Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism

01/16/2025

Nate Rosenfield (Stabile '23), along with Brian Howley and Sarah Cohen, analyzed court and police records and more than 100,000 Taser log entries from 36 police departments in Mississippi. They found dozens of instances where officers shocked people in ways that violated widely accepted Taser use standards.

A lack of state standards leaves Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide when to use stun guns, and many give officers a free hand.

12/19/2024

Congratulations, Camellia Elaine Burris (Stabile '22) for the December Sidney Award for "a deeply reported, multi-layered account of the police shooting of a severely mentally ill young man named Richard Hollis. The series documents his mother Gamaly’s frantic search for accountability, which ended with her being imprisoned for violating a restraining order against the officer who shot her son. A week after the series was published, the State Attorney’s Office reversed course and announced that the state was offering Hollis a plea deal instead of additional jail time." Congratulations, Camellia Elaine Burris (Stabile '22) for the December Sidney Award for "a deeply reported, multi-layered account of the police shooting of a severely mentally ill young man named Richard Hollis. The series documents his mother Gamaly’s frantic search for accountability, which ended with her being imprisoned for violating a restraining order against the officer who shot her son. A week after the series was published, the State Attorney’s Office reversed course and announced that the state was offering Hollis a plea deal instead of additional jail time."

Unfolding in a series of raw videos, a mother’s interactions with Miami-Dade cops provide a case study in Florida’s dysfunctional mental health system.

12/17/2024

So thrilled that books by two Stabile alumnae, Emily Witt's memoir, Health and Safety: A Breakdown, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian's The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, are on the New York Times list of the 100 Notable Books of 2024.

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

12/15/2024

Heart-breaking story on the hunger crisis in Afghanistan by Charlotte Greenfield (Stabile '14). As a social worker there said, “Imagine Afghanistan as a body with no part unscathed, a body completely covered in wounds. We can only bandage some parts of it.”

Humanitarian aid to the country is falling. One reason, diplomats say: The Taliban’s treatment of women. Non-profit groups are scrambling to feed the hungry.

11/17/2024

Congratulations to Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul, (Stabile '17) one of the winners of the Columbia Journalism School 2025 Alumni Award. Read about here here:

Fall 2024 Announcing the 2025 Alumni Award Winners This spring, Columbia Journalism School honors four alumni for their outstanding contributions to journalism. November 15, 2024 Each year, Columbia Journalism School honors up to four alumni for their exceptional journalism careers, single achieveme...

11/17/2024

Good work! Neirin Gray (Stabile '22) published a version of his master's project in The Guardian.

The ex-Tory MP’s documentary How to Kill a Human Being convinced Oklahoma – and then Alabama took up the baton

10/31/2024

Kudos to Sammy Sussman (Stabile '22) for an investigative series n based on records of police misconduct from 250 law enforcement agencies in NY state.

The state doesn’t publicize officer employment histories, making it impossible to track so-called wandering officers.

10/15/2024

Kudos to Mukta Joshi (Stabile '24) for her persistence & skill in reporting this story on how a US-based foundation has lobbied for the Modi govt & laundered its track record on minorities.

US-based Hindu American Foundation has laundered Modi gov’t’s track record on minorities, championed its interests.

09/24/2024

Hooray for Scilla Alecci, winner of the John Oakes Award for Environmental Journalism, for leading an The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists team investigating the "greenwashing" of forest products.

09/09/2024

Congratulations to Stabile alumnus Podkul for his forthcoming book on "pig butchering" scams and human trafficking. This promises to be a blockbuster.

The story of an unlikely group of fraud victims and advocates who banded together to expose a sinister, multi-billion-dollar criminal operation that began scamming unsuspecting Americans during the pandemic, revealing the dark nexus of online scams, cryptocurrency, and modern slavery.

07/16/2024

Hooray for Sam McCabe (Stabile 22) and Jiahui Huang (Stabile 23) for the Sigma Delta Chi Award for their project, Toxic Labor, with Columbia Journalism Investigations, the Center for Public Integrity. and Futuro Media. Their reporting, along with two other members of the CJI team, revealed how migrant workers are exposed to carcinogenics and toxic substances while doing disaster-repair work.

Note: This article was produced in partnership with Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Center for Public Integrity. It was co-published by Futuro Investigates, a division of Futuro Media. This story also appeared in Columbia Journalism Investigations and Futuro Media Standing before a two-st...