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Convicted murderer let free after judge overturns verdict
By: Jessica Aloe New England Center for Investigative Reporting This is a follow up to a previous investigation A Lowell man who spent more than 30 years behind bars for the murder of eight people in...
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Sudden infant death: Agency-linked babies more at risk
In May, Melvin Hooks (pictured) found his 10-week-old daughter, Grace Lynne Hooks, unconscious in their small room in a Weymouth homeless shelter. State officials told his girlfriend that Grace died...
View ArticleWhy Is It So Hard To Test For Lyme Disease?
Rupa Shenoy and Professor Andrew Onderdonk discuss NECIR's recent investigation into Lyme disease testing in America with The Takeaway.
View ArticleHealth system overhaul plan has Medicaid advocates worried
State officials are seeking millions of dollars in federal funds with the ambitious goal of redesigning how health care is paid for and delivered to the majority of Connecticut residents. But critics...
View ArticleSpecial report: Does pressure to reunify families lead to tragedy?
Sandra Eastman was searching for love. With a childhood marred by violence, instability, cocaine and abuse, as an adult she wanted a peaceful family life of her own. Eastman’s mistake, perhaps, was to...
View ArticleChildren stuck in crisis: Connecticut’s psychiatric emergency gets worse
You’ve probably heard stories like this before. The number of children and teens going to emergency rooms in mental health crisis, some waiting days for an inpatient bed, has been growing for more than...
View ArticleChild Advocate Gail Garinger Responds to NECIR report on SIDS
Gail Garinger, head of the Office of the Child Advocate, was a guest on WGBH's Greater Boston this week to comment on NECIR's report on sudden and unexpected infant deaths.
View ArticleNECIR Executive Director Named Yankee Quill Award Winner
Joe Bergantino, director and co-founder of The New England Center for Investigative Reporting, has been awarded the 2014 Yankee Quill Award by the Academy of New England Journalists. This award...
View ArticleLab directors says tests do not need FDA oversight
By Jess Aloe Lab directors of major medical centers across the nation have written a letter against proposed federal regulation of so-called LDTs – the custom made laboratory developed tests frequently...
View ArticleHow an NECIR investigation resulted in an overturned conviction- a first-hand...
A few weeks before the spring semester of my senior year, legendary Boston journalist Dick Lehr called me into his Boston University office. “Read this,” he said, handing me a box heavy with more than...
View ArticleDigital Journalism and Audience Development Fall Internship
The New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) is a nonprofit investigative reporting newsroom based at Boston University and at the studios of WGBH News. Our mission is to ensure the...
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Hazards tied to medical records rush
President Obama and Congress poured $30 billion in taxpayer subsidies into the push for digital medical records beginning in 2009, with only a few strings attached and no safety oversight of the...
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Hobbled IRS can’t stem dark money flow
(Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) When federal election lawyers decided the nonprofit Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies likely violated political spending limits, campaign finance watchdogs...
View ArticleSpecial investigative report: Anatomy of a recall
The federal government is poised to publish a proposed consumer-protection rule that would require all processors of raw ground beef to keep records so retailers can better trace the sources of...
View ArticleHow has the Tea Party scandal changed the IRS?
The IRS has "all but quit" regulating politically active nonprofits, according to a new investigation from the Center for Public Integrity. The article is part of our weekly roundup of the best...
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NECIR report prompts call for action against for-profit debt firms
Legislation on for-profit debt firms has already been approved by the House and now awaits its fate in the Senate. (Lauren Owens/NECIR) Today, a Boston Globe editorial called for action against...
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Mass. law makes flood insurance more affordable yet some see risks
Saco, Maine, April 20, 2007 -- A home that succumbed to storm surge following the Patriots\' Day Nor\'easter. (FEMA/Marty Bahamonde- Wikimedia Commons) By: Jess Aloe New England Center for...
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Shadow Campaigns: State officials appear to misuse campaign funds
At The Boston Globe, David Scharfenberg writes about some Massachusetts elected officials who are potentially breaking federal campaign finance regulations. Federal law prohibits using money raised to...
View ArticleThere’s a new subprime bubble…in auto loans
A NYTimes investigation has uncovered a new bubble resembling the housing market before the 2008 crash: Subprime auto loans. People with bad credit or unreliable income are easily getting loans to buy...
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More extreme rain, and no way to drain it
Connecticut isn't using up-t0-date data when it designs its drainage infrastructure, according to a new story by Jan Ellen Spiegel at the CT Mirror. Rainfall is up due to climate change, and with it,...
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