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La niña de 6 años escuchada en una grabación de audio de una instalación...
por Ginger Thompson La última vez que Cindy Madrid Henríquez, una inmigrante salvadoreña, habló por teléfono con su hija Jimena de seis años, la niña comenzó quejándose de tener que lavar su cabello...
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A Day After Report, Violent White Supremacist Loses Job With Defense Contractor
by A.C. Thompson and Ali Winston Defense contractor Northrop Grumman said it will investigate an employee identified as a member of a violent white supremacist group in a recent report by ProPublica...
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How the EPA and the Pentagon Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat
by Abrahm Lustgarten The chemicals once seemed near magical, able to repel water, oil and stains. By the 1970s, DuPont and 3M had used them to develop Teflon and Scotchgard, and they slipped into an...
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Who Is Brett Kavanaugh? A Supreme Court Reading Guide
by Ian MacDougall President Trump on Monday night nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that Justice Anthony Kennedy will vacate at the end of the month. Kavanaugh is a...
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How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB of Data Every Day
by David Eads I avoided using GNU Make in my data journalism work for a long time, partly because the documentation was so obtuse that I couldn’t see how Make, one of many extract-transform-load (ETL)...
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Investigative Reporter Jack Gillum to Cover Tech for ProPublica
by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Jack Gillum is joining its staff as a senior reporter covering technology and the ways algorithms, big data and social media platforms impact civil...
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Prominent Texas Surgeon Sues ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle
by Ryan Gabrielson A Texas heart surgeon whose practices recently have been the subject of stories by ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle filed a lawsuit this week against the news organizations...
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How the Fight Against Affirmative Action at Harvard Could Threaten Rich Whites
by Daniel Golden Perpetually in jeopardy, the use of racial preferences in college admissions is under greater threat than ever. President Donald Trump has scrapped Obama-era guidelines that...
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How to Find Out About Hot Dogs, Puppy Names and Parking Tickets
by Sandhya Kambhampati At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in ever...
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Undercooked: An Expensive Push to Save Lives and Protect the Planet Falls Short
by Sara Morrison For many decades, it was one of the globe’s most underappreciated health menaces: household pollution in developing countries, much of it smoke from cooking fires. The dangerous...
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All the Ways You Can Help Our Reporting Right Now
by Logan Jaffe Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Dive deeper into our reporting. Our newsletter is written by a ProPublica Illinois journalist every week. If you haven’t noticed, part of how...
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Watch the 6-Year-Old Salvadoran Girl Heard on a Secret Recording Out of a...
by Ginger Thompson HOUSTON — Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid walked out of a Houston airport early this morning to cheers, holding her mother’s hand, one month after they were separated at a Border...
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ProPublica Hires Agnes Chang as Editorial Experience Designer
by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Agnes Chang will be joining its staff as its next editorial experience designer. She starts on August 6 and will be a part of ProPublica’s growing design...
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ProPublica’s “Lost Mothers” and “Walking While Black” Named NABJ Awards...
by ProPublica The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced the finalists for its 2018 Salute to Excellence Awards, the only awards program that honors exemplary coverage of...
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In New York, Intolerance Has Become Routine
by Rahima Nasa It is just a snapshot, but it makes for a plenty ugly picture all the same: The New York City Commission on Human Rights surveyed more than 3,000 Muslim, Jewish and Sikh residents of...
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A Baby Was Separated From Her Uncle at the Border. Three Months Later, Her...
by Kavitha Surana SULPHUR, La. — Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya opened her mouth, and a gloved hand gave each cheek a perfunctory brush with a cotton swab. Fifteen seconds, and the $429 DNA test she’d...
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Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your...
Marshall Allen To an outsider, the fancy booths at last month’s health insurance industry gathering in San Diego aren’t very compelling. A handful of companies pitching “lifestyle” data and...
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Reporter Patricia Callahan to Cover Business for ProPublica
by ProPublica ProPublica announced today that Patricia Callahan will join its staff as a senior reporter covering business. She will start on Aug. 31. Callahan joins ProPublica from the Chicago...
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Updated: Facebook Political Ad Collector
by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ally J. Levine, Ariana Tobin, Jeff Larson, and Julia Angwin Explore the app.
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Explosive Report on Abuse of Women Photographers Stirs Both Anger and Pride
by ProPublica On Monday, the Columbia Journalism Review published a nearly 10,000-word investigation of sexual harassment and abuse in the world of photojournalism. The investigation took five months...
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