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The FBI — ‘Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity’ — Still Working on Diversity
by Topher Sanders For the FBI, the longstanding failure to diversify its ranks is nothing short of “a huge operational risk,” according to one senior official, something that compromises the agency’s...
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Jacksonville Sheriff Admits Race May Have Played a Role in Ticket Writing
by ProPublica Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said this week that “implicit bias” likely played some role in the fact that disproportionate numbers of pedestrian tickets written by his officers in...
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How Health and Education Journalists Can Turn Privacy Laws to Their Advantage
by Annie Waldman For decades, the Judge Rotenberg Center, a school for children with developmental and behavior disorders in Canton, Mass., employed brutal methods to discipline students, including...
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How We Collected Nearly 5,000 Stories of Maternal Harm
by Adriana Gallardo About a year ago, ProPublica and NPR launched Lost Mothers, a project investigating the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth in the U.S. We soon learned that the U.S. was one of the...
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Donald Trump Jr. Pushed ‘Blatantly Illegal’ Project In India, Former Official...
by Eric Umansky, ProPublica, and Andrea Bernstein, WNYC Last month, Donald Trump Jr. visited India to tout new Trump properties. Full page ads in India’s top papers announced, “Trump has arrived. Have...
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A Political Boss Goes Down
by Mick Dumke When it comes to politics, there’s nowhere like Illinois. Throughout the election season, ProPublica Illinois reporter and political junkie Mick Dumke will analyze the state’s political...
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Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios’ Defeat Opens the Door to Reform
by Jason Grotto The ouster of Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios in the Democratic primary Tuesday paves the way for reform at a government agency that has operated for decades with little oversight...
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How the Crowd Led Us to Investigate IBM
by Ariana Tobin and Peter Gosselin Today, we are reporting that over the past five years IBM has been removing older U.S. employees from their jobs, replacing some with younger, less experienced,...
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Eroding Protection Under the Law
by Peter Gosselin At the age of 50, the federal law that seeks to protect older American workers from age bias has been enfeebled by court decisions that have widened loopholes for employers and...
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Warren Buffett Recommends Investing in Index Funds — But Many of His...
by Allan Sloan Warren Buffett, the most successful investor of our time, is a huge fan of low-cost index funds — funds that replicate a market index rather than try to outperform it — as the way for...
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Seeing Journalism Make a Difference in Election Results
by Louise Kiernan I get pretty geeked out about going to vote. I like chatting with the neighbors in line at my polling place, which is a hallway in the middle school both my sons attended. I’m...
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Here’s One Issue Blue and Red States Agree On: Preventing Deaths of Expectant...
by Nina Martin and Robin Fields Alarmed that the U.S. is the most dangerous affluent country in which to give birth, state and local lawmakers around the country are adopting a flurry of bipartisan...
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What ProPublica Is Doing About Diversity in 2018
by Lena Groeger, Sisi Wei and Stephen Engelberg ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace as well as in the journalism community more broadly. We do our best to post an...
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Students! ProPublica Wants to Pay For You to Attend NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA, NAJA or...
by Lena Groeger We are proud to announce our third annual Diversity Scholarship program. ProPublica will be sponsoring need-based scholarships for 21 students to attend the 2018 conferences of the...
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Wilbur Ross Overruled Career Officials at Census Bureau to Add Citizenship...
by Justin Elliott Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’ decision Monday to add a controversial question on citizenship to the 2020 census came in the face of opposition from career officials at the...
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Fair Housing Groups Sue Facebook for Allowing Discrimination in Housing Ads
by Julia Angwin and Ariana Tobin In February 2017, in response to a ProPublica investigation, Facebook pledged to crack down on efforts by advertisers of rental housing to discriminate against tenants...
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The Many Red Flags of Trump’s Partners in India — ‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast
by Eric Umansky President Donald Trump does not like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “It’s a horrible law,” Trump has said. The FCPA makes it a crime for U.S. companies to bribe foreign officials,...
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A Partisan Combatant, a Remorseful Blogger: The Senate Staffer Behind the...
by Robert Faturechi Jason Foster, chief investigative counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, fits a classic Washington profile: A powerful, mostly unknown force at the center of some of the most...
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American Voting Machines Are Old and Vulnerable, But Who Will Pay for New Ones?
by Mac Schneider, Vox, and Kate Rabinowitz, special to ProPublica Congress has approved $380 million to fund state efforts to address the security of election systems ahead of the 2018 midterm...
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