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Nov 16

2021

Double your money with a donation to iPost

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This is an important time of the year for nonprofits, as it’s when they raise a lot of money that helps sustain and grow their operations. So it is for Investigative Post, as well. Donors who support us can be confident they’ll get a good bang for their buck. While we’re far from the largest news organization, our reporting has great impact. Contributions of up to $1,000 made  by the end of the year are matched by a consortium that includes the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, Try-It Distributing and NewsMatch, a collection of national foundations and media companies who[...]

Posted 3 years ago

May 3

2021

Bar Association honors Investigative Post

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The Bar Association of Erie County has selected Investigative Post as the recipient of its Media Award. Buffalo’s nonprofit investigative reporting center was among those honored  last week with a Law Day Award, bestowed on individuals and organizations who “have done extraordinary work in the Western New York community.” Over the past several years, Investigative Post has done a number of in-depth reporting on Western New York’s criminal justice system. Coverage last year included stories on police misconduct leading to costly settlements, the mistreatment of immigrants held at the ICE detention center in Batavia, problematic provisions on Buffalo’s contract with[...]

Posted 4 years ago

Feb 4

2021

iPost adds YouTube, Instagram and Reddit

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Investigative Post has expanded our online presence to include a YouTube channel and two additional social media platforms to complement our presence on Facebook and Twitter. Our YouTube channel includes 42 videos, most of them stories produced since the spring for our partners at WGRZ. The channel includes a feature story, which typically will be our latest piece, and playlists organized by topics, including coverage of Buffalo police, City Hall and politics. Fresh videos will be posted shortly after they air on WGRZ.  (Our videos are also available on our website, embedded in stories.) We’ve also started posting to Instagram[...]

Posted 4 years ago

Jan 6

2021

Top iPost story: Cost of police misconduct

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The cost to city taxpayers of police misconduct — $11.9 million in legal settlements since 2015 — has been selected by readers as Investigative Post’s best story of 2020. The story by Phil Gambini cited 16 settlements that cost the city treasury up to $4.5 million to settle. Most involve excessive use of force or negligent driving. In addition, the July 16 story reported four ongoing lawsuits seeking damages for alleged police misconduct. Reported Gambini: The court orders and settlements have fiscal implications for a city struggling to close budget deficits, as well. Buffalo has spent $5.3 million on settlements[...]

Posted 4 years ago

Jan 2

2021

Investigative Post adds two reporters

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Investigative Post has added two reporters to our staff. Mark Scheer joins us from the Niagara Gazette and Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, where he served as regional news director. Layne Dowdall begins a fellowship following her graduation from St. Bonaventure University. Our reporting staff has typically included three reporters in recent years. The addition of Scheer and Dowdall brings us to four full-time reporters. They join Geoff Kelly, former editor of The Public and Artvoice, and Phil Gambini, who worked with Scheer at the Gazette. Kelly covers local government and politics, Gambini is relaunching our environmental beat that has been[...]

Posted 4 years ago

Dec 30

2020

Last chance to double your money

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Our annual drive is winding down. If you’d still like to contribute, donations must be made by midnight Thursday to be eligible for matching dollars. We’ve had a successful campaign thus far. Last year, match-eligible donations of up to $1,000 totaled $23,312. Those donations this November and December, through Tuesday, come to $35,727. Those donations will be matched, dollar for dollar, by supporters that include NewsMatch, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, Try-It Distributing and the Mulroy Family Foundation. Our total donations for November and December total $84,353, including contributions over $1,000. That tops last year’s income for the same period. We’re grateful[...]

Posted 4 years ago

Dec 28

2020

Meet our new board members

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Investigative Post has added five members to its board of directors who represent a cross-section of the community. New members include: Sarah Cohen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked at The Washington Post and New York Times, and who presently teaches data journalism at Arizona State University. Samuel Savarino, owner and CEO of Savarino Companies, and a past and present member of numerous nonprofit boards. Danielle Judge-Freeman, labor organizer for United University Professions, which represents the faculty and professional staff of the SUNY system.  Bob Confer, president of Confer Plastics in North Tonawanda and a leader in the local[...]

Posted 4 years ago

Dec 12

2020

Vote for our top story of the year

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Investigative Post has produced 220 stories and other pieces of content in 2020. Our work has ranged from in-depth investigations, follow-up stories and blog posts to podcasts and radio interviews.  Our reporting this year covered topics ranging from misconduct by Buffalo police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, to assorted shenanigans at City Hall and the Western Regional Off Track Betting Corp.  Those stories reached a large audience through our website and partners, starting with WGRZ and including WBFO, WBEN, The Capitol Pressroom and Buffalo Spree. This distribution network can reach[...]

Posted 4 years ago
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