There are 16 article(s) tagged Institute for Public Service Reporting:
As The Daily Memphian and the Institute for Public Service Reporting come up on our fifth anniversaries later this year, we have agreed that we both have outgrown the limitations of our arrangement.
As rape survivors pursue a lawsuit accusing the Memphis Police Department of negligence, the city is asking a judge to exclude testimony of a former sex crimes detective who claims MPD failed to properly investigate numbers of cases.
“The cases in our region that we plan to investigate as part of the Civil Wrongs project were often trivialized by journalists at the time. Reporters often took officials’ statements without question while disregarding Black voices that dared to complicate the story.”
As Memphis frets over possibly leaving TVA in search of cheaper electricity, the federal agency again rejects a Freedom of Information request seeking details on salaries it pays its employees.
Rape survivor Debby Dalhoff has been searching for decades for answers in her still-unsolved 1985 home-invasion attack by a masked intruder.
A committee will review MLGW’s ethics policy to determine why its financial disclosure statements aren’t posted on the web — and why those statements require less information than state of Tennessee forms do.
City-owned Memphis Light, Gas & Water is failing to post financial disclosure forms of its officers and directors on the Internet as contemplated in its 2007 ethics policy.
As the pandemic hobbles on, clients have filed a record number of orders of protection for situations that were “more violent than ever.”
Beginning Monday, the Institute for Public Service Reporting at The University of Memphis, in partnership with The Daily Memphian, reveals the results of its exclusive investigation into how thousands of rape kits went untested and the impact that backlog has had on victims.
With a combined 75 years of journalism experience, David Waters and Marc Perrusquia have been covering some of the hardest, most important and most complicated stories in Memphis.
Bucking a nationwide movement, nine of 13 Southern states have no state law or court edict requiring police to video or audio record interrogations, according to recent studies.
An investigation by the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis reveals MPD is a prominent outlier in a national movement among police departments to fully record the questioning of suspects during homicide investigations, making its detectives frequent targets for allegations of impropriety.
Tom Bailey, Wayne Risher and John Varlas of The Daily Memphian and Marc Perrusquia, director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis, are among the winners in this year's Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters and Media Editors contest.
David Waters is joining the University of Memphis' Institute for Public Service Reporting as assistant director. The Daily Memphian is exclusive publisher of the institute's reporting.
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