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1113:(ALEC), in the American legislative process through the use of so-called "model bills" or copycat bills. Data journalists, using a "unique-data analysis engine built on hundreds of cloud computers", compared "millions of words of legislation" from the LegiScan service, found that, from 2010 through 2018, legislators have introduced ALEC model bills 2,900 times. Six hundred of these became law. The data identified about 10,000 bills introduced in all American states, that included almost identical language. The investigation called the widespread successful use of these model bills spanning an eight-year period—which the report described as "fill-in-the-blank legislation"—amounts to "perhaps the largest unreported special-interest campaign in American politics." Journalists wrote that copycat bills drive agendas in almost "every statehouse" and touch almost every area of public policy. The data revealed how the traditional way of writing legislation "from scratch" had been supplanted by the use of ALEC bills in many states. Mississippi—with a total population of less than three million—has had more "model bills", that were written outside Mississippi, introduced into its Legislature than in any other state" in the United States. 1044:(COFAV)—also known as "American Homeless Veterans"—in 1993 and then the Center for American Homeless Veterans—also known as the "Association for Homeless and Disabled Veterans". During the 2000s, Hampton said he had "hosted more than 100 members of Congress across 196 veterans shelter-themed forums in 46 cities" in rallies for these non-profits. Kleiner revealed that according to the 2015 Center for American Homeless Veterans' tax returns, "it provided just $ 200 in grants to other organizations out of $ 2.5 million in overall expenditures, the vast majority of which paid telemarketers." This report confirms findings from the investigation by the 1179:

lobby Congress. We don't petition the Federal Election Commission. We don't pretend we have legions of individuals contributing money to support our work. Our paid membership amounts to around six thousand people; we'd certainly be happy to have more... as for Mr. Fund, back in the days when campaign finance issues were of concern to him, he sought us out to lend authority to his writings on John Huang and quoted us in an Oct. 29, 1996, column on the subject. Is it Mr. Fund's view that when he wrote about various DNC campaign finance violations, he was trying to hoodwink federal officials into thinking that people cared about the issue?

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among others. According to a 2017 CPI analysis, "Outreach Calling, raised more than $ 118 million on behalf of about two dozen charities from 2011 to 2015", retaining $ 106 million. This left c. 10.3 percent or $ 12.2 million, for the non-profit charities and those they serve - homeless veterans, breast cancer survivors, disabled police officers, and children with leukemia. In the United States, it is legal for for-profit telemarketers to keep 90% of the donations they solicit as long as they to not "mislead prospective donors" or "lie to them about how their contributions will be used", according to

227:—whom he had met through his television work— to serve on the board of directors of the nascent CPI. All three had grown dissatisfied with what was being done in the name of investigative journalism by established news organizations. They chose the name public integrity as a way of underlying the "ultimate purpose of investigative journalism" which is "to hold those in power accountable and to inform the public about significant distortions of the truth." In their tenth anniversary Annual Report Piller described their first meetings in their "Boardroom—the cheap seats at the Baltimore Orioles game. 5041: 145: 1163:, Fund argued that a "stealth campaign" by "eight liberal foundations" fomented a false sense of public demand for new restrictions on the financing of public campaigns. Fund singled out CPI as a front group pushing Pew's agenda, arguing that "reporters are used to attempts to hoodwink officials into thinking an issue is genuinely popular, and they frequently expose them. But when "good government" groups like the Center for Public Integrity engage in the same tactics, journalists usually ignore it." 715:, reported that nearly half of White House trade officials studied over a fifteen-year period became lobbyists for countries or overseas corporations after retirement. According to Lewis, it "prompted a Justice Department ruling, a General Accounting Office report, a Congressional hearing, was cited by four presidential candidates in 1992 and was partly responsible for an executive order in January 1993 by President Clinton, placing a lifetime ban on foreign lobbying by White House trade officials." 5559: 5547: 1027:?", and the March 31, 2016 article "Senators seek better conflict disclosures for scientific articles." In this investigative series which was co-published with Vice, journalist revealed how research backed by industry has opened debates on asbestos and arsenic with some of the paid scientists saying that "there are 'safe' levels of asbestos despite statements to the contrary from the World Health Organization and many other august bodies". 1070:-based Midwest Publishing – revealed that "just 10 percent of all donations" go to the Center for American Homeless Veterans. The BBB investigation also revealed that from September 2014 to September 2016, Outreach Calling and Midwest Publishing "collected nearly $ 5 million, with about $ 508,000 going to the and "almost all the money retained" by the center, "went to pay salaries, legal fees and office-related expenses." 1195:

law in obtaining information for the report. In addition, one of the experts quoted in the associated documentary was paid $ 15,000 as a project consultant to CPI. The investigative methods used to produce the report became a point of contention within the organization when CPI employee John Solomon made a number of accusations against the team that had worked on the series.

