Investigate Midwest staff

Reporter's Notebook: Jury pool included those with dicamba complaints

A behind-the-scenes look at what happened on opening day of the dicamba trial

/ 28 Jan 2020

With your help, the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting could receive up to $75,000

The campaign doubles donations to 155 nonprofit newsrooms in nearly every state across the country, starting Nov. 1 and running through Dec. 31, 2018. The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting will also receive an additional match.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 16 Nov 2018

With your help, the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting could receive up to $75,000

Cargill to pay $1.5 million to settle discrimination charges

Cargill Meat Solutions, headquartered in Wichita, Kan., has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve charges of discrimination investigated by the Denver Field Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced today.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 14 Sep 2018

Join our newsroom as an engagement fellow

Join our newsroom. Illinois Humanities is looking for an emerging journalist with interest and experience in community engagement for the 2018-19 Engagement Fellowship with the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting in Champaign, Illinois.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 1 Aug 2018

Monsanto No More: Agri-Chemical Giant's Name Dropped In Bayer Acquisition | NPR

These days Monsanto is shorthand for, as NPR’s Dan Charles has put it, “lots of things that some people love to hate”: Genetically modified crops, which Monsanto invented. Seed

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 4 Jun 2018

Wisconsin agriculture agent shortage is the end of an era for rural America | New Food Economy

The University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension has reduced its fleet, bought out ranks of rural agents, and cut the number of positions across the state. Now farmers stand to lose

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 31 May 2018

Bayer wins U.S. nod for Monsanto, nearing end of two-year quest | Bloomberg

Bayer AG won U.S. antitrust approval for its $66 billion takeover of Monsanto Co., clearing the last major regulatory hurdle to forming the world’s biggest seed and agricultural-chemicals provider after a nearly two-year review.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 29 May 2018

Midwest Center wins Lisagor Award for reporting on migrant labor abuses

The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting has been awarded the 2017 Peter Lisagor Award in the online category for the Best Investigative/Public Service Reporting for our story on migrant labor abuses in the field.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 15 May 2018

Midwest Center wins Lisagor Award for reporting on migrant labor abuses

On China tariffs, farm groups say no

Earlier this month, the U.S. and China both announced billions of dollars in taxes on billions of dollars worth of imported goods - China is seeking tariffs on $50 billion worth of U.S. products that include soybeans and pork while the U.S. announced taxes on $150 billion worth of 1,300 Chinese prod

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 11 Apr 2018

Giving away the (wind) farm

Across the windswept Midwest, wind turbine companies — often based overseas for tax shelters — have lobbied for low or non-existent property taxes rates and steep depreciation schedules. The big losers in the deal? Rural school districts that depend on those property taxes. In a multi-state reportin

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 4 Dec 2017

Announcing our first-ever audience engagement fellow, Anna Casey

Illinois Humanities and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting jointly announced today that Anna Casey has been named their first-ever Audience Engagement Fellow. During the 12-month term of her Fellowship, Casey will work full-time with the Center, a Champaign-based nonprofit investigative

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 6 Jul 2017

Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting wins fellowship for Big Ag project

The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting has been selected by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute as one of six fellowship projects for 2017-2018 that will focus on filter bubbles, bite-size training and business-side analytics.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 5 Apr 2017