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Florida’s Governor Will Sign Bill Expanding Workers’ Comp Benefits for First...
by Abe Aboraya Josh Vandegrift was just starting a 24-hour shift for the Cocoa Fire Department on Florida’s Space Coast when the call came in: A pedestrian had been hit by a vehicle about 100 yards...
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The Trump Appointee Behind the Move to Add a Citizenship Question to the Census
by Justin Elliott In December, the Department of Justice requested that the Census Bureau add a question to the 2020 survey that would ask respondents to reveal whether or not they are U.S. citizens....
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ProPublica Wins Five SABEW Awards for Business Journalism
by ProPublica The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) announced today that ProPublica won five awards in its Best in Business competition recognizing excellence in business...
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We’ve Updated Our Campaign Widget to Better Help You Follow the Money
by David Eads Look closely at these two versions of “The Money Game,” our widget to chart contributions to candidates in the Illinois governor’s race. The two versions — one the original, the second...
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Injured Nuclear Workers Finally Had Support. The Trump Administration Has...
by Rebecca Moss, The Santa Fe New Mexican Nearly three years ago, President Barack Obama responded to long-standing concerns that workers exposed to toxic chemicals at the country’s nuclear weapons...
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The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Weaken Civil Service Ramps Up at the VA
by Isaac Arnsdorf Last June, President Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign promise by signing a bipartisan bill to make it easier to fire employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The law, a rare...
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How Do We Keep Bias Out of Stories?
by Jason Grotto At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. The questions have been rolling in ever since, and we’ve been...
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Measuring the Toll of the Opioid Epidemic Is Tougher Than it Seems
by Charles Ornstein As the opioid epidemic rages across the country, data tracking its evolution often lags far behind. A few months ago, I set out to compile data on opioid prescribing, overdoses and...
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‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast: Where’d Trump’s Record Inauguration Spending Go? ‘It’s...
by Ilya Marritz, WNYC Find “Trump, Inc.” wherever you get your podcasts. Last month, the committee that ran President Donald Trump’s inaugural festivities released basic details about its revenues and...
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Some States No Longer Suspend Driver’s Licenses for Unpaid Fines. Will...
by Melissa Sanchez Legislators across the country are starting to rethink laws that tie driving privileges to the ability to pay fines, as evidence mounts that those laws disproportionately hurt poor...
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‘Walking While Black’ Wins Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting
by ProPublica A team of journalists from ProPublica and the Florida Times Union won the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. ProPublica’s Topher Sanders, Lucas Waldron, Ranjani Chakraborty and Kate...
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New in Nonprofit Explorer: People Search
Scott Klein Today we’re launching a new feature in our Nonprofit Explorer database. You can now search for board members and key employees who work at nonprofit organizations by name. The database...
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Flawed Assessments Caused $2 Billion Shift in Property Taxes, Study Finds
by Jason Grotto In the first effort to measure the cost of Cook County’s error-ridden assessment system under Assessor Joseph Berrios, a new study estimates that at least $2.2 billion in property...
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Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu...
by Raymond Bonner, special to ProPublica On Feb. 22, 2017, ProPublica published a story that inaccurately described Gina Haspel’s role in the treatment of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al-Qaida leader who...
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Getting to Know Illinois — And You
by Vignesh Ramachandran It’s been seven months since I packed up my California apartment and moved across the country to be the web producer for ProPublica Illinois. Can I consider myself a true...
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The FBI — ‘Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity’ — Still Working on Diversity
by Topher Sanders For the FBI, the longstanding failure to diversify its ranks is nothing short of “a huge operational risk,” according to one senior official, something that compromises the agency’s...
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Jacksonville Sheriff Admits Race May Have Played a Role in Ticket Writing
by ProPublica Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said this week that “implicit bias” likely played some role in the fact that disproportionate numbers of pedestrian tickets written by his officers in...
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How Health and Education Journalists Can Turn Privacy Laws to Their Advantage
by Annie Waldman For decades, the Judge Rotenberg Center, a school for children with developmental and behavior disorders in Canton, Mass., employed brutal methods to discipline students, including...
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How We Collected Nearly 5,000 Stories of Maternal Harm
by Adriana Gallardo About a year ago, ProPublica and NPR launched Lost Mothers, a project investigating the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in the U.S. We soon learned that the U.S. was one of the...
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Donald Trump Jr. Pushed ‘Blatantly Illegal’ Project In India, Former Official...
by Eric Umansky, ProPublica, and Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Last month, Donald Trump Jr. visited India to tout new Trump properties. Full page ads in India’s top papers announced, “Trump has arrived. Have...
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