The 10 Best 2015 Investigative Reports on Political Money
by Robert Faturechi The millions of dollars being spent on the presidential race by super PACs, secretive nonprofits and the candidates themselves could again make this election cycle the most...
View ArticleNew Jersey Psychology Practice Revealed Patients’ Mental Disorders in Debt...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The New York Times. When a New Jersey lawyer named Philip received legal papers last year informing him that his former psychologist’s practice was...
View ArticleAbout That Unbelievable Story
by Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, and Bill Keller, The Marshall Project Our two news organizations, ProPublica and The Marshall Project, recently teamed up on an investigative story, “An Unbelievable...
View ArticleHow Almost Getting Scooped Brought Two Competing Reporters Together
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} ProPublica and The Marshall Project recently collaborated on a remarkable feat of reporting, An...
View ArticleCongressman Presses Red Cross CEO For Answers On Impact of Downsizing
by Justin Elliott A key congressman who sits on a committee that oversees the American Red Cross is pressing the group’s chief executive for information about how layoffs and other cuts have affected...
View ArticleThe Long Game in Washington and More in MuckReads Weekly
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
View ArticleAt Capital One, Easy Credit and Abundant Lawsuits
by Paul Kiel This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. Several years ago, Capital One gave Oscar Parsons, 46, his first credit card. At the time, he didn’t need a loan. But he banked at a...
View ArticleFew Consequences For Health Privacy Law’s Repeat Offenders
by Charles Ornstein and Annie Waldman This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. When CVS Health customers complained to the company about privacy violations, some of the calls and letters...
View ArticleHIPAA Helper
by Charles Ornstein , Mike Tigas and Annie Waldman Who is Revealing Your Private Medical Information?
View Article‘All of This Because Somebody Got Hurt at Work’
by Michael Grabell LAS VEGAS — A scantily clad acrobat dangles from the ceiling, performing flips and splits as machines puff smoke and neon lights bathe the dance floor in turquoise and magenta....
View ArticleAnother VA Headache: Privacy Violations Rising at Veterans’ Medical Facilities
by Annie Waldman and Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with NPR's Shots blog. When Anthony McCann opened a thick manila envelope from the Department of Veterans Affairs last year, he...
View ArticleNYC Lets Luxury Building Owners Stiff Workers and Still Get a Tax Break
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun When Isaac Bowman got a concierge job at a luxury Queens apartment building last year, he hoped it would be his ticket out of a homeless shelter and into New...
View ArticleFarrah Fawcett Was Right — We Have Little Medical Privacy
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Seven years ago, I sat across from Farrah Fawcett in the living room of her Los Angeles condo. In what would be her last media...
View ArticleWhy Small Debts Matter So Much To Black Lives
by Paul Kiel This story was co-published with The New York Times’ Sunday Review. If you are black, you’re far more likely to see your electricity cut, more likely to be sued over a debt, and more...
View ArticleThe Consequences for Violating Patient Privacy in California? Depends Where...
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with The Sacramento Bee and KPCC. In 2008, outraged by a string of snooping incidents involving celebrities’ medical records, California legislators...
View ArticleHow Denmark Dumped Medical Malpractice and Improved Patient Safety
by Olga Pierce and Marshall Allen COPENHAGEN — It was a distressingly close call. A patient had been sent home from the hospital with instructions to take a common medication at a dose that would have...
View ArticleThe Best MuckReads of 2015
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } We've rounded up some of the best reporting from other news organizations in 2015. What...
View ArticleOut of Options, California Ships Hundreds of Troubled Children Out of State
by Joaquin Sapien At 14, Deshaun Becton’s life is a roadmap to California’s faltering efforts to care for its most troubled children. Over more than a dozen turbulent years, he lived with a half-dozen...
View ArticleReporting Lessons From the Front Lines
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Investigative reporter Serge Kovaleski is known as the Mariano Rivera of the New York Times – its...
View ArticleThe 2015 ProPublica Year in Visual Storytelling
by Scott Klein and David Sleight ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Early layout sketches for Killing the Colorado. (David Sleight/ProPublica) The 2015 ProPublica Year in...
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