Another Awesome Presidential Responsibility: Selecting Members of the Marine...
by Theodoric Meyer Last week, we reported that President Obama had lagged behind Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in making presidential appointments. Part of the holdup can be attributed to Republican...
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How to Use Google Docs to Help Power Your Reporting
by Amanda Zamora My colleague Blair Hickman and I recently led a workshop on using social media to help power investigative journalism at Columbia School of Journalism’s Social Media Weekend. While...
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Introducing a New Way to Participate in ProPublica’s Journalism
designed by from The Noun Project by Amanda Zamora and Blair Hickman ProPublica is committed to journalism in the public interest and recognizes that you help make much of that journalism possible. So...
View ArticleAfter Sandy, Government Lends to Rebuild in Flood Zones
by Robert Lewis, Special to ProPublica, and Al Shaw, ProPublica This story is being co-published with New York public radio’s WNYC. If Staten Island’s Great Kills Marina Café is able to reopen this...
View ArticleInteractive Map: See Where the Government is Lending after Sandy
by Al Shaw, ProPublica and Robert Lewis, WNYC. See where the over 20,000 SBA rebuilding loans are, half of which fall in FEMA’s new advisory flood zones.
View ArticleEverything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You
by Lois Beckett Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American. They sell information about whether you're pregnant or divorced or trying to lose weight,...
View Article‘Burn the Data’: Did a Company Try to Hide Risks of MRI Dye Omniscan?
by Jeff Gerth March 7: This post has been updated to incorporate a response from GE. In 1994, a scientist studying her company's new medical imaging dye reached troubling findings. Her boss, she...
View ArticleClarence Aaron Still Waiting for Clemency, Months after Report Found Pardon...
by Cora Currier Last week, President Obama pardoned 17 people – a second batch of pardons from a president who has granted clemency at a lower rate than any of his recent predecessors. Among the...
View ArticleDollars for Docs Mints a Millionaire
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein Update Mar. 11, 2013, 4:55 pm: This post has been updated to reflect a response by Dr. Vladimir Maletic to questions from ProPublica. Dr. Jon W. Draud, the medical...
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Dollars for Docs: The Top Earners
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View ArticlePodcast: Steve Brill on Healthcare and the Media in America
by Mike Webb When we heard that Steve Brill had written an in-depth, 26,000 word investigation about the high cost of health care in America, we were a little jealous. After all, longform journalism...
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After a Powerful Lobbyist Intervenes, EPA Reverses Stance on Polluting Texas...
by Abrahm Lustgarten When Uranium Energy Corp. sought permission to launch a large-scale mining project in Goliad County, Texas, it seemed as if the Environmental Protection Agency would stand in its...
View ArticleIs This Man the Next Pope? A Guide to the Best Stories on Cardinal Sean O’Malley
by Christie Thompson Update: Cardinals have elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to become the next pope. Check out National Catholic Reporter's profile of the new leader of the Catholic Church....
View ArticleAn Exchange About California’s Redistricting Process
by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson In December 2011 we published a story about Democrats in Congress influencing the activities of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. Last month, we received...
View ArticleYet Another Bank Fined for a Magnetar Deal, With Yet More Revealing Emails
by Cora Currier .DC-note-container {margin-bottom: 12px;} Deutsche Bank is the latest financial institution to be fined for not warning investors about the role of the hedge fund Magnetar in creating...
View ArticleInside Game: Creating PACs and then Spending Their Money
by Kim Barker In August 2008, as the right wing of the Republican Party grew increasingly disenchanted with the party’s direction, the men from Russo, Marsh and Associates sensed opportunity: They...
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U.N. Think Tank Opening Office in Bahrain, with Bahraini Government Funding
by Justin Elliott As Bahrain enters the third year of a crisis sparked by Arab Spring protests in 2011, the government continues to bar many human rights advocates and journalists from entering the...
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A Colorblind Constitution: What Abigail Fisher’s Affirmative Action Case Is...
by Nikole Hannah-Jones When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as the facts of the...
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