537: 849:, an ongoing project tracing the global trade in smuggled cigarettes, produced by CPI's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, was honored with the Renner Award for Crime Reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Online International Reporting. The 799:, CPI revealed that major pharmaceutical companies were the number one lobbyist in the United States spending $ 675 million over seven years on lobbying. They continued with this series in 2005 revealing how pharmaceutical companies had contacts even within the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Trade Representatives. 1364:

reported that "ABC News has accused The Center for Public Integrity of downplaying the network's contributions to a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative report, setting off a bitter public dispute between two news organizations that once worked as partners." CPI executive director Bill Buzenberg said

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reported that "to obtain key information for the project, reporters accessed a database maintained by an intergovernmental fisheries regulatory body with a password given by a source, likely breaking the law." CPI's own lawyer and an outside law firm both determined that CPI's staff likely broke the

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companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. The documents named the leaders of five countries — Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates — as well as government officials, close relatives and close associates of various heads of government of more

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In 2008, Lewis reflected on the transition period following his resignation and said, "I regret what happened to my staff and the condition of the Center. It's no secret it had a less than enviable few years. But that's one of the reasons I thought it was important to leave. I had founded it and run

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According to a report by Lewis, "the number of full-time staff was reduced by one-third" in early 2007. By December 2007, the number of full-time staff had dropped to 25, down from a high of 40. At the time, Buzenberg said "It's a great, great place, but I will not mislead you... quite frankly left

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According to New York state regulators, "a wealthy 49-year-old New Jersey businessman", Mark Gelvan (b.1978), is the "driving force behind Outreach Calling." Outreach Calling collects money for "homeless veterans," "breast cancer survivors", "disabled police officers", and "children with leukemia",

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received the Panama Papers in 2015 and distributed them to about 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than 80 countries. The first news reports based on the set, along with 149 of the documents themselves, were published on April 3, 2016. Among other planned disclosures, the full list

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CPI's donors are listed on its website for the most recent two years. CPI ceased accepting contributions from corporations and labor unions in 1996. In its first year, CPI's budget was reported to be $ 200,000. In 2010, CPI had $ 9.2 million in revenue and $ 7.7 million in expenses. By 2022, annual

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In 2011, CPI eliminated 10 staff positions in order to compensate for a $ 2 million budget shortfall. Buzenberg and other senior staffers also took salary cuts. CPI board chairman Bruce Finzen said the budget would be "reduced between $ 2 million and $ 3 million, more like $ 2.5 million. The budget

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Lewis served as CPI's director until January 2005. As of his departure, CPI had published 14 books and more than 250 investigative reports. In 2005, CPI had a staff of 40 full-time Washington-based reporters who partnered with a network of writers and editors in more than 25 countries. Years later,

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The 2016 series entitled Science for Sale included, the February 8, 2016 article "About Science for Sale", the February 8, 2016 article "Meet the 'rented white coats' who defend toxic chemicals", the February 10, 2016 article "Making a cancer cluster disappear", the February 16, 2016 article "Ford

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doesn't cite a single instance in which the Center has attempted to "hoodwink" government officials (or anyone else, for that matter) into thinking campaign finance is a genuinely popular issue, because he can't. We simply don't operate that way. We don't do public relations campaigns. We don't

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CPI's Bill Allison responded to criticisms arising from Tregalia's speech by emphasizing that Pew's contributions to the CPI's work on campaign finance have always been forthrightly disclosed. In a published argument with blogger Ryan Sager, Allison also disputed the notion that the CPI's work

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In December 2017, CPI journalist Sarah Kleiner published a report on professional fundraisers who use telemarketing to collect donations for US military veterans, then keep 90 percent of the funds collected. According to the December 12, 2017 article, Brian Arthur Hampton co-founded two

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wrote, "the relationship of the television production to a United Nations agency and an environmental group can prompt questions about objectivity, but the package, over all, appears robust." The Looting the Seas series won two journalism awards: the Renner Award from

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Lewis said he decided to leave his position at CPI because "he didn't want it to become 'an institution that was Chuck's Excellent Adventure". Lewis' departure surprised and upset philanthropists Herb and Marion Sandler, who had partially funded the CPI's activities.

