Strip-Searched at O’Hare

Reporter Renee Ferguson convincingly uncovers racial discrimination by immigration agents at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

“The Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois” and “State of Execution: The Death Penalty in Texas”

A Tribune investigative series on problems plaguing the capital punishment system in the state.

To Protect and Collect

“To Protect and Collect” examined a controversial police practice of keeping money seized during drug raids.

Rezulin: A Billion-Dollar Killer

An exposé of seven unsafe prescription drugs that had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency’s effectiveness.

Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill

A four-part series by Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong shed light on the abusive research parameters of non-therapeutic experiments conducted on mentally incapacitated individuals. They focused on several victims who had suffered and were harmed by experiments that violated medical ethics standards.

Deadly Alliance

The series exposed a 50-year pattern of misconduct by the U.S. government and the American beryllium industry – wrongdoing that caused a chronic lung disease in dozens of workers producing the strategic metal. The articles sparked major safety reforms, numerous lawsuits, and two congressional investigations.

The Bridge at No Gun Ri

Revealed, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of Korean civilians in a massacre at the No Gun Ri Bridge.

Trial & Error

A five-part Tribune investigation that found 381 people who had homicide verdicts overturned because of prosecutor misconduct since 1963.

What Corporate Welfare Costs

A TIME investigation uncovers how hundreds of companies get on the dole and why it costs every working American the equivalent of two weeks’ pay every year.

President Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky Scandal

Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff’s stories and inquiries played a major role in shaping developments on the road toward impeachment. Isikoff was the first journalist to learn of the liaison between President Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.