ProPublica announced Tuesday that Molly Hensley-Clancy has been hired as a higher education reporter on the national desk. She starts on March 16.
Hensley-Clancy joins ProPublica after five years as a sports investigations reporter for The Washington Post. She wrote about allegations of abuse, sexual misconduct and violence in professional and youth sports. Her coverage of allegations against multiple coaches in the National Women’s Soccer League won the IRE Award for Sports Investigations in 2022.
Previously, she was a reporter at BuzzFeed News covering fraud and misconduct in higher education. She revealed the story of a visa mill that faked students’ grades, helping lead to the shutdown of a national college accreditor, and her reporting on widespread misconduct by for-profit colleges spurred a movement for mass student-debt forgiveness for students at Everest College and other schools. She moved to the politics beat in 2017 to cover the presidential election as a national campaign reporter.
Hensley-Clancy grew up in South Minneapolis and attended Yale University.
“Molly brings both expertise in covering higher education and a passion for accountability journalism,” Senior Editor Sarah Childress said. “I am thrilled to welcome such a gifted reporter to our team.”
“I’m so excited to be joining such an incredibly accomplished, well-resourced newsroom and for the opportunity to return to the higher education beat at such a critical moment,” Hensley-Clancy said.
