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April 1, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009:Tens of thousands of nuclear workers are seriously ill or dying from their exposure to radioactive and hazardous materials -- and they are not being compensated for their illnesses despite promises from the federal government.   Investigative reporter Laura Frank of Denver's Rocky Mountain News spent more than...
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March 27, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009:This week on Exposé: Maricopa County, Arizona -- including Phoenix and beyond, it is one of the largest counties in America.  It's known for its good living, warm desert climate, and media-savvy sheriff.  For over 16 years, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been known for his tough approach...
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February 10, 2009
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel continues its investigation of the debate over the safety of Bisphenol A, a commonly used chemical which is known to cause health problems in lab animals.
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January 9, 2009
The Seattle Times is on the trail again, following the money to see if Congress has kept its promise to come clean on earmarks.
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December 18, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008: This week on Exposé: a new episode online and on Bill Moyers Journal (check local listings). A private company hired to build military family homes never finishes the job. An employee tries to do something about it but his bosses - and the U.S. Navy -...
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November 21, 2008
An investigative reporter with a Dallas television station figures out what's behind a series of deadly house explosions.
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November 14, 2008
An investigation by The Denver Post reveals that many Native Americans living on reservations are subject to a "systemic failure" of the very justice system that is supposed to protect them.
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November 3, 2008
Select Exposé episodes now available in Spanish. (Click here for English-language version of this program.)
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August 7, 2008
BusinessWeek reveals how businesses are profiting from the nation's working poor.
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July 18, 2008
A small-town reporter unearths a long-buried secret within the local Boy Scouts, leading to a pedophile scandal that rocks a community. Nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy®.
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June 26, 2008
The Charlotte Observer investigates the human costs of feeding America's appetite for poultry.
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April 10, 2008
When The Washington Post took on the multibillion-dollar system of federal agricultural subsidies, a reporting team interviewed hundreds of sources, pored over thousands of documents and analyzed a database of 217 million payment records.  The result?  The paper identified over 15 billion taxpayer dollars spent on what it called "wasteful, unnecessary or redundant expenditures."
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February 21, 2008
The Seattle Times follows the money to find members of Congress providing federal dollars in the form of "earmarks" to their campaign contributors. And it's all business as usual.
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November 2, 2007
In the wake of the Sago Mine disaster, The Charleston Gazette goes deep inside the coal mining industry to reveal the lax safety measures and lack of oversight by a federal agency that can create deadly working conditions.
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October 26, 2007
Going undercover, using hidden cameras, and obtaining government documents, local television news reporters reveal lax security, sleeping guards and failed security tests at some of the nation's busiest airports....
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October 17, 2007
The Copley News Service and The San Diego Union-Tribune go inside the Beltway and expose the bribes-for-government-contracts scheme that made Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham a rich man, and ultimately landed him in jail.
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October 5, 2007
A small-town reporter unearths a long-buried secret within the local Boy Scouts, leading to a pedophile scandal that rocks a community.Watch Part 1....
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September 26, 2007
A small-town reporter unearths a long-buried secret within the local Boy Scouts, leading to a pedophile scandal that rocks a community.Watch Part 2....
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September 14, 2007
Beginning with a deadly crash that killed ten people, this Dallas Morning News investigation examines safety in the nation's trucking industry.
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September 7, 2007
McClatchy News Service investigates lawyers who are required by law -- but often fail -- to defend their clients' lives in death penalty cases....
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July 27, 2007
A Miami Herald investigation exposes widespread mismanagement and misspending at the Miami-Dade Housing Agency.
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July 20, 2007
Expos�© details the Houston Chronicle investigation that gave a city the answers to some troubling environmental questions.
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July 13, 2007
Vanity Fair pulls back the curtain on SAIC, the largest government contractor you've never heard of.
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June 29, 2007
Carl Prine expands his investigation to include the transport of deadly toxics via the U.S. railways. ...
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June 22, 2007
Reporter Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reveals security shortfalls in the nation's chemical plants.
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November 17, 2006
The Oregonian exposes the head of a non-profit organization who gets rich off a federal program designed to help the disabled.
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November 10, 2006
Paul Thacker of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology uncovers connections among big businesses, big money, and industry-funded front groups disguised as grassroots organizations that misrepresent scientific evidence in an attempt to influence public opinion and policy.
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November 3, 2006
Using a confidential source, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada of The San Francisco Chronicle exposed steroid use by superstar athletes, yet it is the reporters themselves who faced the longest jail terms.
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October 27, 2006
The Washington Post investigates waste, fraud, and failed projects in Homeland Security contracting.
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October 20, 2006
The Hartford Courant investigates a disturbing trend in the mental health condition of military personnel sent to Iraq and Afghanistan - suicide rates are up, and the military has inadequate mechanisms to care for those in need of help.
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October 13, 2006
Scott Glover and Matt Lait of the Los Angeles Times discover that the L.A. Police Department was withholding critical evidence regarding officer-involved shootings - evidence that indicates the officers were at fault and that a small percentage of officers are responsible for a disproportionate number of shootings.
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September 29, 2006
A Chicago Tribune investigator connects the deaths of twelve Nepali workers on their way to support U.S. troops in Iraq to a network of human trafficking, fly-by-night companies, and ties to American corporations.
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September 22, 2006
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer looks into the safety of oil tankers in the Pacific Northwest and reveals problems that show that another Exxon Valdez could happen again.
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September 15, 2006
NPR investigates the treatment of immigrants held at federal prisons, revealing abuse, and in one case, the death of a detainee....
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September 1, 2006
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reveals massive waste and mismanagement at FEMA a year before Hurricane Katrina.
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