Why did you decide to look into Ikea's Danville factory?
I heard about the tensions at Ikea when I was working on an earlier story about the decline of the gourmet fruit company Harry & David. It immediately piqued my interest because here you had an iconic global brand that held itself out as a responsible corporate citizen. This was an interesting experiment in how European corporate values make the transition to America, with its more laissez faire approach to labor issues.Continue reading...

Why did you decide to look into G.E.?

My editors and I decided late last year that I should look into the general issue of corporate taxes. We became interested in it after seeing a bunch of statistics : IRS numbers indicating that corporations' share of federal revenues had dropped to single digits (down from 30 percent a few decades ago) ; and SEC figures indicating that US corporations have had to set aside a staggering amount of money for uncertain tax positions (accounting manuevers that their lawyers say are unlikely to withstand an audit if discovered by the IRS).Continue reading...

DECEMBER: Huffington Post reporters Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim discuss “The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, and the Politics of the New Deal,” their over six-thousand word investigation into the legacy of Social Security in the United States.Continue reading...

What was it like covering the protests in Wisconsin?

What is the situation like for journalists in Egypt? How has it changed over the past two weeks?

AUGUST: Ronnie Greene discusses his stories (part one, part two) about how a tiny Florida town challenged the Lockheed Martin Corporation to compensate it for the devastating pollution caused by a defunct plant.

1.) Why did you decide to look into Tallevast, Florida and its fight with Lockheed Martin over environmental contamination?Continue reading...

Dan Savage discusses his It Gets Better Project, created to give hope to LGBT high school students.

1.) Why did you decide to start the It Gets Better Project?

I was thinking about the suicide of Billy Lucas, soon after reading about the suicide of Justin Aaberg, and I had the reaction I've always had when a gay teenager kills himself: "I wish I could've talked to that kid for five minutes and been able to tell him that it gets better."Continue reading...

Pamela Colloff discusses her story about Anthony Graves, who served eighteen years in prison in Texas for a murder he did not commit. 

1.) Why did you decide to look into the case of Anthony Graves?Continue reading...

NPR Rural Correspondent Howard Berkes discusses his seven-month-long investigation into the activities of coal production company Massey Energy, whose serious and consistent safety violations recently led the U.S. Labor Department to seek an unprecedented injunction to shut down one of its mines.Continue reading...