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Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud
by Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, WNYC In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s two eldest children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., found...
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ProPublica Illinois Hires Jane Nicholson as Director of Development
by Cynthia Gordy ProPublica Illinois announced today that Jane Nicholson is joining its staff as director of development. She starts on Oct. 10 and will work closely with the ProPublica fundraising...
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Chamber of Secrets: Teaching a Machine What Congress Cares About
by Jeremy B. Merrill If you asked congressional experts what legislative subjects, say, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington specializes in, they’d have a few pretty good guesses: maybe education and...
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For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In
by Heather Vogell COLUMBUS, Ohio — Last school year, Ohio’s cash-strapped education department paid Capital High $1.4 million in taxpayer dollars to teach students on the verge of dropping out. But on...
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ProPublica is Hiring a Senior Editor to Lead our New Regional Reporting Project
by ProPublica We have just announced a new initiative to help local and regional news organizations produce the kind of accountability reporting that is so vital for our democracy. With support from a...
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ProPublica Creates Local Investigative Reporting Project for Regional Newsrooms
by ProPublica In an effort to support investigative journalism at local and regional news organizations, ProPublica today announced the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. The yearlong initiative will...
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Join ProPublica’s New Project to Work With Local Newsrooms
by ProPublica Over the past several years, economic pressures have reduced the ability of local and regional news organizations to support accountability reporting. That’s a challenge not just for...
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Wells Fargo Offering Refunds Nationwide for Improper Mortgage Fees
by Jesse Eisinger In a scandal that extended wider than was previously known, Wells Fargo said it would offer refunds to tens of thousands of customers who were improperly charged fees on home...
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Who’s Really in Charge of the Voting Fraud Commission?
by Jessica Huseman On Friday, in response to a judge’s order, the Department of Justice released data showing the authors, recipients, timing, and subject lines of a group of emails sent to and from...
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For-Profit Schools Reward Students for Referrals and Facebook Endorsements
by Heather Vogell Lyla Elkins transferred to North Nicholas High School in Cape Coral, Florida, in 2016 with hopes of sailing through its computer-based courses and graduating early. She didn’t...
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The Breakthrough: How a Reporter Uncovered Widespread Russian Meddling — In...
by Joaquin Sapien In the spring of 2016, a Russian government chemist named Grigory Rodchenkov sat across from Rebecca Ruiz of The New York Times and gave her the kind of scoop journalists dream of....
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Vegas Judge Featured in ProPublica Story Reprimanded for Ethics Violations
by Megan Rose A former Las Vegas prosecutor whose misconduct in a wrongful murder conviction was detailed in a ProPublica and Vanity Fair story in May has been rebuked again, this time for his conduct...
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Electionland Wins Online Journalism Award
by ProPublica ProPublica and the Electionland coalition won an Online Journalism Award for planned news/events, announced at the Online News Association Conference and Awards Banquet on Saturday. A...
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‘Partisan’ Gerrymandering Is Still About Race
by Olga Pierce and Kate Rabinowitz The Wisconsin voting rights case before the Supreme Court has been cast as the definitive test of whether partisan gerrymandering is permitted by the Constitution....
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How the CIA Staged Sham Academic Conferences to Thwart Iran’s Nuclear Program
by Daniel Golden The CIA agent tapped softly on the hotel room door. After the keynote speeches, panel discussions and dinner, the conference attendees had retired for the night. Audio and visual...
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ProPublica Illinois Begins Regular Publishing, Announces New Partnerships
by ProPublica ProPublica Illinois, the first regional publishing operation of the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica, launched today with a look inside a gun trafficking case in Chicago. The site will...
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Welcome to ProPublica Illinois
by Louise Kiernan Rohan Patrick McDonald for ProPublica Today, with our story about gun trafficking in Chicago, produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and the Chicago Sun-Times, we are officially...
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How Chicago Gets Its Guns
by Mick Dumke John Thomas set up the deal the way he had arranged nearly two dozen others. A friend said he wanted to buy as many guns as he could, so Thomas got in touch with someone he knew who had...
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Facebook Allowed Questionable Ads in German Election Despite Warnings
by Stefanie Dodt, special to ProPublica, Jeff Larson and Julia Angwin, ProPublica On Sept. 15, nine days before the elections in Germany, the Green party complained to Facebook about a popular series...
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Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group’s Campaign of Menace
by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham for ProPublica It was about 10 a.m. on Aug. 12 when the melee erupted just north of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia....
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