Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/author/brendan-mccarthy/)
Brendan McCarthy has run the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting newsroom since its inception. McCarthy is a veteran newspaper and television investigative reporter. He has earned several accolades for his work, including 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist nod, a George Polk Award, and a regional Emmy award, among other honors.
A 2015 KyCIR investigation featured Trent’s death and revealed myriad problems in jails across the state, including preventable inmate deaths, inadequate or nonexistent health care and oversight failures at all levels of government.
The University of Louisville’s accrediting body now says U of L may have violated two more accreditation standards, bringing the total possible violations to nine.
Louisville Public Media is joining newsrooms, civil-rights groups and universities across the country to gather information and create a national database on hate crimes in the United States. The effort is part of Documenting Hate, a project by the investigative, nonprofit newsroom ProPublica.
Want to find if your favorite Kentucky official’s Twitter account is open to all? Are they blacklisting some social media users? Well, KyCIR is here to help.
As Gov. Bevin ramped up his public criticism and online dispatches, he’s also blocked more than 500 Twitter users from following him. And it raises a host of legal issues.
June Leffler, who graduated this month from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Chicago, is KyCIR’s summer fellow.
“A classic investigation of which any large network program would have been proud,” the Investigative Reporters and Editors judges noted.
Help us get a better grasp on the animal shelter situation and fill in some gaps. Here’s how to help.
Is voting fraud rampant in Kentucky? No, not really. But the answer is complicated and it boils down to semantics.
Though money plays a major role in politics, an analysis shows contributions aren’t the best sign of electoral success.