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Pressure Mounts on Insurance Companies to Consider Their Role in Opioid Epidemic
by Charles Ornstein A prominent Democratic lawmaker asked major health insurers today whether their policies and preferred prescription drug lists have made the nation’s opioid epidemic worse. Rep....
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Defining ‘Downstate’ Illinois
by Logan Jaffe I’ve got an itch I need to scratch. It’s bugged me since I first moved to Chicago in the summer of 2012. It’s that word in the headline up there (duh): Downstate. What do people mean...
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The Breakthrough: Curiosity Drove Her to Call 1,000 People
by Jessica Huseman The investigation started modestly enough — with documents anyone could have seen. Buried amid the public financial records of Universal Health Services, the largest psychiatric...
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Federal Judge Unseals New York Crime Lab’s Software for Analyzing DNA Evidence
by Lauren Kirchner A federal judge this week unsealed the source code for a software program developed by New York City’s crime lab, exposing to public scrutiny a disputed technique for analyzing...
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The DEA Says It Came Under Fire During a Deadly Drug Raid. Its Own Video...
by Mattathias Schwartz, special to ProPublica The Drug Enforcement Administration has for five years steadfastly defended the behavior of its agents in a late-night drug seizure carried out with...
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How Many American Women Die From Causes Related to Pregnancy or Childbirth?...
by Robin Fields and Joe Sexton The questions are straightforward, with public health implications that would seem impossible to shrug off. How many American women die each year from causes related to...
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The Voter Fraud Commission Wants Your Data — But Experts Say They Can’t Keep...
by Jessica Huseman and Derek Willis The voter-fraud-checking program championed by the head of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity suffers from data security flaws that could...
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ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Reporter Duaa Eldeib
by Andrea Salcedo Duaa Eldeib, who came to ProPublica Illinois from the Chicago Tribune, believes she succeeds as a journalist every time she tells an untold story. In the third of a series of...
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‘This Is Unacceptable’: ProPublica Story on Bankruptcy in Memphis Prompts...
by Paul Kiel Last month, ProPublica published a deep examination of how struggling black Americans are much less likely to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy than their white peers. The story focused...
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For Some Youths, ‘Minor’ Offenses Lead to Major Sentences in Adult Prison
by Duaa Eldeib Seventeen-year-old Jaylan Banks punched a guard at the Illinois Youth Center at Harrisburg as they struggled over a bottle of body wash. David Hayes, 18, spat in a guard’s face. And...
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“Boomtown, Flood Town” Wins Editor & Publisher Award for Best Use of Data
by ProPublica Editor & Publisher announced today that “Boomtown, Flood Town,” a collaboration between ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, won an EPPY Award in the “Best Use of Data/Infographics”...
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Time Spent in Solitary Confinement Drops Dramatically in Illinois Youth...
by Duaa Eldeib After years of sending youths to solitary confinement for days, weeks and even months at a time, the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice has taken drastic steps to reduce the time...
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At Maternal Health Forum, Experts Discuss How to Protect Women From Harm
by Cynthia Gordy This year ProPublica and NPR are investigating why, as maternal mortality has declined around the world, U.S. rates of maternal mortality are on the rise. The ongoing Lost Mothers...
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Announcing Free Videos and Training Materials From the ProPublica Data Institute
by Sisi Wei Though more than a thousand people have applied to ProPublica’s Data Institute, we’ve only been able to accept about 24 in the two years it’s been running. Faced with such a high demand,...
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FEMA Had a Plan for Responding to a Hurricane in Puerto Rico — But It Doesn’t...
by Justin Elliott and Decca Muldowney The Federal Emergency Management Agency, citing unspecified “potentially sensitive information,” is declining to release a document it drafted several years ago...
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Coya Paz of Free Street Theater Receives the $15,000 ProPublica...
by Terry Parris Jr., ProPublica, and Simon Nyi, Illinois Humanities At some point during the process of going through our Engagement Challenge award proposals, someone on the reviewing committee said,...
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A Story From the Saline County Jail
by Duaa Eldeib It was a peaceful ride down to Harrisburg, Illinois. I left early and watched the sun rise as I made my way past the corn fields. I've made the drive to southern Illinois to visit...
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ProPublica Hires Video Journalists Katie Campbell and Nadia Sussman
by ProPublica ProPublica has expanded its film, TV and digital video team with the hiring of Katie Campbell and Nadia Sussman, who are joining the nonprofit newsroom as video journalists. They will...
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Cook County Assessor: Office Cuts Make It Tough to Get Tax Bills Out On Time
by Jason Grotto With cuts to his office looming after the demise of Cook County’s controversial soda tax, Assessor Joseph Berrios testified Friday about his efforts to shed positions in an office that...
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Info Wars: Inside the Left’s Online Efforts to Out White Supremacists
by Decca Muldowney “Fallon” is not her real name. It’s a pseudonym she’s using because she wants to remain anonymous. She knows that can be an elusive goal, chiefly because of people not unlike her....
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