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amounted to advocacy. Allison stated, "the purpose of our grants is to do things like code hundreds of thousands of public records, put them in a database and post them on our Website so anyone can use them. The amount of money we've gotten to push

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Baskin was followed by Wendell Rawls Jr., who was named the center's interim executive director. Rawls had previously worked as the center's managing director — being named to that post by Baskin on December 19, 2005. He joined CPI in August 2005.

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where she wrote, "contrary to the statement from current Executive Director Bill Buzenberg, the center was not left 'in great shape financially' by my predecessor. Much of the money raised during the year prior to my tenure was used to offset

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on several previous projects. I replaced our director of development and made fundraising my number one priority, much as Buzenberg has done. As a rookie fundraiser, I take pride in the fact that I was able to raise millions of dollars."

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for Public Service in Online Journalism (Independent) for their report entitled "Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House" by the Public i staff and Margaret Ebrahim.

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it for 15 years, and at some point the founder does have to leave the building...I don't regret it, I think it was important that I left, but I do feel badly about the hardship it brought to people I think the world of."

217:. By the late 1980s Lewis observed that fewer resources—time, money and space—were being invested in investigative reporting in the United States by established news outlets and major publications. In his book entitled 3908:"Veterans charity raises millions to help those who've served. But telemarketers are pocketing most of it: Professional fundraisers keep $ 9 out of every $ 10 generated by Virginia outfit that's now entering politics" 858:(OCCRP) with journalists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Journalists in Brazil, Belgium, Canada, China, Italy, Paraguay and the UK also participated. that won the Overseas Press Club Award and 1357:

for investigative reporting. Hamby's story reported that doctors and lawyers working for the coal industry helped defeat benefit claims of coal miners who had contracted black lung disease. After CPI's Pulitzer win,

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In August 2000 the CPI published a story entitled "Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal Trough: State Department Questioned Deal With Firm Linked to Russian Mob", in which the authors argued that while

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Project was funded by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health. It is a cooperative project between the Center for Public Integrity's International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and

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organization whose stated mission is "to counter the corrosive effects of inequality by holding powerful interests accountable and equipping the public with knowledge to drive change." It won the 2014

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to look into the matter. Kovach concluded that CPI's reporting was "sound, ethical and fully in the public interest." In addition, the board hired an outside law firm to answer the legal questions.

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As of March 2024, CPI's board of directors includes co-chairs James A. Kiernan and Wesley Lowery, and members Richard Lobo, George Alvarez-Correa, Bruce Finzen, Jamaal Glenn, Olivier Kamanda,

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ran a piece arguing that due to a statistically insignificant correlation coefficient between campaign donations and winning contracts, "CPI has no evidence to support its allegations."

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was named CEO. In November 2016, Bale resigned from the center to "pursue other international media opportunities" and John Dunbar assumed the role of chief executive officer.

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Report: Generate dynamic status reports of monitored bills with numerous reporting and formatting options that can also be shared with clients or other interested parties.

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released the results of a 15-month-long investigation based on 260 gigabytes of data regarding the ownership of secret offshore bank accounts. The data was obtained by

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The mission of the center is "to protect democracy and inspire change using investigative reporting that exposes betrayals of the public trust by powerful interests".

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In November 2017, ICIJ launched a coordinated worldwide release of investigative reports based on the Paradise Papers, documents leaked to the German newspaper

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than 40 other countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Malta, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Syria and the United Kingdom.

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name was absent from a CPI report on pension politics". Arnold has spent at least $ 10 million on a campaign to roll back pension benefits for public workers.

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In its first year, the CPI's budget was $ 200,000. In 1996, CPI launched its first website, although CPI did not begin to publish reports online until 1999.

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In February 2024, CEO Paul Cheung resigned. The board also acted to eliminate the position of editor-in-chief, a post that had been held by Matt DeRienzo.

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reported: "As for the legality of using the password to access data, the lawyers concluded that, in theory, a prosecutor might argue it violated the

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In early 2014 the ICIJ revealed as part of their "Offshore Leaks" that relatives of China's political and financial elite were among those using

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had received a leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents from a secret source, created by the Panamanian corporate service provider

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accused CPI of being a member of what he termed the "campaign finance lobby." Citing a speech by Sean Treglia, former program manager at

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the center in great shape financially, but when you have a visionary who leaves, how do you continue? 'With difficulty' is the answer."

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The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions, and What You Can Do About It

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In September 2005, CPI announced that it had discovered a pattern of plagiarism in the past work of a staff writer for CPI's 2002 book

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has said, "no other investigative organization shines so many probing flashlights into so many Washington dirty-laundry baskets."

