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I’ve Been Interviewing ProPublica Illinois Reporters. Here’s What I’ve Learned.
by Andrea Salcedo I’m Andrea Salcedo, one of this year’s Emerging Reporters at ProPublica Illinois. Landing an academic-year fellowship with ProPublica during my last year as a multimedia journalism...
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Extreme Digital Vetting of Visitors to the U.S. Moves Forward Under a New Name
by George Joseph The Department of Immigration & Customs Enforcement is taking new steps in its plans for monitoring the social media accounts of applicants and holders of U.S. visas. At a tech...
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A Very ProPublica Holiday Gift Guide
by Celeste LeCompte Our staff is incredibly dedicated to investigative journalism. But they also write novels, play music and even pen poetry. Whether you’re looking for some good holiday reads, gifts...
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For Some Victims, Reporting a Rape Can Bring Doubt, Abuse — and Even Prosecution
by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller The women accusing the Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct have faced doubt and derision. Other women, who have alleged sexual assault...
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Why We Had to Buy Racist, Sexist, Xenophobic, Ableist, and Otherwise Awful...
by Ariana Tobin Last week, we bought more than a dozen housing ads excluding categories of people explicitly protected by the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Were these actual ads? No. And as someone who’s...
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Seven Ways Patients Can Protect Themselves From Outrageous Medical Bills
by Marshall Allen A doctor offers a surgical add-on that leads to a $1,877 bill for a young girl’s ear piercing. A patient protests unnecessary scans to identify and treat her breast cysts. A study...
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A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old’s Ears. This Is Why Health...
by Marshall Allen Two years ago, Margaret O’Neill brought her 5-year-old daughter to Children’s Hospital Colorado because the band of tissue that connected her tongue to the floor of her mouth was too...
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ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Reporter Melissa Sanchez
by Andrea Salcedo Melissa Sanchez, who came to ProPublica Illinois from the nonprofit magazine Catalyst Chicago and, later, its sister publication, The Chicago Reporter, believes frankness is the key...
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Hate Crime Training for Police Is Often Inadequate, Sometimes Nonexistent
by A.C. Thompson, Rohan Naik and Ken Schwencke To become a police officer in the U.S., one almost always has to enroll in an academy for some basic training. The typical academy session lasts 25...
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White House May Share Nuclear Power Technology With Saudi Arabia
by Isaac Arnsdorf The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the...
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Facebook to Temporarily Block Advertisers From Excluding Audiences by Race
by Julia Angwin Facebook said it would temporarily stop advertisers from being able to exclude viewers by race while it studies the use of its ad targeting system. “Until we can better ensure that our...
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Reporting Recipe: Bombs in Your Backyard
by Ryann Grochowski Jones and Abrahm Lustgarten For the past year, ProPublica has been documenting the state of toxic pollution left behind by the military across the U.S. As part of this...
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Let’s Make a List of Useful ‘Mediathings’ in Illinois
by Logan Jaffe What is a “mediathing?” Good question, because I just made it up. I’ll lay out in a second what I mean by “mediathing,” but first I want to let you in on my plan. I’m trying to create a...
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The Breakthrough: A Reporter Goes to Ground Zero for Today’s American HIV...
by Joaquin Sapien A few years ago, freelance journalist Linda Villarosa thought she was done covering HIV. She had accomplished plenty — front page stories for The New York Times, articles in Essence...
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More States Hatch Plans to Recycle Drugs Being Wasted in Nursing Homes
by Marshall Allen Inspired by a ProPublica story in April that described how nursing homes and their pharmacies nationwide throw away hundreds of tons of valuable medicines — and how one Iowa...
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Carried Interest Reform Is a Sham
by Allan Sloan Donald Trump isn’t exactly shy when it comes to denouncing things he doesn’t like. And there’s one particular part of the tax code that he denounced over and over both during the...
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A Dubious Arrest, a Compromised Prosecutor, a Tainted Plea: How One Murder...
by Megan Rose The case of Demetrius Smith reads like a preposterous legal thriller: dubious arrests, two lying prostitutes, prosecutorial fouls and a judge who backpedaled out of a deal. It also...
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Why America Fails at Gathering Hate Crime Statistics
by Ken Schwencke In the early hours of June 5, 2015, Gary Bravo was leaving Sammy T’s in downtown Huntsville, Alabama. The club was hosting a gay night because the last of the city’s few gay bars had...
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ProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Reporter Jason Grotto
by Andrea Salcedo Jason Grotto, who came to ProPublica Illinois from the Chicago Tribune, believes journalists must fight to get to the bottom of an issue because “if you’re complacent and just take...
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