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Supply chains
We’ve been on the supply chain beat long before the pandemic and food crisis disrupted global commerce. From medical supplies and plastics, to clothing and seafood, we’ve uncovered the tangled webs of corporate corruption, forced labour, and more.
📰 8 features
🏆 9 awards and nominations
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As of June 19, we will have a new team leading the organization. Our current executive editor, Andie Crossan, will be serving as executive director, and our deputy director and managing editor, Britney Dennison, will be moving into the role of executive editor.
Our founder and director, Peter Klein, is leaving the GRC to join NBC News as their executive editor of investigative reporting. The Global Reporting Centre has had a number of successful collaborations with NBC News, and we wish Peter continued success as he returns to New York. He will remain with the organization as the chair of our board.
“I feel so confident that I’m leaving the GRC in incredibly capable hands,” Klein said. “Britney essentially built the centre with me from the start, and she has been instrumental in getting it to where it is today, a go-to organization for anyone interested in innovating how global reporting is done.”
Crossan has been with the GRC since 2021. Before that, she was the executive producer of PRX’s The World, and previously worked for the BBC, CBC, Associated Press, and NBC News.
“When Andie returned to Vancouver after two decades working in London, Boston and many of the world’s news hotspots, it was like a gift from heaven!” said Klein. “To have someone of her caliber join the GRC really raised our game, and I can’t think of a better person to take the reins.”
Photo: Sydney Klein As senior leaders, Crossan and Dennison have helped the centre go from strength to strength. The two have led the editorial team with a number of successful partnerships with NBC News, Mongabay, The Walrus, and The Tyee. Last year, Crossan joined Dennison and associate professor Kathryn Gretsinger to co-lead the 2022-2023 cohort of the Global Reporting Program, based out of UBC’s School of Journalism, Writing, and Media.
“I’m thrilled to lead the GRC as we move into the next chapter. We’re a diverse team with a strong track record of reporting stories with editorial rigor, depth, and nuance,” said Crossan. “Together with Britney, I know that we will continue to advance the GRC’s mission of global journalism, done differently.”
Britney Dennison has been with the GRC since 2014, and her work has won numerous awards, including two National Edward R. Murrows. She has led successful collaborations with major media outlets, including NBC News, PBS NewsHour, The Tyee, and Mother Jones.
“It has been an absolute privilege to work alongside Peter to build the GRC over the past decade, and I know he will bring his creative energy and investigative skills to his new role at NBC,” said Dennison. “I am thrilled to take on the role of executive editor at the GRC and to work with Andie to continue our legacy of impactful journalism.”
Over the past year, while Klein was on sabbatical directing a feature documentary about bribery, Crossan and Dennison took more of a leadership role, and Klein said that gave him comfort to step back from the centre he founded.
“Building the GRC is the crowning achievement of my career, but the test of a solid organization is that it has the foundation to function and thrive with new leadership,” Klein said. “I can’t wait to see what they do to bring the Global Reporting Centre to new heights!”

Supply Chains / short doc

How a ‘carbon cage’ blocks climate mitigation
Associate Professor Kate Ervine with a short doc for Scientific American exploring how climate action is stopped by carbon dependence. Co-produced by Duy Linh Tu with support from the Hidden Costs Academic-Journalism Collaboration Grant.
Photo: documentary Still / Scientific American
Supply Chains / Article series

Inside the factories that make your clothes
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered unprecedented levels of poverty, indebtedness and exploitative conditions in the garment industry, according to the findings of a joint Toronto Star/Global Reporting Centre investigation in collaboration with researchers from the University of Sheffield.

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Supply Chains / Investigation
Medical supply chains
An investigation into the global breakdown of medical supply chains during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with AP News and the PBS series FRONTLINE.
This investigation led to an award-winning documentary, an interactive explainer, an article series, and curricular resources developed by the Pulitzer Center.
Workers carry boxes at Oklahoma’s Strategic National Stockpile warehouse in Oklahoma City. Photo: AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki Supply Chains / Documentary
America’s medical supply crisis
Produced by the Global Reporting Centre, the PBS series FRONTLINE, and Associated Press, this documentary is a joint investigation examining the failures and unheeded warnings of a system at risk.
Winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the top investigative journalism prize in North America.
AP reporter Juliet Linderman, interviewing Dr. Wayne Breining from Northwell Health. Supply Chains / Interactive
Explainer
Masks, tests, syringes, and ventilators — these were just some of the supplies that were in short supply during the height of the pandemic. What went wrong?
Nominated for the DPA for best digital design.
Supply Chains / Series
Deadly shortages
A series of stories from the Associated Press in partnership with the GRC on the medical supply crisis in the United States.
Photo: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Supply Chains / resources
Educational guide
Curricular resources (for middle school and older) developed by the Pulitzer Center that include a lesson plan and viewing guide for the documentary.
Supply Chains / podcast

On China’s new silk road
Dozens of countries have invited China to build roads, railways, ports, 5G networks, and more. How is China’s global ambition seen around the world and what impact are its investments having on the ground?
A nine-episode podcast available now.
Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
Supply Chains / Articles
September 20 2022
China’s capture of Ghana’s fishing industry threatening food security
Ghanian journalist Kwabena Adu Koranteng and researcher Alassane Samba look at how Chinese proliferation in Ghana’s fishing industry is threatening food security in the region. This story is a result of the Hidden Costs Academic-Journalism Collaboration Grant. Read the story here.
June 4 2022
To fight illegal fishing in the Galapagos, Ecuador turns to new technology
CBC’s Chris Arsenault and UBC researcher Philippe Le Billon teamed up to investigate how Ecuador is combating illegal fishing in their biodiverse waters. This story is a result of the Hidden Costs Academic-Journalism Collaboration Grant. Read the story here.
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Supply Chains / series
The fish you (don’t know you) eat
Twenty-five percent of fish caught in the ocean don’t land on our plates. They’re churned into fishmeal, which is used to feed farmed fish. But what are the true costs of this process?
Students of the Global Reporting Program travelled to China, Peru and West Africa—key locations in the global fishmeal industry—to find out.
Winner of the DPA for best editorial package.
Supply Chains / Podcast
America’s digital dumping ground

What happens to your old electronics? They might not end up where you expect. In this podcast we trace the global trail of America’s electronic castoffs. Published in partnership with the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal.