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In U.S. Trial of Massacre Suspect, a Rare Chance for Guatemalan Justice
by Sebastian RotellaSept. 24: This story has been updated with developments as the trial opened. In a historic case with international repercussions, a federal trial begins today in Southern...
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Support Our Commitment to Investigative Journalism
by Richard Tofel In the last three weeks, ProPublica has published what I hope you'll agree are two extraordinary pieces of investigative journalism -- revelations (in partnership with the New York...
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Nine Ideas to Make Tylenol and Other Acetaminophen Drugs Safer
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Where Did Syria’s Chemical Weapons Come From?
by Jannis BrühlIn the wake of a recent Russian-U.S. deal averting American airstrikes, Syria has begun to answer questions about its chemical weapons stockpile. One thing inspectors don’t have the...
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Five Consumer Resources From Our Acetaminophen Investigation
by Minhee Cho and Christie ThompsonLast week, ProPublica and This American Life published a blockbuster report revealing the inherit risks of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. Each...
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Hospital Ratings Fatigue Part II: Reporting on the Report Cards
by Charles OrnsteinWhen I wrote last week about how journalists should use caution when covering hospital rankings, ratings and report cards, I didn’t appreciate how good my timing was.Days later, the...
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What’s Your Obamacare Story? Help ProPublica Cover the Affordable Care Act
by Charles OrnsteinProPublica intends to follow the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in the coming months. We’d love to hear your story. Please fill out the form below and we may contact you with...
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Answered: Why Two Obama Loyalists Lost Their Health Policies
by Charles OrnsteinKaiser Permanente’s decision to cancel the insurance policies of lifelong Democrats Lee Hammack and JoEllen Brothers generated a flood of interest yesterday. The couple, supporters...
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Health Care Delays Squeeze Patients in State High-Risk Pools
by Charles Ornstein“This is what keeps me up at night,” Tanya Case told me earlier this week.Case is executive director of the Oklahoma Temporary High Risk Pool, funded by the federal government to...
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Personnel Fouls: Sex Discrimination Suits Shake Tennessee Athletics
by Nina MartinFor nearly 40 years, the University of Tennessee’s Lady Vols were a role model for college athletics — everybody’s favorite example of what is possible when a major university devotes...
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Why Doctors Stay Mum About Mistakes Their Colleagues Make
by Marshall AllenPatients don’t always know when their doctor has made a medical error. But other doctors do.A few years ago I called a Las Vegas surgeon because I had hospital data showing which of...
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Obamacare Q&A: ‘I Don’t Really Think You Could Stop This Law’
by Charles Ornstein Less than a month after President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, he nominated Dr. Donald Berwick to lead its implementation as administrator of the Centers for...
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On ‘Country Club’ Campuses: A Public University Ex-President Shares His...
by Marian WangJames Garland was president of Miami University -- a public university in Ohio -- for a decade, retiring in 2006 after spearheading a number of changes aimed at raising the school’s...
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Coming in January: Obamacare Rate Shock Part Two
by Charles OrnsteinMedia reports about the Affordable Care Act have been dominated by two themes lately: The ongoing glitches with Healthcare.gov and the “rate shock” that some consumers now face...
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How Low Will Health Care Enrollments Be? Here’s What to Watch For
by Charles OrnsteinThis week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is expected to announce the long-awaited enrollment numbers for the first month of the health insurance marketplaces. And...
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Who Are State Dept’s 100 “Special Government Employees”? It Won’t Say
by Justin Elliott and Liz DayEarlier this year, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin drew scrutiny for a special arrangement that allowed her to work part time at the State Department while simultaneously...
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Brushes With the Medical System
by Charles OrnsteinEarlier this year, I wrote about how my mom’s death changed my perspective about end-of-life care. After watching her final days, I no longer felt so certain that society should...
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How to Get Censored on China’s Twitter
中文版:新浪微博:遭遇中国式审查 The word “tank.” Photos and names of Chinese dissidents. Images of rubber ducks. Any mention of Tibetan protests or Bo Xilai, the disgraced senior member of China’s Communist Party....
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Further Reading: Deleted Posts on Weibo
If you are interested in reporting on, or just learning about, how censorship works on Sina Weibo, here are some resources we found useful:Blocked on Weibo, a book and blog by Jason Ng. They both...
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How We Observed Censorship on Sina Weibo
For our project tracking image censorship on Sina Weibo, a popular social networking service in China, ProPublica wrote software to monitor a set of 100 Weibo user accounts to detect censored images.In...
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