James Donahue Fellowship

A true warrior with irreverent wit and passionate idealism.

James Patrick Donahue (1963 -2014) worked as a lawyer, writer and researcher with Essential Information from 1988 to 2014.

Editor- in-Chief of Halliburton Watch (http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/).


A sampling of Reports by James Patrick Donahue

Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America (2009)
By Robert Weissman and James Donahue

This report demonstrates how financial deregulation led directly to the 2007-2008 economic meltdown. The report finds that for the last three decades, government regulators, Congress and the executive branch, on a bipartisan basis, steadily eroded the regulatory system that restrained the financial sector from action on its own worst tendencies.
http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/reports/sold_out.pdf

Patients, Patents and the Pharmaceutical Industry (2008)
By James Donahue

This report exposes Patents and Patents -- a group circulating a “Patient Declaration on Medical Innovation and Access,” a declaration insisting on delaying reforms in pharmaceutical patents -- as a corporate front group, governed by a seven-member advisory board of whom six members are linked to a pharmaceutical company and endorsed by an 110-person signatory group of whom 61 have industry ties. In light of these findings, the report challenges the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property to evaluate the Patient Declaration, and any other inputs from Patients and Patents, in the context of the organization’s deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/uploads/patients.patents.pharma.pdf

Pharmaceutical Links of NGOs Contributing to the World Health Organization’s Second Public Hearing on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (2007)
By James Donahue

This survey documents the pharmaceutical industry ties of groups that were submitting comments to the World Health Organization Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property while purporting to be public-interested NGOs. The survey concludes that submissions from groups with links to the pharmaceutical industry outnumbered those from independent groups by a margin of 2 to 1. In light of the finding, Essential Action urged the WHO to request that all comment authors disclose their financial ties to corporations, including funding sources and whether the author is a consultant, lobbyist or other representative of private industry.
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/uploads/igwg.contributorlinks.pdf

Aid for Dependent Corporations (1994)
By James Donahue

This survey by James Donahue, exposed the subsidies and tax breaks that corporations receive from the federal government as compared to the amount spent for social welfare programs. As both parties joined together to cut benefits for the poor in the name of taxpayer cost savings, Donahue shined a light on how public funds are depleted while corporations privately gain from public R&D investment, investment tax credits for rehabilitation of historic structures, exclusion of interest on state and local government industrial bonds for energy production facilities, alternative fuel production credits, deductions on Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, the Export-Import bank, the Savings & Loan bailouts, and various other programs of corporate welfare.

Workers at Risk: A Survey of OSHA’s Enforcement Record Against the 50 Largest U.S. Corporations (1991)
By James Donahue

Workers at Risk reveals the soft prosecution of workplace safety violations by OSHA. In a single 14-year period, OSHA recorded 418 workers deaths and 723 injuries at the top 50 U.S. manufacturing corporations. The average fine for each safety violation was $674 -- small incentive to improve the workers’ environment. The report received coverage in USA TODAY.

A Survey of Reported Toxic Liabilities Disclosed by 26 Major American Bank Holding Companies in 10-K Reports Submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (1991)
By James Donahue

This report examined Securities and Exchange Commission 10-K filings of the 26 largest U.S. banks to disprove the industry\'s claim that significant environmental liabilities acquired by banks through loan foreclosures requires that the industry be exempted from the Superfund law. The report showed that the banks had no significant environmental liabilities that warranted an exemption.

Shortchanging the Viewers: Broadcaster’s Neglect of Public Interest Broadcasting (1989)
By James Donahue

In this study, Donahue shows that the elimination of the Federal Communications Commission’s public interest programming guidelines contributed to a sharp decline in issue-oriented, public affairs programming. Representative Edward Markey remarked that the study revealed the “intellectual bankruptcy of the FCC’s policy.” The study received coverage in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Broadcasting Magazine.

