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Jim Malewitz

Jim Malewitz

Jim Malewitz joined the Center in 2019 as investigations editor. His role includes editing, managing fellows and interns, facilitating cross-newsroom collaborations and investigative reporting. Jim has worked almost exclusively in nonprofit, public affairs journalism. He most recently reported on the environment for Bridge Magazine in his home state of Michigan, following four years as an energy and investigative reporter for the Texas Tribune. Jim previously covered energy and the environment for Stateline, a nonprofit news service in Washington, D.C. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, POLITICO Magazine and newspapers across the country. Jim majored in political science at Grinnell College in Iowa and holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Iowa. There, he was a founding staff member of the nonprofit Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, where he serves on the board of directors.

NewsMatch

Journalism is more than the story: a letter from Investigations Editor Jim Malewitz

By Jim Malewitz (Wisconsin Watch) | November 20, 2020

Your donation today impacts our ability to focus on nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative journalism, as well as members of the communities we serve through our reporting. Our work is more than a story. Lives, communities and even our democracy are on the line.

Justice & Safety

‘I just killed somebody’: Vigilantes inject danger into police brutality protests in Kenosha, nationwide

By Jim Malewitz (Wisconsin Watch) and Vanessa Swales (Wisconsin Watch) | August 28, 2020

A 17-year-old answering a call to arms to protect property faces murder charges after allegedly shooting two men to death during a protest over a police shooting

Coronavirus Coverage

Wisconsin’s pandemic past offers clues to its coronavirus future

By Jim Malewitz (Wisconsin Watch) | April 28, 2020

During the 1918 flu epidemic, Wisconsin limited deaths with statewide stay-at-home measures, though some cities reopened early — with deadly results. Will history repeat with the coronavirus pandemic?

Coronavirus Coverage

Their Wisconsin ballots never arrived. So they risked a pandemic. Or stayed home.

By Jim Malewitz (Wisconsin Watch) | April 7, 2020

For possibly thousands of Wisconsin voters who requested absentee ballots that never came, a U.S. Supreme Court decision meant voting in person — or not at all.

Coronavirus Coverage

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers relaxes rules to boost health care workforce during coronavirus pandemic

By Jim Malewitz (Wisconsin Watch) and Bram Sable-Smith (WPR) | March 27, 2020

The changes will last throughout the state’s Public Health Emergency, and they will affect doctors, nurses and physician assistants.

NewsMatch

Investigative reporting shouldn’t be a secret

By Jim Malewitz (Wisconsin Watch) | December 6, 2019

If the public doesn’t understand how journalists work, that’s an existential problem — not just for the news industry, but for a democracy that requires trusted watchdogs to properly function.

Environment

Great Lakes freighters may have to treat ballast water to curb invasives

By Jim Malewitz (Wisconsin Watch) and Sarah Whites-Koditschek (Wisconsin Public Radio/Wisconsin Watch) | August 27, 2019

Ballast rules for ocean-going vessels to limit invasive species work; adding rules for local freighters would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, the industry says.

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