Weekly Watchdog: Transportation Safety in Shambles

Home  |  Investigations  |  PaperTrail Blog  |  Latest from the Center  |  Support Our Work September 29, 2010   Transportation Safety in Shambles   Share on Facebook  |     Share on Twitter This week saw the unveiling of Breakdown: Traveling Dangerously in America, a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity and Carnegie-Knight News21 project at Arizona State University. This 23-story multimedia investigation of transportation safety was published in The Washington Post and on MSNBC. The bottom line: the National Transportation Safety Board is a paper tiger and its recommendations have been ignored by the industry for decades at the cost of thousands of American lives. This important investigation was largely reported and written by 12 student journalists at universities across the country. The Center supplied data analysis and editorial support for the project.   Coal Industry Gets First Look at Cancer Study   Share on Facebook  |     Share on Twitter Seldom is an industry’s clout so clear cut in Washington. A Center investigation disclosed this week that a long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published this fall -- but only after a mining industry group, represented by the Washington lobbying powerhouse Patton Boggs, finishes a pre-publication review of the report. Critics have cried foul, saying the industry has no right to get a sneak peek at the publicly funded study which has been the center of an epic, 15-year court battle. New Funding from McCormick Foundation   Share on Facebook  |     Share on Twitter I’m pleased to announce that the Center has been awarded a $150,000 two-year grant from the McCormick Foundation to help fund collaborative investigations with members of the Investigative News Network (INN). The Center will use these funds for investigative reporting on the environment, public health, public accountability, federal and state lobbying, military spending and financial disclosure. We are very grateful for this important support. Center's 20th Anniversary Gala   Share on Facebook  |     Share on Twitter The Center for Public Integrity is celebrating two decades of investigative reporting with a gala dinner on Thursday October 21, 2010. The celebration will take place at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., at 6:45pm. We’ll be honoring the Center’s visionary founder, Charles Lewis. ABC's Christiane Amanpour will MC the event. You can buy tickets online here. All proceeds will go to funding the Center’s work. Improved Information Feeds   Share on Facebook  |     Share on Twitter You can now add the latest Center stories and blog posts to your favorite RSS reader, like Google Reader. You can check out and tap into all our offerings here. Copy and paste the URLs into your RSS reader, or click the Google button to quickly add our feeds.   Until next week, Bill Buzenberg Executive Director       The Center for Public Integrity® 910 17th Street NW | Suite 700 | Washington, DC 20006 | USA | (202) 466-1300 Note: If you wish to discontinue receiving these types of communications, please notify us online. Our records will be updated within 10 business days. This e-mail was sent to ignoble.experiment@arconati.us. To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list.

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