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BBB also found that "ontracts between the Center for American Homeless Veterans and "its two main fundraisers" –

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that the center's official version "is not accurate in telling the full story of why I left the center," but did not elaborate.

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In May 1990, Lewis used the money he had raised and his house as collateral to open an 1,800-square-foot (170 m) office in

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to publish "Sexual Assault on Campus", a report which showcases the failures of colleges and government agencies to prevent

3936: 5471: 5127: 4887: 5537: 1302:("Windfalls of War: U.S. Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan"). Its work led to widespread media coverage that increased 1055:. The BBB had advised "consumers to exercise caution when deciding whether to contribute money" to Hampton's non-profit. 290:. Lewis wrote that "most of the Center's carefully assembled, very talented, senior staff had quit by the fall of 2005". 5499: 5224: 5189: 5168: 5123: 5107: 4195: 2381: 2182: 1217: 478: 281: 5131: 5119: 5111: 5103: 1460:

The Buying of the Congress: How Special Interests Have Stolen Your Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

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The Buying of the President 2004: Who's Really Bankrolling Bush and His Challengers—and What They Expect in Return

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The CPI has been described as an independent watchdog group. The Center releases its reports via its website.

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described CPI as having "broken as many stories as almost any big-city daily in the last couple of decades".

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CPI had a revenue goal of $ 6 million for 2023, and fell about $ 2.5 million short of that. According to the

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broadcast the series which included "EPA Contaminated by Conflict of Interest", "Ouster of Scientist from

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In another essay on CPI's website, Allison challenged CPI's critics, and Fund specifically, arguing that:

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donated $ 2.8 million to CPI to launch a new project focused on state campaign finance. According to the

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In April 2016, the ICIJ made headlines worldwide with the announcement that it and the German newspaper

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Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health

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for their investigation of weak inspections endangering factory workers and surrounding communities.

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series of reports started with its first reports in 2005. In their January 2005 publication entitled

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was named chief executive officer, becoming the first African-American CEO in the center's history.

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Panel Shows Industry Clout", starting in early 2013. CPI published a series of articles including "

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In November 2010, CPI published a report on bluefin tuna overfishing entitled "Looting the Seas".

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The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics: Overcoming the Powerful Forces that Threaten our Future

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Businessman banned in New York still raking in millions from unsuspecting donors, regulators say

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Obermaier, Frederik; Obermayer, Bastian; Wormer, Vanessa; Jaschensky, Wolfgang (April 3, 2016).

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Fat Cat Hotel: How Democratic High-Rollers Are Rewarded with Overnight Stays at the White House

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Lewis, Charles; Benes, Alejandro; O'Brien, Meredith; The Center for Public Integrity (1996).

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spent $ 40 million to reshape asbestos science", the February 18, 2016 article "Brokers of

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In relation to a story in February 1996, CPI was characterized as a "liberal group" by the

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Center For American Homeless Veterans Raises BBB Concern Over Fundraising Solicitations

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CPI reports receiving foundation support from a number of foundations, including the

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as Lewis's successor. Baskin came to CPI after directing consumer investigations for

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More than 100 newspapers, magazines, wire services and websites cited CPI's report,

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Guevara, Marina Walker; Hager, Nicky; Cabra, Mar; Ryle, Gerard; Menkes, Emily.

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Lewis recounted how he recruited two trusted journalists, Alejandro Benes and

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affected the allocation of reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species

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won a "Best-in-Business" award for digital investigative reporting from the

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Citizen Muckraking: Stories and Tools for Defeating the Goliaths of Our Day

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and the 2010 Whitman Bassow Award from the Overseas Press Club of America.

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Expanding The Definition of News Media Trust, A Jay Rosen-Led Conversation

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935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity

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935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity

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Networks of Influence: The Political Power of the Communications Industry

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The Water Barons: How a Few Powerful Companies are Privatizing Our Water

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Lewis, Charles; Allison, Bill; the Center for Public Integrity (2001).

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Fagin, Dan; Lavelle, Marianne; The Center for Public Integrity (1997).

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In December 2004, CPI's board of directors chose television journalist

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called into question CPI's collaboration with advocacy organizations.

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The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy

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O'Dell, Yvonne; Wingett, Sanchez; Wingett, Rob (April 3, 2019).

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editorial described the CPI as a "nonpartisan watchdog group".

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Capitol Offenders: How Private Interests Govern Our States

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Beyond the Hill: A Directory of Congress from 1984 to 1993

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that ABC News overstated its contributions to the story.

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