Los Desaparecidos
por Hannah Dreier Otra versión de este reportaje fue publicada en conjunto con Newsday y también se puede escuchar una nota basada en el mismo en el programa This American Life. Al principio, el grupo...
View ArticleCancer Center Switches Focus on Fundraising as Problems Mount
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has abruptly changed the focus of an annual fundraising campaign amid a widening crisis...
View ArticleElliott Broidy’s All-Access Pass — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast
by Eric Umansky “Trump, Inc.” is back. Our podcast with WNYC focused earlier this year on the many mysteries around President Donald Trump’s businesses. This season, we’re widening the lens to look at...
View ArticleHow the Orlando Fire Department’s Active Shooter Policy Fell Through the Cracks
by Abe Aboraya, WMFE Since 2005, the Orlando Fire Department has trained its paramedics on how to work with police officers to rescue victims from active shooter situations. In 2013, administrators...
View ArticleOrlando Paramedics Didn’t Go In to Save Victims of the Pulse Shooting. Here’s...
by Abe Aboraya, WMFE “I need the hospital! Please, why does someone not want to help?” The man’s screams inside the Pulse nightclub pierced the chaos in the minutes after the shooting stopped on June...
View ArticleHas the Internet Changed Fact-Checking? Well, It Depends.
by Duaa Eldeib At the beginning of the 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,...
View ArticleThe Child Abuse Contrarian
by David Armstrong In September 2016, Jenn Thompson and her boyfriend, Robbie Ray, discovered that she was pregnant. They had met just over a month earlier, through the dating app Tinder, and quickly...
View ArticleHow Effective Is Your Representative?
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa Hello, and welcome back to another edition of A User’s Guide to Democracy! If you’re new here, you can check out our previous pieces on what you need to know about political...
View Article“A Never-Ending Commitment”: The High Cost of Preserving Vulnerable Beaches
by Lisa Song and Al Shaw As lawmakers consider disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Florence, projects to rebuild North Carolina’s shrunken shorelines are likely to get a healthy chunk of...
View Article“Jobs Alliance,” Funded by Trump Backer, Tries to Block Gas Plants That Would...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail Three years ago, a group of residents in West Virginia’s northern panhandle formed a new group, the Ohio Valley Jobs Alliance, and declared themselves a...
View ArticleSouthbound on the Amtrak Saluki, and Getting to Know Illinois
by Logan Jaffe Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Discover what makes Illinois tick from our team of investigative journalists covering the state. Delivered every Friday. I’m writing from the...
View ArticleChallenged by Long Island Lawmakers, Police Will Look Into Treatment of...
by Hannah Dreier At the behest of county lawmakers, the Suffolk County Police Department said Thursday it will look into what went wrong when Latino families came to the department in 2016 and 2017,...
View ArticleFacing Crisis, Sloan Kettering Tells Exec to Hand Over Profits From Biotech
by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica A vice president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has to turn over to the hospital nearly $1.4 million of a windfall...
View ArticleHow Are Things at the IRS? Help Us Get the Real Story.
by ProPublica ProPublica would like to hear from people who have worked at the Internal Revenue Service or are otherwise knowledgeable about tax enforcement. Reporters Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel...
View ArticleAfter Budget Cuts, the IRS’s Work Against Tax Cheats is Facing “Collapse”
by Jesse Eisinger and Paul Kiel Tax evasion is at the center of the criminal cases against two associates of the president, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen. The sheer scale of their efforts to avoid...
View ArticleProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Is Looking for the Best Accountability...
by Charles Ornstein The past year has seen yet more cutbacks at local news organizations. One bright spot, we’d like to think, has been our Local Reporting Network. It has paid the salary and benefits...
View ArticleCancer Center’s Board Chairman Faults Top Doctor, Saying He “Crossed Lines”
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times The chairman of the board of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center bluntly disparaged the hospital’s former chief medical officer...
View ArticleIn Montana, a Tough Negotiator Proved Employers Don’t Have to Pay So Much for...
by Marshall Allen Marilyn Bartlett took a deep breath, drew herself up to her full 5 feet and a smidge, and told the handful of Montana officials that she had a radical strategy to bail out the...
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