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ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Reporter Jason Grotto
by Andrea Salcedo Jason Grotto, who came to ProPublica Illinois from the Chicago Tribune, believes journalists must fight to get to the bottom of an issue because “if you’re complacent and just take...
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Political Ads on Facebook
by Jeff Larson, Rob Weychert, Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
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Facebook Allowed Political Ads That Were Actually Scams and Malware
by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin In September, an ad with the headline, “New Approval Ratings For President Trump Announced And It’s Not Going The Way You Think,” targeted...
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How We Are Monitoring Political Ads on Facebook
by Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Political ads on Facebook have come under scrutiny since it was revealed that Russia used such messages to try to influence the 2016 U.S....
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Local Lawmakers and Civil Rights Groups Call for Suspending Pedestrian...
by Topher Sanders, ProPublica, and Benjamin Conarck, Florida Times-Union Jacksonville, Fl. — Several local lawmakers and civil rights organizations have called for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office to...
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How Students Get Banished to Alternative Schools
by Heather Vogell In October 2014, less than two months after entering North Augusta High School in Aiken County, South Carolina, Logan Rewis paused to drink from a fountain in the hallway between...
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Jared Kushner By Day: Mideast Peace. Kushner Companies By Night: Donating to...
by Justin Elliott As Jared Kushner leads the U.S. government’s effort to develop an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, the Kushner Companies Charitable Foundation is funding a hardline Israeli settlement...
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Illinois Legislators Pledge to Deal with ‘Pipeline to Prison’ at Juvenile...
by Duaa Eldeib A top juvenile official testified Tuesday that guards at a southern Illinois youth correctional facility have created a “pipeline to prison” that is hampering the state’s ability to...
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How We Analyzed Commercial and Industrial Property Assessments in Chicago and...
by Sandhya Kambhampati and Jason Grotto
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Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth
by Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Renee Montagne, NPR On a melancholy Saturday this past February, Shalon Irving’s “village” — the friends and family she had assembled to support her as a single mother...
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Covering the Midterms With Election DataBot
Derek Willis The midterm elections are less than a year away, and with the balance of power of both houses of Congress at stake, they seem likely to be closely fought. To help local journalists use...
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Meet the Seven Reporters Joining Us on ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network
by Charles Ornstein There are two types of police reporters, Christian Sheckler recalls his executive editor telling him not too long ago: Those who try to make friends with officers and get rewarded...
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I Spent Years Reporting on Chicago’s Property Tax System. Here’s What Got Me...
by Jason Grotto Coefficient of dispersion, price-related differential, first-pass, second-pass, assessment level, effective tax rate ... I’d use these terms in meetings with my editors, and I could...
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ProPublica Local Reporting Network Selects Seven Newsrooms Across U.S.
by ProPublica ProPublica today named the seven newsrooms and local reporters that will participate in the inaugural ProPublica Local Reporting Network. The yearlong initiative, which kicks off in...
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Black Women Disproportionately Suffer Complications of Pregnancy and...
by Adriana Gallardo About 700 to 900 women die each year from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. And for every death, dozens of women suffer life-threatening complications. But there is a...
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The Trump Administration Is Scuttling a Rule That Would Save People From...
by Jesse Eisinger After Hurricane Irma hit three months ago in Orlando, Florida, the local police got a desperate 911 call from a 12-year-old boy reporting that his mother and siblings were...
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Coming Soon From ProPublica and the Texas Tribune: The Taking
by ProPublica The government’s vast seizure of private property to build a border fence a decade ago provoked cries of abuse and unfairness. Will it all be repeated if Trump gets his wall? A...
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Here’s How to Find Out If Your Elected Officials Are Blocking Constituents on...
by Derek Kravitz, Terry Parris Jr. and Leora Smith Facebook and Twitter have become central parts of our political and civic lives. It’s not just President Donald Trump on Twitter and political ads on...
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Governors and Federal Agencies Are Blocking Nearly 1,300 Accounts on Facebook...
by Leora Smith and Derek Kravitz Amanda Farber still doesn’t know why Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan blocked her from his Facebook group. A resident of Bethesda and full-time parent and volunteer, Farber...
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