April Simpson
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Journalist. Alum: @publicintegrity @stateline_news @currentpubmedia @seattletimes @bostonglobe.
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https://publicintegrity.org/author/april-simpson/ 30-12-2008 00:50:19
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Over the next few weeks, we will be devoting a portion of our pages to a three-part story called “40 Acres and a Lie.” This project is the result of work by the, The Center for Public Integrity , Center for Investigative Reporting, Sri Lanka and the Investigative Reporting Workshop.
Out today: Nadia Hamdan 🤌🏼 نادية حمدان and I visit an expensive gated community in Georgia where dozens of freed families received land titles & had built an independent Black settlement — A 40 Acres utopia that wouldn’t last long… The Center for Public Integrity podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rev…
A new report from The Center for Public Integrity found 1,200+ Black Americans who were promised land and resources after the Civil War and later saw it snatched away. April Simpson, co-author of “40 Acres and a Lie,” joined Stephen Henderson on Created Equal to discuss 🎧 buff.ly/3RKi6qv
The July Sidney Award goes to The Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones, and Reveal for uncovering exciting new evidence of the US's first attempt at reparations for slavery, the betrayal that followed, and the wounds that endure: hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/…
1/ We might be gone The Center for Public Integrity but our work is still being recognized for all our efforts to get it done. Congrats! April Simpson Joe Yerardi Camille Petersen #TheHeistSeason3
So proud to see the 3rd season of The Center for Public Integrity 's podcast, "The Heist," repeat with an #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 award for Best Interactive Feature! nabjonline.org/blog/nabj-anno… Listen to April Simpson's powerful account of Black farmers' treatment by the federal government: publicintegrity.org/inequality-pov…
Thank you for this, Investigative Reporters & Editors! 🥳
This Black History Month, let’s revisit April Simpson and Nadia Hamdan 🤌🏼 نادية حمدان’s deep dive into the legacy of a misunderstood program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles, only to take the land back. revealnews.org/podcast/40-acr…
This Black History Month, let’s revisit April Simpson and Nadia Hamdan 🤌🏼 نادية حمدان’s deep dive into the legacy of a misunderstood program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles, only to take the land back. revealnews.org/podcast/40-acr…
🎙️NEW: The IRE Podcast features a deep-dive into history — and why we need to tell stories about the past. Host nakylah carter interviews Nadia Hamdan 🤌🏼 نادية حمدان and April Simpson about their work on “40 Acres and a Lie,” an investigation by The Center for Public Integrity, Reveal, Mother Jones and PRX.
IRE’s Phil Meyer Award recognizes the best use of social science research methods in journalism. This year’s second-place prize was awarded to Alexia Fernández Campbell, Pratheek Rebala, April Simpson, Jennifer LaFleur, Nadia Hamdan 🤌🏼 نادية حمدان, Cynthia Rodriguez and Roy Hurst for their deep dive into the United States’
Congrats to the Center for Public Integrity and Reveal teams honored with an IRE award for 40 Acres and a Lie. Alexia Fernández Campbell April Simpson Pratheek Rebala Matt DeRienzo Roy Hurst @cynthiarodriguez Jennifer LaFleur & Nadia Hamdan ire.org/announcing-the…
sigmaawards 40 Acres and a Lie This powerful series combined data journalism with new genealogy techniques and the sourcing and digitization of 19th-century records to reveal a government betrayal of freed slaves, and link their stolen land to living descendants. twp.ai/4ink89
So excited to see our last big project at The Center for Public Integrity be recognized among the best data journalism on the planet. Incredible work by the brilliant Pratheek Rebala Jennifer LaFleur April Simpson Alexia Fernández Campbell Mc Nelly Torres is on BlueSky and more, along with incredible partners at Reveal.