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Why Aren’t Hedge Funds Required to Fight Money Laundering?
by Heather Vogell For many years, the federal government has required banks, brokerages and even casinos to take steps to stop customers from using them to clean dirty money. Yet one major part of the...
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Students! ProPublica Wants to Pay for You to Attend a Journalism Conference...
by Lena V. Groeger We are proud to announce our fourth annual Diversity Scholarship program. ProPublica will be sponsoring need-based scholarships for 20 students to attend an eligible journalism...
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What ProPublica Is Doing About Diversity in 2019
by Lena V. Groeger, Liz Sharp, Sisi Wei, and Stephen Engelberg ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace as well as of the journalism community more broadly, and each year...
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Ex-Sanitation Salvage Workers Protest: “All We Want Is for Them to Pay Us...
by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica The temperature was barely above zero in the Bronx on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but more than a dozen former garbage workers showed up outside the offices of...
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When Illinois Laws Meet Real People
by Logan Jaffe We’ve had lots going on lately. As you know, last week we published our first investigation into video gambling in Illinois. We’re excited that the story, co-published with WBEZ and the...
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Everybody in Chicago’s Mayor’s Race Says They Want Ticket Reform
by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ Chicago All 14 candidates still in the running to be Chicago’s next mayor are talking about how the city’s vehicle ticketing system burdens...
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A Onetime Rising Democratic Star Faces Questions About Voter Privacy
by Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, and Daniel Desrochers, Lexington Herald-Leader In an appearance on MSNBC in July 2017, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes expressed her vehement...
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Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours
by Jeremy B. Merrill, special to ProPublica, and Ariana Tobin A number of organizations, including ProPublica, have developed tools to let the public see exactly how Facebook users are being targeted...
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Ex-IBM Executive Says She Was Told Not to Disclose Names of Employees Over...
by Peter Gosselin In sworn testimony filed recently as part of a class-action lawsuit against IBM, a former executive says she was ordered not to comply with a federal agency’s request that the...
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OxyContin Maker Explored Expansion Into “Attractive” Anti-Addiction Market
by David Armstrong Not content with billions of dollars in profits from the potent painkiller OxyContin, its maker explored expanding into an “attractive market” fueled by the drug’s popularity —...
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A Power Grab In Kentucky Sparks a Revolt
by Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, and Daniel Desrochers, Lexington Herald-Leader The September 2018 meeting of the Kentucky State Board of Elections was strikingly contentious. There was shouting,...
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“Doubling Down”: With Private Care Push, Trump’s VA Bucks Lawmakers and Some...
by Isaac Arnsdorf When Congress passed a bill last year to transform the Department of Veterans Affairs, lawmakers said they were getting rid of arbitrary rules for when the government would pay for...
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The Curious Case of a Kentucky Cybersecurity Contract
by Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, and Daniel Desrochers, Lexington Herald-Leader In the months after the 2016 elections, state election administrators spent millions of dollars investigating and...
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A “Bittersweet” Moment: Court Says VA Was Wrong in Denying Vietnam Veterans...
by Beena Raghavendran Tens of thousands of Navy veterans didn’t set foot in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, but spent their time on ships patrolling the waters surrounding the country. And for...
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Domineque Ray Is Set to Be Executed Thursday. Did He Ever Really Have a...
by Lauren Gill for ProPublica On the morning of July 29, 1999, 12 men and women filed into the jury box in the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama. The day before, they had convicted Domineque...
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National Press Photographers Association Honors Kathleen Flynn for...
by ProPublica The National Press Photographers Association awarded the NPPA Humanitarian Award to Kathleen Flynn, an independent photographer and documentary filmmaker, for her career covering human...
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Domineque Ray Is Set to Be Executed Thursday. Did He Ever Really Have a...
by Lauren Gill for ProPublica On the morning of July 29, 1999, 12 men and women filed into the jury box in the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama. The day before, they had convicted Domineque...
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Pennsylvania Police Now Limited in Flagging Undocumented Immigrants to ICE
by Kavitha Surana Last year, ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the Pennsylvania State Police had no guidelines preventing troopers from engaging in behavior that raised questions...
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In Elkhart, Indiana, Another Conviction Gets Tossed. The Star Witness Was...
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica A federal appeals court has overturned an attempted murder conviction in Elkhart, Indiana, saying a prosecutor concealed...
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Confidential Memo: Company of Trump Inaugural Chair Sought to Profit From...
by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC The investment firm founded by the chairman of Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, Tom Barrack, developed a plan to profit off its connections to...
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