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From a Prescription Drug Ring to Growing Political Divisions: MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Rough Passage: Reporters Find Abuse, Neglect and Death Aboard Private Prison...
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Health Gadgets and Apps Outpace Privacy Protections, Report Finds
by Charles Ornstein The federal patient privacy law known as HIPAA has not kept pace with wearable fitness trackers, mobile health apps and online patient communities, leaving a gaping hole in...
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The Dig: Is Your School’s Plan Right for Your Special Needs Child?
by T. Christian Miller The Dig An investigative reporter's candid advice for uncovering life’s everyday truths T. Christian Miller Recently, I got a plea from the mother of a child with special needs....
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What’s The Rent? NYC Housing Officials Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
by Cezary Podkul Anyone who’s ever rented in New York City knows how hard it is to get reliable information about an apartment. How much has the unit rented for in the past? Does the building’s...
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New Report: Problem Care Harms Almost One-Third of Rehab Hospital Patients
by Marshall Allen This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. Patients may go to rehabilitation hospitals to recover from a stroke, injury, or recent surgery. But sometimes the care makes...
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Read the HIPAA Closure Letters For Yourself
Related story: The Secret Documents That Detail How Patients’ Privacy is Breached Entity name Date of complaint Issues identified Outcome Blanchfield Army Community Hospital 3/31/11 Impermissible Uses...
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The Secret Documents That Detail How Patients’ Privacy is Breached
by Charles Ornstein When the federal government takes the rare step of fining medical providers for violating the privacy and security of patients’ medical information, it issues a press release and...
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Delayed, Denied, Dismissed: Failures on the FOIA Front
Cezary Podkul Justin Elliott Paul Kiel Charles Ornstein Jesse Eisinger Julia Angwin Michael Grabell Derek Willis This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act, which was...
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SRSLY: The Female Viagra: 0.5 Satisfying Sexual Events Per Month if You Don’t...
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We’ll distill the...
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How ‘Jupiter’ Prevented a $1 Billion Bank Heist and More in MuckReads Weekly
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The Best Reporting on Tim Kaine Through the Years
by Robert Faturechi In choosing Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate, Hillary Clinton achieves some of what political analysts say she needs to counter her Republican...
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Doctors in Danger: How the Assad Regime is Targeting Syrian Physicians
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Judge Tosses Out Defamation Lawsuit Filed Against ProPublica, CIR
by Robert Faturechi This story was co-published with CIR. A federal district judge in Phoenix threw out a lawsuit on Monday that accused ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting of...
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Set It and Forget It: How Default Settings Rule the World
by Lena Groeger Updated (Jul. 27, 2016): A paragraph was inadvertently cut from this column during editing and has been added back. Visual Evidence Data and design in everyday life Lena Groeger We’ve...
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New Jersey Student Loan Agency to Staff: Don’t Tell Borrowers About Help...
by Annie Waldman Some restaurants have secret menus, special items that you can only get if you know to ask. New Jersey’s student loan program has secret options, too — borrowers may be able to get...
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The Best Reporting on Hillary Clinton Over the Years
by Sarah Smith Updated (Apr. 7, 2016): This story was updated to restore a paragraph with additional links that was accidentally omitted during the editing process. The Arkansas Years In 1977, after...
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SRSLY: Why Make Something When Nothing Sells Just as Well?
by David Epstein SRSLY The best reporting you probably missed David Epstein Welcome to SRSLY, an (experimental) newsletter highlighting under-exposed accountability journalism. We’ll distill the...
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Technical Response to Northpointe
by Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin On May 23, ProPublica published an article on a software program designed to predict the likelihood of future criminal conduct. The company that sells the program,...
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ProPublica Responds to Company’s Critique of Machine Bias Story
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson In May, ProPublica published an article that took a close look at a computer program used in many jurisdictions to forecast whether criminal defendants are likely to...
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