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Let Us Know About Voting Problems During the Midterm Elections
by ProPublica The election is only 28 days away. If you’re planning to vote, either on Nov. 6 or during your state’s early voting period, we need you to be our eyes and ears as we look for voting...
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Coming Thursday: How an Acclaimed American Charity Failed Some of the World’s...
by ProPublica Katie Meyler captivated Americans with the stories of girls she met in Monrovia, Liberia, who she said were so poor that they had to sell their bodies just to buy clean drinking water....
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Trump’s Patron-in-Chief: Casino Magnate Sheldon Adelson
by Justin Elliott LATE ON A THURSDAY evening in February 2017, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for his first visit with President Donald Trump....
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Another West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Declines to Step Aside in Another...
by Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette-Mail In another recusal controversy involving the West Virginia Supreme Court and the natural gas industry, a newly appointed justice declined to step aside...
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Confusion for Prairie View A&M Students on the Last Day for Voter Registration
Days before the voter registration deadline in Texas, Waller County realized half of registered students at Prairie View A&M, a local, historically black university, were being sent to the wrong...
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Citizens Count on the Illinois Freedom of Information Act but Keep Getting...
by Mick Dumke When Larry Young started requesting records from police, he just wanted to find out what had happened to his daughter, Molly. More than six years after the 21-year-old was found shot to...
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“They’ve Got to Execute You”: St. Luke’s Doctor Faces Discipline After...
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Dr. Tomas Rios was upset. He believed that some of his patients at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center had received unnecessary...
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Arrest Throws Texas Voter Registration Dispute Into Further Confusion
A campaign staffer for a Texas Democratic congressional candidate was briefly arrested at the Waller County Courthouse after delivering a letter demanding that the county address problems with the...
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It’s Our Birthday
by Louise Kiernan Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Discover what makes Illinois tick from our team of investigative journalists covering the state. Delivered every Friday. This week,...
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Chasing Leads and Herding Cats: Shaping a New Role in the Newsroom
by Rachel Glickhouse In this ever-changing industry, new roles are emerging that redefine how we do journalism: audience engagement director, social newsgathering reporter, Snapchat video producer. At...
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Sloan Kettering Cancer Researchers Correct the Record by Revealing Company Ties
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times Top researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have filed at least six corrections with medical journals recently,...
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ProPublica Illinois Wins 3rd Place in 2018 Ruderman Foundation Awards for...
by ProPublica The National Center on Disability and Journalism announced that the ProPublica Illinois project “Stuck Kids” won third place in the 2018 Ruderman Foundation Awards for Excellence in...
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More Than Me CEO Katie Meyler Temporarily Steps Down
by Finlay Young for ProPublica Katie Meyler, the founder of More Than Me, temporarily stepped down from her position as the American charity’s chief executive officer pending the results of a Liberian...
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Nearly 1 in 10 Mail Ballots Thrown Out in Georgia County
Election officials in Gwinnett County, Georgia, have thrown out almost one in 10 of the vote-by-mail ballots cast. Officials cannot explain why, though they deny it was done out of malice. Citizens...
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Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, and Erica Green, The New York Times CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — High school seniors Zyahna Bryant and Trinity Hughes have been friends since they were 6 years old, raised by...
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Voter Purges: What Georgians Heading to the Polls Need to Know
by Blake Paterson Charges of voter suppression have been levied in the governor’s race in Georgia in recent weeks, pitting the secretary of state and GOP candidate Brian Kemp against critics,...
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Voter Registration Around Austin Smashed Records. That May Be a Problem.
by Jessica Huseman Travis County, Texas — the home of Austin — has experienced a massive spike in voter registrations this cycle, which officials there attribute to the heightened interest in the...
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Pump and Trump
by Heather Vogell, ProPublica, with Andrea Bernstein and Meg Cramer, WNYC, and Peter Elkind, ProPublica Since Donald Trump’s fortunes came surging back with the success of “The Apprentice” 14 years...
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