossible chance to practice crucial skills and develop invaluable new ones while producing urgent and impactful news stories – all within the highly supportive atmosphere of top tier professional guidance and media partnerships."
— Julia Shipley, a 2021-22 CJI fellow
Our Funders
CJI’s major funders include donors to the Investigative Reporting Resource, the Endeavor Foundation, the Knight Foundation and the Columbia Journalism School.
The Investigative Reporting Resource is a pool of general operating support that underwrites the reporting of CJI’s teams of postgraduate fellows. The purpose of this resource is to advance in-depth reporting in the public interest.
Read the school's philanthropic donations policy (PDF) to learn more about the principles that apply.