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Suspect America
04:25
Sep 7, 2011
After 9/11, the government began encouraging local police, private security and everyday Americans to report so-called "suspicious activity" that may indicate a security thr...
California Lost: China Camp
03:30
Aug 23, 2011
Frank Quan's family has lived at China Camp, catching and selling shrimp, since the 1890s. He's the last remaining resident of a Chinese fishing village that once thrived on...
Dirty Business (Excerpt)
15:28
Jul 20, 2011
Watch a 15-minute clip of DIRTY BUSINESS, an investigative documentary from the Center for Investigative Reporting that reveals the true social and environmental costs of co...
Behind the Story: Page One
06:13
Jun 27, 2011
Andrew Rossi directed of the documentary "Page One" about the inner workings of the New York Times and the tension between new and old modes of journalism. He speaks with th...
Sex Trafficking: How it Works
19:32
Jun 20, 2011
Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova explores the dark underworld of sex trafficking in Eastern Europe in a 2009 multimedia series, a prelude to THE PRICE OF SEX documentary. See ...
The Price of Gas
05:07
Jun 10, 2011
What's the price of gasoline? In the U.S. it's about $4 a gallon. But some experts say the true price of gas is much higher. What about the costs of pollution, and the globa...
Shaking Up the Rules of Engagement
08:15
Jun 1, 2011
Seven weeks. Fifteen hundred miles. Thirty-six thousand coloring books. It’s been nearly two months since California Watch published its "On Shaky Ground" series on seismic ...
A Lack of Enforcement
07:55
Apr 6, 2011
California Watch's investigation reveals serious flaws in a California state agency's enforcement of earthquake regulations for public schools. Two residents of a coastal co...
What's the Field Act?
02:17
Feb 15, 2011
Johnson explains how a devastating earthquake in 1933 leveled dozens of schools in the Long Beach area. The catastrophe led to the creation of a new law called the Field Act...
Hasty Review for Projects
02:52
Feb 15, 2011
After initial inquiries with the state architect's office about the Field Act certification of school construction projects, reporter Corey G. Johnson notices the state is h...
Changing Maps
02:59
Feb 15, 2011
A state geologist tips Johnson off to a controversy over the state maps designating seismic hazard zones. An initial effort to map fault and liquefaction zones across the st...
Getting the Story Out
03:07
Apr 3, 2011
The California Watch team prepares to send out the earthquakes story to more than a dozen partners at print, online, radio and TV outlets across the state. They also reach o...
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