After Baby’s Death, Rhode Island 911 Operators May Receive Enhanced Training
by Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island’s state police superintendent is recommending that all of the state’s 911 call takers be trained to provide emergency medical...
View ArticleHe Helped Wrongfully Convict a Vegas Man. Two Decades Later, His Daughter...
by Megan Rose If all goes as expected, this summer, the governor of Nevada will sign a bill that will compensate men and women wrongfully convicted in the state for the years they spent behind bars...
View ArticleIda B. Wells Society and ProPublica Announce the 2019 Data Institute
by ProPublica The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica announced Monday that applications are open for The Data Institute, a 12-day intensive workshop on how to use data,...
View ArticleMany People are Too Broke for Bankruptcy. A New Report Suggests Some Fixes.
by Paul Kiel It’s tax season. That also means it’s bankruptcy season. Every year, bankruptcy filings peak in March and stay elevated in April, as people use their precious tax refunds to finally...
View ArticleProPublica and Partners Win Pulitzer Prize for MS-13 Coverage
by ProPublica The Pulitzer Prize Board announced Monday that three articles in ProPublica’s “Trapped in Gangland” series on MS-13 by reporter Hannah Dreier won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature...
View ArticleCook County Judge Loosens Unusual Restrictions on Publishing Details of Child...
by Mick Dumke and Steve Mills A Cook County judge Monday lifted part of her previous order prohibiting ProPublica Illinois from publishing some details of a child welfare case it has been...
View ArticleMentally Ill New Yorkers Seeking Independence Find Safety Net Has Holes,...
by Joaquin Sapien New York state officials are behind in investigating incidents where mentally ill New Yorkers may have come to harm, according to an independent report filed in Brooklyn federal...
View ArticleTSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body...
by Brenda Medina, ProPublica, and Thomas Frank, special to ProPublica Dorian Wanzer travels frequently for work. And almost every time she steps out of an airport body scanner, security screeners pull...
View ArticleIn a Time of Cheap Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power Companies Are Seeking — and...
by Talia Buford The energy company PSEG had a simple message for the New Jersey Legislature as it weighed the fate of three nuclear plants in the state. “What’s good for New Jersey is what’s good for...
View ArticleHow the IRS Gave Up Fighting Political Dark Money Groups
by Maya Miller, special to ProPublica In the past decade, people, companies and unions have dispensed more than $1 billion in dark money, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The very...
View ArticleNuclear Lobbying Power: NJ Utility Customers Will Pay $300M In Subsidies
by Talia Buford TRENTON, N.J. — After a long, expensive lobbying effort over the fate of nuclear power in New Jersey, the energy company PSEG on Thursday secured $300 million in subsidies for the...
View ArticleZero Tolerance: Inside the Secretive Network of Immigrant Youth Shelters in...
by Logan Jaffe This week, ProPublica’s reporting on the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism (and ProPublica reporter...
View ArticleProPublica Wins John Bartlow Martin Award for MS-13 Coverage
by ProPublica ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier is the winner of the 2019 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism for her series “Trapped in Gangland” on MS-13. The series...
View ArticleMueller Went Looking for a Conspiracy, What He Found Was Conflict and a...
by Katie Zavadski and Heather Vogell On Thursday, the “Trump, Inc.” team gathered with laptops, pizza and Post-its to disconnect — and to read special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. What we found...
View ArticleMore Than Me Founder and CEO Katie Meyler Resigns
by Finlay Young for ProPublica Katie Meyler, the CEO and founder of More Than Me, has resigned six months after a ProPublica investigation revealed her charity missed opportunities to prevent the...
View ArticleHere’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes
by Justin Elliott and Lucas Waldron Did you know that if you make less than $66,000 a year, you can prepare and file your taxes for free? No? That’s no accident. Companies that make tax preparation...
View ArticleProPublica Illinois Earns National Headliner Awards Recognition and Two...
by ProPublica Illinois Four ProPublica Illinois projects were recognized Monday by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative Reporting and the National Headliner Awards. Administered...
View ArticleProPublica’s Hannah Dreier Wins Hillman Prize and Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize
by ProPublica The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced Tuesday that ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier is the winner of the Hillman Prize in the magazine category for “Trapped in Gangland.” Co-published...
View ArticleIf You Paid TurboTax but Make Under $34,000, You Could Get a Refund. Here’s...
by Justin Elliott We recently laid out how TurboTax uses deceptive design and misleading ads to get people to pay to file their taxes, even when they are eligible to file for free. But you might be...
View ArticleProPublica “Zero Tolerance” Series Wins First-Ever Peabody Catalyst Award
by ProPublica The ProPublica series “Zero Tolerance” on the Trump administration’s family separation policy was awarded on Tuesday the first-ever Peabody Catalyst Award for bringing immediate change...
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