Big Spillers 1984-1988: A Report on the Oil Spill Records of Nine Petroleum Companies (1989)
By James Donahue and Jim Sugarman

In this report, James Donahue and Jim Sugarman analyzed data from the Coast Guard’s National Response Center to document how the nine largest Fortune 500 U.S. oil companies -- Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, Shell, Amoco, Occidental, Tenneco and ARCO -- spilled 6,922,928 gallons of oil between 1984 and 1988. The report called into question the accuracy of the reporting system, citing drastic inconsistencies in annual spill totals reported by several corporations. Donahue and Sugarman paint a picture of spills becoming an “all-too-common part of the oil business” and a Congress failing to acknowledge “the mounting evidence of environmental destruction caused by oil spills.”


Op-Eds by James Patrick Donahue

The Fat Cat Freeloaders: When American Big Business Bellys Up to the Public Trough (Washington Post, March 6, 1994)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue challenges Washington to expand the scope of “ending welfare as we know it” to include corporations that have, in his word, “grown fat feeding at the public trough.” He points out that, while the government spends only $15 on Aid for Families with Dependent Children, it spends $51 billion in taxpayer funds on direct subsidies to business.

Mixed Marriage: Board Members of Top Environmental Groups Are Often CEOs of Major Polluters: A Question of Influence (The Sunday Rutland Herald and The Sunday Times Argus, July 8, 1990)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue explains how a closer look at America’s leading environmental groups shows that CEOs, presidents, and directors for environmentally irresponsible corporations sit on the boards of many national environmental groups. He shows how the National Audubon Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Wilderness Society, World Resources Institute and the World Wildlife Fund collectively have 23 directors and council members who hold key positions with 18 corporations cited in the National Wildlife Federation’s “Toxic 500.” Donahue raises the alarm for how corporate polluters represented on boards can shape major policy decisions at environmental groups to minimize corporate sacrifice.

Oil spills result from recklessness (The San Diego Union, January 23, 1990)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue describes his recent Essential Information study on oil spill, revealing how environmentally damaged spills occur regularly throughout the United States. He challenges the oil industry spin that “imperfection happens”, stating firmly that “too many oil spills are the result of recklessness, not imperfection” and calling on Congress to enact legislation to protect the environment against “corporations willing to risk environmental safety.”

Repeal of ‘Fairness Doctrine’ harmful: Critics see major cuts in public programming (The Oregonian, January 11, 1990)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue shares the history of the Fairness Doctrine, describing how, because the broadcast spectrum could only accommodate a limited number of broadcasters, the act was designed to ensure that this small group of privileged broadcasters not monopolize the airwaves with one viewpoint or narrow programming. He goes on to describe how recent FCC deregulation has led to a decline in public interest programming.

When is Uncle Sam the “Big Brother” of the airways?: Control serves public interest (The San Diego Union, November 20, 1989)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue argues that, because the number of people seeking broadcast licenses exceeds the number of frequencies, we must -- like we do with public parks and roadways -- regulate broadcasting in the public interest. He defends the regulatory philosophy of the pre-deregulation FCC: “the idea of diversity of viewpoints from antagonistic sources is at the heart of the commission’s licensing responsibility.”


A sampling of his work from the Multinational Monitor

Wall Street’s Best Investment: Ten Deregulatory Steps to Financial Meltdown
By Robert Weissman and James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2009/012009/weissman.html
(January/February 2009)

Treading on the Taxpayer
by James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/front.html
(November/December 2005)

The Missing Rap Sheet
Government Records on Corporate Abuses
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/12/mm1292_07.html
(December 1992)

The Westinghouse Web
by James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/03/mm0392_11.html
(March 1992)

Dodging Toxic Liability
by James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/06/donahue.html
(June 1991)

Mischief, Misdeeds, & Mendacity: The Real 3M
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/05/donahue.html
(May 1991)

Crime Without Punishment: Lax Enforcement at OSHA
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/04/donahue.html
(April 1991)

The "Patriots" at Raytheon
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/03/donahue.html
(March 1991)

Bankrolling the war
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/03/donahue.html
(March 1991)

