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Long Island Schools Move to Curb Police Role in Detaining Immigrant Students
by Hannah Dreier In an effort to prevent immigrant students from being detained and deported on questionable evidence of gang involvement, a Long Island school district is taking the lead in...
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ProPublica Hires Reporter Ava Kofman to Cover Technology
by ProPublica ProPublica announced Thursday that Ava Kofman is joining its staff as a reporter covering technology. She starts on Jan. 21. Kofman joins ProPublica from The Intercept, where she was a...
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Scientists Call for Drastic Drop in Emissions. U.S. Appears to Have Gone the...
by Abrahm Lustgarten The signals are blaring: Dramatic changes to our climate are well upon us. These changes — we know thanks to a steady drumbeat of alarming official reports over the past 12 months...
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We’re Expanding Our Washington Coverage
by ProPublica We’re going to be digging more into the work of the federal government. And we’re hiring reporters and an editor in Washington, D.C., to do it. We won’t be covering the latest outrage or...
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Curbs Executives’ Ties to Industry After...
by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, one of the world’s leading research institutions, announced on Friday that it would bar...
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Nation’s Largest Mental Health Organization Urges Supported Housing Reforms
by Joaquin Sapien The National Alliance on Mental Illness has asked U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis to make “adjustments and modifications” to an ambitious plan to move mentally ill New Yorkers...
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St. Luke’s in Houston Replaces Its President, Other Top Leaders After Series...
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center has ousted its president, its chief nursing officer and a top physician following numerous...
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What Engagement Reporting Does — and Doesn’t — Mean at ProPublica
by Ariana Tobin, Adriana Gallardo, Logan Jaffe and Beena Raghavendran When you’re directly affected by an issue, you often know a lot about it. You can have information, leads and stories. Sometimes,...
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What We Learned From the First Year of the Local Reporting Network
by Charles Ornstein The crisis in local news has become one of the most pressing issues in modern journalism, with academics and other observers questioning whether democracy itself can survive the...
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How We Analyzed Video Gambling in Illinois
by Sandhya Kambhampati and Jason Grotto For our series, “The Bad Bet: How Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost,” ProPublica Illinois examined video gambling across the state, the impact slot and...
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Do You Know Someone Struggling With Video Gambling? Help Us Understand Video...
by Logan Jaffe If you live in Illinois, you've probably noticed: Video gambling machines are almost everywhere. From bars, restaurants, truck stops, pizza parlors, fraternal organizations and all...
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How Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost
by Jason Grotto and Sandhya Kambhampati, ProPublica, and Dan Mihalopoulos, WBEZ With the last streaks of daylight fading on a mild October evening, the cars pulled up in waves at Piero’s Italian...
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Two New Lawsuits Allege Surgical Errors During Heart Transplants at St....
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Two new lawsuits have been filed against Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center by patients who say they suffered serious injuries as...
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The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree.
by Ryan Gabrielson At the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, a team of about a half-dozen technicians analyzes pictures down to their pixels, trying to determine if the faces, hands, clothes or...
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Austin Police Department Orders Deeper Investigation After Audit Finds It...
by Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting WASHINGTON — The Austin Police Department will ask a third...
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As the Cabinet Churns: Who’s Still Standing Among Trump’s Top Advisers
by Rob Weychert and Anjali Tsui
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Long-Lost Records Surface in Wrongful Conviction Case, Detailing Lead...
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica Newly released documents show the lead detective in an Elkhart, Indiana, police investigation that led to a pair of wrongful...
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Correction: Stories on Insanity Defense Included Factual Errors and...
by ProPublica and The Malheur Enterprise Over the past year, the Malheur Enterprise and ProPublica published a series of stories about Oregon’s handling of people found “guilty except for insanity.”...
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Former MS-13 Member Who Secretly Helped Police Is Deported
by Hannah Dreier Henry was twice forced to join the brutal gang MS-13, first in El Salvador and then on Long Island. Twice, he tried to escape its violence. He became an informant, helping law...
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ProPublica Wins John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence...
by ProPublica ProPublica’s multipart investigation on flawed federal and local law enforcement practices in the struggle against the MS-13 gang won the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award...
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