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ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Reporter Jodi S. Cohen
by Andrea Salcedo Jodi Cohen, who came to ProPublica Illinois from the Chicago Tribune, believes journalists can achieve more when collaborating with each other and other newsrooms. In the fifth of a...
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Your $20 Million Loan Went Bust? The Trump Team Has a Job For You
by Isaac Arnsdorf As a deputy assistant secretary for policy and economic development in the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, Gavin Clarkson oversees a small program that...
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We Asked Local Newsrooms to Pitch Us on Funding Investigations. The Response...
by Eric Umansky Last month, we announced a project in which ProPublica would pay for a reporter next year to do investigative journalism at up to six news organizations across the country. Our theory...
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Have You Ever Filed a Complaint Against a Chicago Police Officer? Tell Us...
by Logan Jaffe We recently found that police disciplinary officials lost track of cases in which Chicago cops should have been punished for misconduct. We also know that citizens who file complaints...
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Chicago Police Skirt Punishment as Disciplinary System Fails Yet Again
by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune Brandon Whitehead dropped to his knees in the middle of the busy street, cars veering around him as an off-duty Chicago...
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Cheap Tricks: The Low Cost of Internet Harassment
by Julia Angwin It was 10 a.m. on a hot, humid Tuesday in August when I decided I could finally relax. After a frantic weekend of finishing a big story — and typing so much that my forearms tingled —...
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ProPublica Is Hiring a Reporter to Cover Health Care
by ProPublica We are looking for a reporter who wants to land powerful stories about the U.S. health care system’s inequities, weaknesses and gaps in oversight. Few topics affect readers as much as...
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Trump Voter Fraud Commission Is Sued — By One of Its Own Commissioners
by Jessica Huseman A Democratic member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity filed suit against the commission in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning,...
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The Tax Plan’s Mega Gift To Some of Trump’s Richest Appointees
by Allan Sloan There are times that you run across something that’s so preposterous that it’s hard to believe it’s true. But in this case, it is. I’m talking about the multiple — and permanent — set...
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Nevada Pardons Wrongfully Convicted Man Featured in Our Story
by Megan Rose The Nevada Board of Pardons Commissioners granted a full pardon on Wednesday to a man who spent 21 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, delivering a clear rebuke to the Las...
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Returning to the Scene of a Trauma
by Jodi S. Cohen It was a gray Saturday afternoon. Rain had been falling for hours and I feared our plans for an outdoor interview would be washed out. Brandon Whitehead was undeterred. In fact, he...
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Apply to Be a Google News Lab Fellow at ProPublica
by ProPublica As a Google News Lab fellow at ProPublica, you’ll sit among and work with some of the best data and investigative journalists on the planet, doing data analysis at the highest level and...
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The Breakthrough: How Journalists in the Virgin Islands Covered the Disaster...
by Jessica Huseman The rest of the world watched as Hurricanes Irma and Maria — both category 5 storms — slammed into the Virgin Islands, leaving devastation in their wake. Most of the news coverage...
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A Gangster Place in the Sun: How Spain’s Fight Against the Mob Revealed...
by Sebastian Rotella Among the wealthy sophisticates who came and went from their seaside villas on the Spanish island of Mallorca, there was something that didn’t quite fit about the Russian who...
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Police Oversight Ordinance Promised Transparency But Doesn’t Fully Deliver
by Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune When Chicago’s new police oversight agency opened in September, city officials pledged a different way of doing business:...
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Hackers Shut Down ProPublica’s Email For a Day. Here’s How to Stop Attacks...
by Julia Angwin In August, my email was attacked. Hate groups overwhelmed my inbox and the inboxes of two of my colleagues, and shut down ProPublica’s email much of the day. (I wrote about this...
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Charles Ornstein Named Senior Editor of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network
by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that senior reporter Charles Ornstein is moving to the newly created role of senior editor overseeing the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. The new...
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A Wide-Open Door for Pesticide Lobbyists at the Agriculture Department
by Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, and Danielle Ivory, The New York Times At a private meeting in September, congressional aides asked Rebeckah Adcock, a top official at the Department of Agriculture,...
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Trump Appointee Resigns After ProPublica Report
by Isaac Arnsdorf A senior official in charge of a federal loan guarantee program resigned after ProPublica reported his prior role in obtaining a guarantee under the same program as part of a deal...
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Lawmaker Seeks Records of Lobbyist Contacts with Agriculture Official
by Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, and Danielle Ivory, The New York Times A House Democrat demanded on Tuesday that a former pesticide lobbyist who was appointed to the Department of Agriculture by the...
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