Another Tree, Another Dollar
Rampant Expansion at Georgia-Pacific
by Jim Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/10/donahue.html
(October 1990)

Laying Down the Law
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/06/front.html
(June 1990)

Environmental Board Games
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/03/donahue.html
(March 1990)

Solidarity Forever? The UAW\'s Harassment of Victor Reuther
Research assistance provided by James Donahue.
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/01/weissman.html
(January/February 1990)

Senators and South Africa
By James Donahue and Katherine Isaac
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1989/07/front.html
(July 1989)

OSHA\'s Doubledealing
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1989/07/front.html
(July 1989)

The Foundations of Apartheid and the Nuclear Industry
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/12/mm1288_05.html
(December 1988)

Senators\' Investments Linked to South Africa
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/09/mm0988_03.html
(September 1988)

A woman\'s place is in the fray
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/07/mm0788_10.html
(July 1988)

While Bhopal Waits, Union Carbide Cuts Its Losses
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/03/mm0388_03.html
(March 1988)


Other Work by James Patrick Donahue

Petition to the Federal Communications Commission (2003)
By James Donahue

In 2003, James Donahue petitioned the Federal Communications Commission requesting they deny the renewal of Clear Channel\'s broadcast license, because of Clear Channel\'s questionable corporate character.
Public Interest Group Asks FCC To Deny Renewal Of Clear Channel Communications\' Broadcast Licenses

Clear Channel Objections

The Fairness Doctrine Action Kit (1990) outlines how citizens can organize a local campaign to codify the Fairness Doctrine, an FCC rule abolished in 1987 that required broadcasters to air controversial issues and to do so fairly.

The Lender Liability Action Guide (1990) explains how citizens can organize groups and form coalitions to oppose Congressional efforts to exempt banks from the federal Superfund law.

Teledemocracy Project (1990) Jim drafted comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about broadcasters\' claims that future economic viability requires that broadcast ownership restrictions be abolished. The comments countered the FCC\'s assessment of the broadcasting industry by referring to industry documents which showed broadcasters\' economic viability is not threatened under current regulations. In the comments, Jim argued that elimination of ownership restrictions would further concentrate ownership of media properties and thereby reduce competition. Jim also drafted the key consumer position paper on cable television legislation now under consideration in the US Senate. And, Jim worked with the House Telecommunications and Finance subcommittee to organize a major hearing on a new media access proposal.

The Exxon Cleanup Kit (1989) explained how citizens could organize a local boycott campaign against Exxon in the aftermath of the Valdez oil spill.

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A true warrior with irreverent wit and passionate idealism.

James Patrick Donahue (1963 -2014) worked as a lawyer, writer and researcher with Essential Information from 1988 to 2014.

Editor- in-Chief of Halliburton Watch (http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/).


A sampling of Reports by James Patrick Donahue

Sold Out: How Wall Street and Washington Betrayed America (2009)
By Robert Weissman and James Donahue

This report demonstrates how financial deregulation led directly to the 2007-2008 economic meltdown. The report finds that for the last three decades, government regulators, Congress and the executive branch, on a bipartisan basis, steadily eroded the regulatory system that restrained the financial sector from action on its own worst tendencies.
http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/reports/sold_out.pdf

Patients, Patents and the Pharmaceutical Industry (2008)
By James Donahue

This report exposes Patents and Patents -- a group circulating a “Patient Declaration on Medical Innovation and Access,” a declaration insisting on delaying reforms in pharmaceutical patents -- as a corporate front group, governed by a seven-member advisory board of whom six members are linked to a pharmaceutical company and endorsed by an 110-person signatory group of whom 61 have industry ties. In light of these findings, the report challenges the Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property to evaluate the Patient Declaration, and any other inputs from Patients and Patents, in the context of the organization’s deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/uploads/patients.patents.pharma.pdf

Pharmaceutical Links of NGOs Contributing to the World Health Organization’s Second Public Hearing on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (2007)
By James Donahue

