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ProPublica and NPR ‘Lost Mothers’ Series a Finalist for Peabody Award
by ProPublica The ProPublica and NPR series “Lost Mothers” has been named a Peabody Award finalist. The collaboration illuminated a national disgrace: The United States, which spends more per capita...
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We Have Some Follow-Ups for Facebook — And We Want Your Help
by Ariana Tobin, Jeremy B. Merrill, Lucas Waldron and Terry Parris Jr. Mark Zuckerberg just gave almost five hours’ worth of testimony on Capitol Hill. This was a sit-down senators had long requested,...
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Trump’s Company Is Suing Towns Across the Country to Get Breaks on Taxes —...
by Katherine Sullivan Find “Trump, Inc.” wherever you get your podcasts. President Donald Trump is famous for bragging about his net worth. Publicly, he claims he’s worth more than $10 billion. He...
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ProPublica’s 2018 Reader Survey
by ProPublica Every year we like to check in with our readers to find out who you are and what you think about us and our reporting. If you have a few minutes, please take our reader survey. Be sure...
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“Walking While Black” Wins Paul Tobenkin Award
by ProPublica ProPublica reporter Topher Sanders and the Florida Times-Union’s Ben Conarck are the recipients of this year’s Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award for their joint investigation, “Walking While...
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Join Our Team in Illinois: We’re Looking for an Engagement and Social Media...
by ProPublica We’re adding to ProPublica Illinois’ engagement team and looking for someone to help us reach more people with our investigative journalism. Working closely with Engagement Reporter...
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From Border-Crosser to Felon
by Deborah Sontag PHILADELPHIA — Fred and Linda Ammerman, retirees who live in Upper Bucks County, looked a little perplexed as they entered a federal courtroom to attend the sentencing hearing for...
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For Cops Who Want to Help ICE Crack Down on Illegal Immigration, Pennsylvania...
by Dale Russakoff and Deborah Sontag for ProPublica It was Easter morning in central Pennsylvania, and Luke C. Macke, a state trooper, was patrolling I-81 for speeders, swervers, texters, and...
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In Pennsylvania, It’s Open Season on Undocumented Immigrants
Deborah Sontag and Dale Russakoff for ProPublica QUAKERTOWN, PA — From the time they first flirted at a party, Anne and Ludvin Franco were inseparable. It did not matter that Anne, a waitress, was...
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Trump Body Man Turned EPA Whistleblower Is Violating Ethics Rules, the Agency...
by Derek Kravitz and Alex Mierjeski Kevin Chmielewski, the former Trump campaign “body man” who worked at both the Department of Homeland Security and the Environmental Protection Agency before...
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ProPublica Illinois, Chicago Tribune Are Finalists for Driehaus Awards for...
by ProPublica The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune investigation “The Tax Divide” has been selected as one of five finalists for the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative...
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Announcing Our Illinois Reporting Project
by ProPublica At ProPublica Illinois, we want to expand our investigative reporting throughout the state and we’re looking for some excellent journalists with great story ideas to help us do that. We...
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Six Things We’ve Learned in Six Months
by Logan Jaffe This week marks six months since we launched our website and began to publish our journalism. Since Oct. 10, 2017, we’ve published 80 stories or posts, which is about 87,000 words, and...
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Louisiana Legislators Are Earning Big Money From Government Agencies — But...
by Rebekah Allen, The Advocate When the Louisiana Legislature isn’t in session in Baton Rouge, state Sen. Danny Martiny spends his days in his small law office 80 miles away defending law enforcement...
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ProPublica Illinois Nominated for 10 Peter Lisagor Awards
by ProPublica The Chicago Headline Club has announced this year’s finalists for its annual Peter Lisagor Awards, with 10 nominations for ProPublica Illinois, including for Best Start-Up. Many of the...
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Jacksonville Over Pedestrian Ticket Enforcement
by Topher Sanders, ProPublica, and Benjamin Conarck, The Florida Times-Union [Jacksonville] Representatives from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund arrived in Jacksonville earlier this week to conduct...
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Who Polices the Immigration Police?
by Deborah Sontag and Dale Russakoff for ProPublica Early one winter morning last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were scouting the last-known address of a fugitive they had labeled...
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White House Chief of Staff Contradicts White House Claim on VA Shakeup
by Isaac Arnsdorf White House chief of staff John Kelly contradicted the White House’s claims about David Shulkin’s departure as secretary of veterans affairs, a discrepancy that could lead to legal...
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ProPublica Illinois a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
by ProPublica The Pulitzer Board announced Monday that ProPublica Illinois and The Chicago Tribune were finalists for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for their “The Tax Divide”...
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ProPublica/NPR Collaboration a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for...
by ProPublica The Pulitzer Board announced that ProPublica’s partnership with NPR was a finalist in the Explanatory Reporting category for “Lost Mothers,” an illuminating series on the maternal...
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