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Columbia fellows and Toronto Star reporters reviewed of thousands of pages of bankruptcy documents and public records in three countries and interviewed dozens of sources in Canada, the US, the UK and Israel - including the much of the rotating cast of players involved in the deal.
How every investor lost money on Trump Tower Toronto (but Donald Trump made millions anyway)
CJS '17 grads and Cross-Border Data Fellows, Keenan Chen, Alex Mierjeski, Inti Pacheco and Manuela Andreoni contributed to the reporting by Propublica, WNYC and The New Yorker that detailed how Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. were close to being charged with misleading prospective buyers of units in the Trump Soho.
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud
Kevin Sun '17 M.S. Data examined how Australia's propaganda campaign was used to discourage migrants from reaching their shores. What started as a Medium blog for one of his classes ended up running as a story for Quartz.
Australia is making covert propaganda videos to scare off asylum seekers
Manuela Andreoni and Inti Pacheco, both CJS '17 Data concentration, worked alongside Adam Davidson, a staff writer for the New Yorker, on his investigation into Trump's foreign deals.
Trump's Business Of Corruption
Ana Mendez, a graduate and a Brown Institute Magic Grant recipient, along with her partners Alfonso Grimaldo and Gaspar Garcia de Paredes, created a platform to address the data deficit in Panama through El Tabulario by Nueva Nacion. El Tabulario is the first accessible public data repository in the country.
El Tabulario
Prof. Giannina Segnini and data students did a six-month investigation of the loosely regulated cruise ship industry.
Read the Univision series.
Five students collaborated with journalists around the world, mining information and stories on shipping-related topics.
Read about their work.
Lydia Namubiru '16 M.S. Data will return to Uganda and mentor others to teach and improve their data journalism skills.
Read more about Lydia.
Sonali Prasad ’16 M.S. is a Brown Institute Scholar and will be an Energy & Environment Reporting Fellow.
Read more about her work at the J-School.
Alex Daugherty '16 M.S. Stabile, sold his Master’s Project to The New York Times.
Learn how his reporting came together.