This survey documents the pharmaceutical industry ties of groups that were submitting comments to the World Health Organization Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property while purporting to be public-interested NGOs. The survey concludes that submissions from groups with links to the pharmaceutical industry outnumbered those from independent groups by a margin of 2 to 1. In light of the finding, Essential Action urged the WHO to request that all comment authors disclose their financial ties to corporations, including funding sources and whether the author is a consultant, lobbyist or other representative of private industry.
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/uploads/igwg.contributorlinks.pdf

Aid for Dependent Corporations (1994)
By James Donahue

This survey by James Donahue, exposed the subsidies and tax breaks that corporations receive from the federal government as compared to the amount spent for social welfare programs. As both parties joined together to cut benefits for the poor in the name of taxpayer cost savings, Donahue shined a light on how public funds are depleted while corporations privately gain from public R&D investment, investment tax credits for rehabilitation of historic structures, exclusion of interest on state and local government industrial bonds for energy production facilities, alternative fuel production credits, deductions on Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, the Export-Import bank, the Savings & Loan bailouts, and various other programs of corporate welfare.

Workers at Risk: A Survey of OSHA’s Enforcement Record Against the 50 Largest U.S. Corporations (1991)
By James Donahue

Workers at Risk reveals the soft prosecution of workplace safety violations by OSHA. In a single 14-year period, OSHA recorded 418 workers deaths and 723 injuries at the top 50 U.S. manufacturing corporations. The average fine for each safety violation was $674 -- small incentive to improve the workers’ environment. The report received coverage in USA TODAY.

A Survey of Reported Toxic Liabilities Disclosed by 26 Major American Bank Holding Companies in 10-K Reports Submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (1991)
By James Donahue

This report examined Securities and Exchange Commission 10-K filings of the 26 largest U.S. banks to disprove the industry\'s claim that significant environmental liabilities acquired by banks through loan foreclosures requires that the industry be exempted from the Superfund law. The report showed that the banks had no significant environmental liabilities that warranted an exemption.

Shortchanging the Viewers: Broadcaster’s Neglect of Public Interest Broadcasting (1989)
By James Donahue

In this study, Donahue shows that the elimination of the Federal Communications Commission’s public interest programming guidelines contributed to a sharp decline in issue-oriented, public affairs programming. Representative Edward Markey remarked that the study revealed the “intellectual bankruptcy of the FCC’s policy.” The study received coverage in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Broadcasting Magazine.

Big Spillers 1984-1988: A Report on the Oil Spill Records of Nine Petroleum Companies (1989)
By James Donahue and Jim Sugarman

In this report, James Donahue and Jim Sugarman analyzed data from the Coast Guard’s National Response Center to document how the nine largest Fortune 500 U.S. oil companies -- Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, Shell, Amoco, Occidental, Tenneco and ARCO -- spilled 6,922,928 gallons of oil between 1984 and 1988. The report called into question the accuracy of the reporting system, citing drastic inconsistencies in annual spill totals reported by several corporations. Donahue and Sugarman paint a picture of spills becoming an “all-too-common part of the oil business” and a Congress failing to acknowledge “the mounting evidence of environmental destruction caused by oil spills.”


Op-Eds by James Patrick Donahue

The Fat Cat Freeloaders: When American Big Business Bellys Up to the Public Trough (Washington Post, March 6, 1994)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue challenges Washington to expand the scope of “ending welfare as we know it” to include corporations that have, in his word, “grown fat feeding at the public trough.” He points out that, while the government spends only $15 on Aid for Families with Dependent Children, it spends $51 billion in taxpayer funds on direct subsidies to business.

Mixed Marriage: Board Members of Top Environmental Groups Are Often CEOs of Major Polluters: A Question of Influence (The Sunday Rutland Herald and The Sunday Times Argus, July 8, 1990)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue explains how a closer look at America’s leading environmental groups shows that CEOs, presidents, and directors for environmentally irresponsible corporations sit on the boards of many national environmental groups. He shows how the National Audubon Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, the Wilderness Society, World Resources Institute and the World Wildlife Fund collectively have 23 directors and council members who hold key positions with 18 corporations cited in the National Wildlife Federation’s “Toxic 500.” Donahue raises the alarm for how corporate polluters represented on boards can shape major policy decisions at environmental groups to minimize corporate sacrifice.

