Original timeline text, preserved from the published News21 spreadsheet.
8/10/2010
A team of students from 11 News21 schools investigates the unnecessary risks that face Americans on roads, trains, boats and planes. This data-rich project is conducted in association with the Center for Public Integrity.
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8/16/2011
A team of students investigated food safety in American discovering that foodborne illness strikes tens of millions of Americans each year — killing thousands — because the nation’s food safety system is dangerously fragmented, underfunded, undercut by politics and overwhelmed by a rising tide of food imports. It was reported and produced by 27 students from Arizona State University, University of Maryland, University of Maryland and University of Nebraska.
Original media · News21
8/12/2012
In the most exhaustive study ever of American election fraud, News21 fellows find only 10 cases of in-person voter fraud, despite a national clamor for strict voter ID laws to prevent fraud. Twenty-four students from 11 universities examine the partisan and racially charged debate over voting rights in America.
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8/25/2013
A News21 investigation documents the failure of government at many levels to fulfill its obligations to veterans returning from the wards in Iraq and Afghanistan. Twenty-six fellows from a dozen universities employ data, text, photo, videos, interactive graphics – and even a news game – to tell their stories.
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5/27/2014
Covering gun rights and regulations in America for News21's fifth national project. Our newsroom will report on gun issues as they play out on the state level in the aftermath of the Newtown school shootings and the ongoing congressional stalemate over federal gun legislation. The report will launch August 2014.
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