Jana has won numerous awards for her outstanding feature articles for Phoenix Magazine. She’s been cited for the depth of her reporting and the skill of her writing.
The same symptoms kept showing up, more than half the workers were sick, but “officially” there was nothing wrong. Wait till you learn what that means for your office job. […]
Loretta Avent has had an interesting and challenging career -from the White House to Phoenix – but she has never fought as hard as she has in the past few years for a group of poor American Indian high school students. […]
For years, the tribe that lives at the bottom of the Grand Canyon has been seeking justice for what it calls ‘genetic piracy,’ claiming ASU misused blood samples from most of the adult population. ASU maintains the tribe shouldn’t be allowed to sue. […]
The late-night, at-home arrests of New Times executives last fall sent shockwaves through Arizona. Was it an “inappropriate abuse” of police powers exercised by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas, or were the elected officials just policing a “law-breaking newspaper?” Now the New Times is suing for millions, [...]
AFTER 30 YEARS OF SOLVING THE PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT’S GRITTIEST CRIMES, JACK BALLENTINE DECIDED RETIREMENT JUST WASN’T FOR HIM. NOW, AFTER A YEAR OF TACKLING – AND SOLVING – ARSON CASES FOR THE PHOENIX FIRE DEPARTMENT, IT’S SAFE TO SAY THIS GUY’S A TRUE TRAILBLAZER. […]
Here’s what we know: Carol Anne Gotbaum accidentally strangled herself to death at Sky Harbor Airport last September. Why, how and who’s to blame are less clear. In exclusive interviews with PHOENIX magazine, those closest to Carol relive the moments leading up to her death. […]
Thousands of saguaros uprooted. Dozens of bighorn sheep killed. Rivers ravaged. George H. Johnson holds three state records that beg the same question: Is he the worst developer in Arizona? […]
The County Schools Superintendent is charged with ripping off the homeless children of Downtown’s Pappas School, but a PHOENIX magazine investigation turns up new evidence that suggests it isn’t true. […]
Before the Baseline Killer and Serial Shooters, there was the A.M. Rapist, who assaulted women all over Phoenix in the wee hours of the morning and managed to elude police for the better part of 2005. It would take a mere moment for the man to slip up and get [...]
Lois Fraley thought the worst was over when she walked out of the Lewis Prison tower on Super Bowl Sunday, 2004. She had survived the longest prison hostage crisis in American history, having been beaten, raped and mentally abused by two inmates. But in the three years since Fraley’s life [...]