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ProPublica, NPR Win MOLLY Journalism Prize for “Sold for Parts”
by ProPublica The Texas Observer and the Texas Democracy Foundation announced today that ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell and NPR’s Howard Berkes are the winners of the 2018 MOLLY National...
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ProPublica’s Rachel Glickhouse Named Livingston Award Finalist
by ProPublica Rachel Glickhouse, the partner manager for ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project, has been named a finalist in this year’s Livingston Awards, which honor outstanding achievement by...
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University of Illinois at Chicago Officials Defend Handling of Researcher’s...
by Jodi S. Cohen University of Illinois at Chicago officials on Tuesday told faculty, staff and students that research misconduct by one of the campus’ star faculty members was an anomaly and there...
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“Sold for Parts” Wins Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
by ProPublica Hunter College announced today that the ProPublica and NPR series “Sold for Parts” won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. In the series’ first piece, ProPublica...
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ProPublica Illinois, Chicago Tribune Win Driehaus Award for Investigative...
by ProPublica The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune project “The Tax Divide” is the winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Investigative Reporting. The award honors achievement...
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Baltimore to Pay Largest Settlement in City History — $9 Million — to Man...
by Megan Rose Baltimore officials today approved a $9 million settlement — the largest in city history — to James “J.J.” Owens, who spent two decades in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Owens’...
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Climate Change and Vulnerable Communities — Let’s Talk About This Hot Mess.
by Talia Buford Climate change will impact us all, no matter who we are or where we live. But that doesn’t mean it will hit us equally. Climate change may not discriminate, but people do. As a...
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Ranks of Notorious Hate Group Include Active-Duty Military
A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston, special to ProPublica, and Jake Hanrahan, special to ProPublica The 18-year-old, excited by his handiwork at the bloody rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last...
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Trump’s Appointees Pledged Not to Lobby After They Leave. Now They’re Lobbying.
by Derek Kravitz and Alex Mierjeski Lobbyists who joined the Trump administration and now want to return to their old trade have a problem: President Trump said they can’t. Days after taking office,...
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Whoops! Jared Kushner Made Even More Mistakes in His Federal Filings
by Justin Elliott Jared Kushner’s ethics disclosure filing misstated the financials on two Brooklyn loans, the latest in a long series of errors and omissions on the form. A Kushner representative...
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Did Your Employer Ask You to Sign Away Your Right to Talk? We Want to Know...
by Ariana Tobin When you walk into the lobby of many major tech companies, one of the first things you’ll encounter is a tablet screen laying out what you can and can’t talk about after you leave....
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One West Virginia County Tried to Break Its Dependence on the Energy...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — Matt Wender’s vision for Fayette County begins with the New River Gorge. Whitewater rafters, hikers and mountain bikers congregate...
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Those Questions You’ve Been Asking About Journalism? We Ask Them, Too.
by Logan Jaffe In early January, we at ProPublica Illinois decided to make explaining our jobs part of our jobs. We asked you to send us questions about how journalism works — and since then we’ve...
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We’ve Updated FEC Itemizer. See What’s New.
by Derek Willis and Sisi Wei, ProPublica, and Aaron Bycoffe, special to ProPublica
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How You Can Keep Track of the Money Political Committees Spend at Trump...
by Derek Willis Since the 2016 presidential election, political committees have spent at least $3.1 million at various properties owned by The Trump Organization, including hotels, restaurants, golf...
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Marines Open Investigation into Active-Duty White Supremacist
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Ali Winston, special to ProPublica The U.S. Marine Corps said it has opened a criminal investigation into the activities of Lance Corporal Vasillios Pistolis, 19,...
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Treated Like Trash
by Kiera Feldman, Voice of America, special to ProPublica The body of the young man lay in the middle of Jerome Avenue beneath the elevated train tracks, the scene lit by the neon blue sign above the...
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Get an Inside Look at the Department of Defense’s Struggle to Fix Pollution...
by Abrahm Lustgarten For much of the past two years I’ve been digging into a vast, $70 billion environmental cleanup program run by the U.S. Department of Defense that tracks tens of thousands of...
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“The Making of a Massacre” Brings the Drug War Close
by Ginger Thompson This week, ProPublica and Audible are launching an audio documentary called “The Making of a Massacre.” It’s the story of a vicious attack on a small Mexican ranching town called...
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Before the Blankenship-McConnell Feud, the Senator Aided the Mining Executive
by Alec MacGillis As the race for the West Virginia Republican Senate nomination hurtles toward Tuesday’s primary, candidate Don Blankenship, the former coal executive sentenced to a year in federal...
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