The Center for Public Integrity's 'The Water Barons' and 'Well Connected'

The Center for Public Integrity continues racking up awards for online journalism, winning the IRE award this year for "The Water Barons." �The Water Barons� is a sweeping, worldwide look at an issue that is rapidly escalating in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world," the judges said. "The graphic findings � outbreaks of disease, unaffordable drinking water, lack of oversight � paints a picture of what can happen when water policies go awry. This series could become a coverage blueprint for years to come."

CPI's "Well Connected: A report on the frequent travels of the FCC and other telecommunications issues," was a finalist. "Well Connected" won a 2003 Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association and USC. "These journalists wrenched eight years of hard-copy travel data out of a reluctant FCC and turned it into an online database showing which trips each commissioner took and who paid for them," the judges wrote. "This classic investigative-reporting project dredged up facts that led the FCC to change its policies on accepting free travel."

Here are some of the other project CPI has won awards for.