handed out these fliers on the UC Berkeley campus, which has more unsafe buildings than any other California university. As part of the investigation into the seismic safety of K-12 schools in California, California Watch produced and distributed more than 30,000 coloring books in multiple languages, to help children learn about earthquake safety. In 2012, it partnered with the UCSF Children's Hospital to distribute 50,000 more at San Francisco's Fleet Week. Awards and recognition In 2012, California Watch won the George Polk Award for medical reporting. Its investigation exposed fraudulent medical billing at Prime Healthcare Services. California Watch was the only nonprofit organization on the list of winners. Lance Williams and Christina Jewett were the lead reporters on the investigation. In 2010, California Watch initiated the “Open Newsroom” project. The team works from coffee houses and other public areas with free Wi-Fi. Director Mark Katches envisioned the open newsroom as a way to engage with the local community. In June 2012, California Watch partnered with KQED to hold a series of five open newsrooms around the San Francisco Bay Area. The far-reaching “On Shaky Ground” investigation was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. In 2011, the story earned the Roy W. Howard Award and a $10,000 grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded California Watch a Journalism Innovation award in 2011. In the previous year, the society named the group Journalist of the Year. The Broken Shield series of investigations into police failures and abuses picked up the Online News Association’s Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism in 2012. California Watch was nominated for four ONA awards in 2011. References External links California Watch Center For Investigative Reporting Investigative journalism Non-profit organizations based in California American journalism organizations Organizations based in Berkeley, California 2009 establishments in the United States