FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES, THE RESEARCH OF TRUE NORTH’S TEAM HAS SHAPED THE NATIONAL DEBATE ON ALMOST EVERY MAJOR U.S. POLICY.

This work includes in-depth investigations of right-wing individuals, corporations, and front groups trying to thwart progress on national, state, and local public policy issues, including:

• anti-corruption measures for politicians and judges
• racial justice, gender equality, and economic opportunity
• corporate accountability
• climate change, environmental protection, and sustainable agriculture 
• anti-privatization and public investments, such as public schools
• gun policy, civil liberties, and national security

Please check out the mission of True North: to research and write stories about public policies that help “promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”

The Izzy Award recognized Lisa Graves and her ALECexposed investigative team for “high-impact journalistic work that turned a bright light on a powerful institution that had largely operated in darkness.”

— –The judges for the I.F. Stone Award