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ProPublica and Partners Win Pulitzer Prize for MS-13 Coverage
by ProPublica The Pulitzer Prize Board announced Monday that three articles in ProPublica’s “Trapped in Gangland” series on MS-13 by reporter Hannah Dreier won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature...
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Cook County Judge Loosens Unusual Restrictions on Publishing Details of Child...
by Mick Dumke and Steve Mills A Cook County judge Monday lifted part of her previous order prohibiting ProPublica Illinois from publishing some details of a child welfare case it has been...
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Mentally Ill New Yorkers Seeking Independence Find Safety Net Has Holes,...
by Joaquin Sapien New York state officials are behind in investigating incidents where mentally ill New Yorkers may have come to harm, according to an independent report filed in Brooklyn federal...
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TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body...
by Brenda Medina, ProPublica, and Thomas Frank, special to ProPublica Dorian Wanzer travels frequently for work. And almost every time she steps out of an airport body scanner, security screeners pull...
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In a Time of Cheap Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power Companies Are Seeking — and...
by Talia Buford The energy company PSEG had a simple message for the New Jersey Legislature as it weighed the fate of three nuclear plants in the state. “What’s good for New Jersey is what’s good for...
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How the IRS Gave Up Fighting Political Dark Money Groups
by Maya Miller, special to ProPublica In the past decade, people, companies and unions have dispensed more than $1 billion in dark money, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The very...
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Nuclear Lobbying Power: NJ Utility Customers Will Pay $300M In Subsidies
by Talia Buford TRENTON, N.J. — After a long, expensive lobbying effort over the fate of nuclear power in New Jersey, the energy company PSEG on Thursday secured $300 million in subsidies for the...
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Zero Tolerance: Inside the Secretive Network of Immigrant Youth Shelters in...
by Logan Jaffe This week, ProPublica’s reporting on the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism (and ProPublica reporter...
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ProPublica Wins John Bartlow Martin Award for MS-13 Coverage
by ProPublica ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier is the winner of the 2019 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism for her series “Trapped in Gangland” on MS-13. The series...
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Mueller Went Looking for a Conspiracy, What He Found Was Conflict and a...
by Katie Zavadski and Heather Vogell On Thursday, the “Trump, Inc.” team gathered with laptops, pizza and Post-its to disconnect — and to read special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. What we found...
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More Than Me Founder and CEO Katie Meyler Resigns
by Finlay Young for ProPublica Katie Meyler, the CEO and founder of More Than Me, has resigned six months after a ProPublica investigation revealed her charity missed opportunities to prevent the...
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Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes
by Justin Elliott and Lucas Waldron Did you know that if you make less than $66,000 a year, you can prepare and file your taxes for free? No? That’s no accident. Companies that make tax preparation...
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ProPublica Illinois Earns National Headliner Awards Recognition and Two...
by ProPublica Illinois Four ProPublica Illinois projects were recognized Monday by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative Reporting and the National Headliner Awards. Administered...
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ProPublica’s Hannah Dreier Wins Hillman Prize and Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize
by ProPublica The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday that ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier is the winner of the Hillman Prize in the magazine category for “Trapped in Gangland.” Co-published...
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If You Paid TurboTax but Make Under $34,000, You Could Get a Refund. Here’s...
by Justin Elliott We recently laid out how TurboTax uses deceptive design and misleading ads to get people to pay to file their taxes, even when they are eligible to file for free. But you might be...
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ProPublica “Zero Tolerance” Series Wins First-Ever Peabody Catalyst Award
by ProPublica The ProPublica series “Zero Tolerance” on the Trump administration’s family separation policy was awarded on Tuesday the first-ever Peabody Catalyst Award for bringing immediate change...
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Tall or Short. Long Hair, No Hair. Easy Smile, Baleful Glare.
by Logan Jaffe and Steve Mills Last 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 since, and...
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California Tried to Fix Its Prisons. Now County Jails Are More Deadly.
by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica FRESNO, Calif. — On the night of Jan. 17, 2018, Lorenzo Herrera walked into the Fresno County Jail booking area and sat down for an...
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What Happens When Judges Police Themselves In Secret? Not Much
by Joseph Cranney, The Post and Courier Over the past two decades, more than 1,000 ethics complaints have been lodged against South Carolina judges who handle the state’s major cases in circuit court....
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We’re Investigating How Insurance Gaps Endanger Mothers. This Is Why.
by Nina Martin, ProPublica, and Julia Belluz, Vox The only way to solve America’s maternal mortality problem is to fix its insurance problem. That’s the clear takeaway from a widening pool of...
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