Get more on this story - The geographic inequity of VA wait times is fully detailed for the first time in our analysis. Simply put: Veterans in sparsely populated states often encounter quick resolution of their compensation claims for problems ranging from back injuries to post-traumatic stress disorder while those in metropolitan areas languish.
Read our full story and find out how long vets in your area are waiting.
Learn more about The Price of Sex - we talked to Mimi about the challenges of going undercover for her documentary in our Behind the Story series. Watch here.
The Price of Sex (Trailer):
The Price of Sex is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who’ve been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse. Intimate, harrowing and revealing, it is a story told by the young women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and violence. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova, who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal investigative journey, exposing the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to the Middle East and Western Europe. Filming undercover and gaining extraordinary access, Chakarova illuminates how even though some women escape to tell their stories, sex trafficking thrives. Learn more at www.priceofsex.org .
FJP: The Price of Sex was written, directed and produced by Mimi Chakarova, won the 2011 Nestor Almendros Award for Courage in Filmmaking at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and the 2011 Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting.
If you’re in DC there’s a screening of the film this evening.
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I don’t use online file-sharing networks to download copyrighted music and movies, not due to some position I take on the matter, but mostly because I’m paranoid about linking my computer to anything that can feasibly inject malicious software. So I didn’t hesitate to drop by the site Youhavedownloaded.com, because I knew they wouldn’t have any records of my Internet activity. Guess I took the Department of Homeland Security’s whole “Stop. Think. Connect.” cybersecurity campaign seriously.
But so seemingly powerful is the new site, I’m not providing a link to it here. You’ll have to decide whether to go there yourself. Once you do, the site will automatically check your IP address against a massive database of 50 million unique identities and spit out a list of files you may have downloaded from a file-sharing network, everything from “Pink Librarians” to “Maroon 5 Reinterprets the Christmas Classics.”
How does the site do this? Many file-trading networks are public, and the entertainment industry relies on this fact to collect information for randomly targeted lawsuits against people who are alleged to have illegally downloaded copyright-protected material. Youhavedownloaded.com is simply making it easier for the world to see this information.
As one would imagine, the site’s founders have already received panicked emails from Internet users. According to blogger Brian Krebs:
Krebs adds that there are significant limitations with the database. IP addresses can be dynamic and change over time, or an address at a home or business may cover the activity of multiple users. But searching “Family.Guy” out of curiosity turned up numerous IP addresses, as seen above. We already know that relying too heavily on IP addresses for copyright-infringement lawsuits can turn unwitting elderly women into civil defendants. It’s also important to point out that the site’s creators believe they can “see” only about 20 percent of the file-sharing activity online.[Site founder Suren] Ter-Saakov said he’s received emails from users whose information was listed but who deny having downloaded any files (he also said people can have their information removed on request). ‘One guy claimed he downloaded stuff only because his grandmother was ill and he wanted to watch a ‘Harold & Kumar’ movie to cheer himself up,’ Ter-Saakov said. ‘Another kid wrote and asked to have his information removed because he was downloading porn and was afraid his parents would be able to see what kinds of movies he downloaded.’
Ever wonder how investigative journalists work? In our first live Behind the Story event with the San Francisco Film Society, Center for Investigative Reporting journalists G.W. Schulz and Andrew Becker, who reported our Under Suspicion package on suspicious activity reporting, discuss their reporting methodology and how they obtained documents for the investigation.
Andrew Rossi directed of the documentary “Page One” about the inner workings of the New York Times and the tension between new and old modes of journalism. He speaks with the Center for Investigative Reporting in our Behind the Story series about making the movie and the role investigative journalism plays in society.
CIR reporters Andrew Becker (left) and G.W. Schulz (right) at our event last night with the San Francisco Film Society. Becker and Schulz reported earlier this year with NPR on suspicious activity and the war on terror. At our event, Behind the Story: Under Suspicion, they described the process of developing their investigation and showed some of their work. See more here.
I’m not just seeing print advertising. I’m actually hearing radio and seeing TV advertising. It’s gone mainstream. Not only is it inappropriate – one has to wonder what kind of message we’re sending to our children – it’s against the law.
U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy, whose district includes Imperial and San Diego counties in California.
Federal prosecutors are preparing to target newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets that advertise medical marijuana dispensaries in California, another escalation in the Obama administration’s newly invigorated war against the state’s pot industry. Read more.
Executive Director Robert Rosethal lays out 10 lessons he’s learned from his time at The Center for Investigative Reporting.
CIR - Reinventing Journalism - 10 lessons learned (in no particular order)
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