Oil spills result from recklessness (The San Diego Union, January 23, 1990)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue describes his recent Essential Information study on oil spill, revealing how environmentally damaged spills occur regularly throughout the United States. He challenges the oil industry spin that “imperfection happens”, stating firmly that “too many oil spills are the result of recklessness, not imperfection” and calling on Congress to enact legislation to protect the environment against “corporations willing to risk environmental safety.”

Repeal of ‘Fairness Doctrine’ harmful: Critics see major cuts in public programming (The Oregonian, January 11, 1990)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue shares the history of the Fairness Doctrine, describing how, because the broadcast spectrum could only accommodate a limited number of broadcasters, the act was designed to ensure that this small group of privileged broadcasters not monopolize the airwaves with one viewpoint or narrow programming. He goes on to describe how recent FCC deregulation has led to a decline in public interest programming.

When is Uncle Sam the “Big Brother” of the airways?: Control serves public interest (The San Diego Union, November 20, 1989)
By James Patrick Donahue

James Donahue argues that, because the number of people seeking broadcast licenses exceeds the number of frequencies, we must -- like we do with public parks and roadways -- regulate broadcasting in the public interest. He defends the regulatory philosophy of the pre-deregulation FCC: “the idea of diversity of viewpoints from antagonistic sources is at the heart of the commission’s licensing responsibility.”


A sampling of his work from the Multinational Monitor

Wall Street’s Best Investment: Ten Deregulatory Steps to Financial Meltdown
By Robert Weissman and James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2009/012009/weissman.html
(January/February 2009)

Treading on the Taxpayer
by James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/112005/front.html
(November/December 2005)

The Missing Rap Sheet
Government Records on Corporate Abuses
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/12/mm1292_07.html
(December 1992)

The Westinghouse Web
by James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/03/mm0392_11.html
(March 1992)

Dodging Toxic Liability
by James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/06/donahue.html
(June 1991)

Mischief, Misdeeds, & Mendacity: The Real 3M
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/05/donahue.html
(May 1991)

Crime Without Punishment: Lax Enforcement at OSHA
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/04/donahue.html
(April 1991)

The "Patriots" at Raytheon
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/03/donahue.html
(March 1991)

Bankrolling the war
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/03/donahue.html
(March 1991)

Another Tree, Another Dollar
Rampant Expansion at Georgia-Pacific
by Jim Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/10/donahue.html
(October 1990)

Laying Down the Law
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/06/front.html
(June 1990)

Environmental Board Games
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/03/donahue.html
(March 1990)

Solidarity Forever? The UAW\'s Harassment of Victor Reuther
Research assistance provided by James Donahue.
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1990/01/weissman.html
(January/February 1990)

Senators and South Africa
By James Donahue and Katherine Isaac
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1989/07/front.html
(July 1989)

OSHA\'s Doubledealing
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1989/07/front.html
(July 1989)

The Foundations of Apartheid and the Nuclear Industry
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/12/mm1288_05.html
(December 1988)

Senators\' Investments Linked to South Africa
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/09/mm0988_03.html
(September 1988)

A woman\'s place is in the fray
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/07/mm0788_10.html
(July 1988)

While Bhopal Waits, Union Carbide Cuts Its Losses
By James Donahue
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/03/mm0388_03.html
(March 1988)


Other Work by James Patrick Donahue

Petition to the Federal Communications Commission (2003)
By James Donahue

In 2003, James Donahue petitioned the Federal Communications Commission requesting they deny the renewal of Clear Channel\'s broadcast license, because of Clear Channel\'s questionable corporate character.
Public Interest Group Asks FCC To Deny Renewal Of Clear Channel Communications\' Broadcast Licenses

Clear Channel Objections

The Fairness Doctrine Action Kit (1990) outlines how citizens can organize a local campaign to codify the Fairness Doctrine, an FCC rule abolished in 1987 that required broadcasters to air controversial issues and to do so fairly.

