Making News: Week of Dec. 6

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Susan Greene resigns from the Denver Post after column is pulled. Greene was named a Dart Center Ochberg Fellow along with her investigative reporting partner (now Dart Society president), Miles Moffeit, but was not allowed to attend the program. See Westword post here on the action and Greg Moore’s email announcing the resignation. Also click here to listen to her interview with Denver radio’s Peter Boyle, who lauds her for her “stones.”

Kristen Lombardi hits another one out of the park. The 2003 Fellow, writing for the Center For Public Integrity, reports that the Obama administration has doled out billions in stimulus money to some of the nation’s biggest polluters and granted them sweeping exemptions from the most basic form of environmental oversight. See stories here.

Moni Basu’s back in Haiti. The 2008 Fellow is covering the events post-election.Read her work at CNN here or on her excellent blog, Evil Reporter Chick, where I found the photo above. Also see her work in the new Dart Society presentation on covering Haiti.

Paul McEnroe reports on BNSF Railroad in ProPublica-funded piece. The 2005 Fellow and Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma participant looks into actions by the country’s second-largest railroad when it comes to deaths or injuries related to the railroad. McEnroe reports for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Uribe denies he “went after” 2009 Fellow Hollman Morris. Colombia’s president is called out on attacks on journalists, but he denies he “went after” 2009 Fellow Hollman Morris, whose request for a Visa to come to the U.S. for his Nieman fellowship was initially rejected. Uribe had referred to Morris as an “accomplice of terrorism” for his investigative pieces on the drug wars. Hollman is a plaintiff in a suit against Uribe for crimes against humanity.