The Lender Liability Action Guide (1990) explains how citizens can organize groups and form coalitions to oppose Congressional efforts to exempt banks from the federal Superfund law.

Teledemocracy Project (1990) Jim drafted comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about broadcasters\' claims that future economic viability requires that broadcast ownership restrictions be abolished. The comments countered the FCC\'s assessment of the broadcasting industry by referring to industry documents which showed broadcasters\' economic viability is not threatened under current regulations. In the comments, Jim argued that elimination of ownership restrictions would further concentrate ownership of media properties and thereby reduce competition. Jim also drafted the key consumer position paper on cable television legislation now under consideration in the US Senate. And, Jim worked with the House Telecommunications and Finance subcommittee to organize a major hearing on a new media access proposal.

The Exxon Cleanup Kit (1989) explained how citizens could organize a local boycott campaign against Exxon in the aftermath of the Valdez oil spill.

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Essential Information has published the Multinational Monitor Magazine, books and reports, sponsored investigative journalism conferences, provided writers with grants to pursue investigations and operated clearing houses which disseminate information to grassroots organizations in the United States and throughout the world.

James Patrick Donahue Investigative Reporting Fellowship

James Patrick Donahue, a graduate Georgetown Law School, worked as a researcher, writer and lawyer with Essential Information from 1988 to 2014. He was also Editor-in-Chief of Halliburton Watch (http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/). For 28 years, Mr. Donahue’s research and writing shined a bright light on the misdeeds of corporate and government officials. Mr. Donahue was a 1996 graduate of Georgetown Law School and member of the Hawaii State Bar.

Ralph Nader said James Donahue was a person with “iron integrity and fundamental values regarding a just society and a first-rate researcher who set a standard for accuracy in his work that was unsurpassed, especially about endemic corporate abuses.”

We will provide financial support for a summer-long fellowship focused on detailed investigations of the misuses of corporate and government power.

The Donahue Fellowship is open to recent college or law school graduates. A stipend of $3,000 is available for this Fellowship.

Qualifications:

  • A strong and demonstrated commitment to progressive activism;
  • Excellent writing and analytical skills;
  • Ability to work cooperatively with supervisors and associates;
  • Ability to work independently; and
  • Ability to communicate effectively.

Applicants should send a resume and cover letter describing the applicant’s interest in this position to:

Fellowship Coordinator
Essential Information
P.O. Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
or e-mail these materials to: [email protected]

Contributions to help support the Donahue Fellowship are welcome.

James Patrick Donahue Investigative Reporting Fellowship

James Patrick Donahue, a graduate Georgetown Law School, worked as a researcher, writer and lawyer with Essential Information from 1988 to 2014. He was also Editor-in-Chief of Halliburton Watch (http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/). For 28 years, Mr. Donahue’s research and writing shined a bright light on the misdeeds of corporate and government officials. Mr. Donahue was a 1996 graduate of Georgetown Law School and member of the Hawaii State Bar.

Ralph Nader said James Donahue was a person with “iron integrity and fundamental values regarding a just society and a first-rate researcher who set a standard for accuracy in his work that was unsurpassed, especially about endemic corporate abuses.”

We will provide financial support for a summer-long fellowship focused on detailed investigations of the misuses of corporate and government power.

The Donahue Fellowship is open to recent college or law school graduates. A stipend of $3,000 is available for this Fellowship.

Qualifications:

  • A strong and demonstrated commitment to progressive activism;
  • Excellent writing and analytical skills;
  • Ability to work cooperatively with supervisors and associates;
  • Ability to work independently; and
  • Ability to communicate effectively.

Applicants should send a resume and cover letter describing the applicant’s interest in this position to:

Fellowship Coordinator
Essential Information
P.O. Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
or e-mail these materials to: [email protected]

Contributions to help support the Donahue Fellowship are welcome.

Essential Information