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Behind the Headline: Christopher Copolillo
As a student journalist, Christopher Copolillo used Debt By Degrees, ProPublica’s tool for assessing the debt burden colleges put on low-income families, to hold his own university accountable.
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Behind the Headline: Marie McCausland
Marie McCausland experienced painful symptoms days after giving birth, which she recognized from a ProPublica article on maternal mortality. “ProPublica’s reporting literally saved my life,” she said.
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ProPublica Hires Jeremy Kutner as Deputy General Counsel
Jeremy Kutner will be ProPublica’s deputy general counsel.
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Behind the Headline: Deborah Goldberg
ProPublica’s enterprising reporting on fracking gave an attorney the information she needed to address critical environmental issues. “To my mind, ProPublica’s series of articles was the most informative account we had of what was happening with fracking,” she said.
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Behind the Headline: Rebecca Glover
Reporter A.C. Thompson dug into an “unclassified” death after Hurricane Katrina. He found out the victim was shot by police and died in custody. The victim’s aunt, Rebecca Glover, is grateful for the attention the case received but worries about others who haven’t seen justice.
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Behind the Headline: Bil Musgrave
Bil Musgrave, a retired coal miner with cancer, stood to lose his health insurance when a coal company went bankrupt and wanted to use money earmarked for workers’ benefits to cover legal fees and other bills. ProPublica reported the story, the company withdrew the plan and Musgrave kept his health insurance.
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Behind the Headline: Kristen Davis
Kristen Davis wanted someone held accountable after she suffered adverse reactions to a drug used during surgery. She found the ProPublica Patient Safety Community on Facebook and values the support and information shared there.
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Behind the Headline: Isaura Martinez
Isaura Martinez and hundreds of other temp workers shared their stories with ProPublica to shed light on a shadow system harming workers and burdening the economy. “Once the stories came out, it motivated me to continue denouncing these sorts of injustices,” she said.
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First Responders Speak Out About PTSD, Two Years After Pulse Nightclub Shooting
First responders who were on the scene at Pulse shared their consequent struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder at an event co-hosted by ProPublica, 90.7 WMFE and the Orlando Public Library.
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An Evening of Stories and Conversations on Hate in Southern California
Co-hosted by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, education correspondent for KPCC, and ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson, “Shades of Hate — Then, Now, Tomorrow” brought more than a dozen local scholars, activists, artists and community members together for conversation.
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ProPublica Wins Three Deadline Club Awards
Three ProPublica projects won Deadline Club awards in the annual contest honoring the best work by journalists in the New York City area.
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ProPublica, ProPublica Illinois Win Three Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards
The awards honor exemplary business news reporting published in 2017.
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ProPublica Illinois Wins Four Awards from Chicago Headline Club
The recognitions included the 2017 Watchdog Award for Excellence in Public Interest Reporting, one of the highest honors from the largest chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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ProPublica, WMFE and Orlando Public Library to Host Forum on PTSD in First Responders
On June 6, nearly two years since the Pulse tragedy, 90.7 WMFE, ProPublica and the Orlando Public Library are hosting an event examining the impact of PTSD in the community.
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ProPublica Illinois, Chicago Tribune Win Driehaus Award for Investigative Reporting
The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune project “The Tax Divide” is the winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Investigative Reporting.
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“Sold for Parts” Wins Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
Hunter College announced today that the ProPublica and NPR series “Sold for Parts” won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
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ProPublica’s Rachel Glickhouse Named Livingston Award Finalist
Rachel Glickhouse, the partner manager for ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project, has been named a finalist in this year’s Livingston Awards, which honor outstanding achievement by journalists under the age of 35.
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ProPublica Wins Two Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards
The Radio Television Digital News Association announced today that ProPublica has won two Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism.
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ProPublica Wins Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award
The Society of Professional Journalists announced today that “Lost Mothers,” a project with NPR, has won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism.
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ProPublica Reporter Talia Buford Co-Hosts “Hot Mess,” New PBS Digital Series on Climate Change
PBS Digital Studios launched today its new original YouTube program, “Hot Mess,” dedicated to explaining both the scientific impacts of climate change and how it impacts our daily lives.
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ProPublica/NPR Collaboration a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
The project, "Lost Mothers," is one of nine ProPublica Pulitzer finalists in 10 years of publishing.
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ProPublica Illinois a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The series is the first Pulitzer Prize finalist for ProPublica Illinois, a nonprofit newsroom that launched just six months ago as ProPublica’s first regional, state-based unit.
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ProPublica Illinois, Chicago Tribune Are Finalists for Driehaus Awards for Investigative Reporting
The ProPublica Illinois and Chicago Tribune investigation “The Tax Divide” has been selected as one of five finalists for the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative Reporting.
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ProPublica’s 2018 Reader Survey
Every year we like to check in with our readers to find out who you are and what you think about us and our reporting.
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ProPublica Illinois, Chicago Tribune Win Taylor Award for Fairness in Journalism for ‘The Tax Divide’
Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation announced that “The Tax Divide” is the winner of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism.
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ProPublica, KPCC In Person Present ‘Shades of Hate — Then, Now, Tomorrow’
On May 30, ProPublica and KPCC In Person are partnering on an event that takes a deep look at the history of hate in Southern California and the experiences of Southern Californians today.
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ProPublica and NPR Win Investigative Reporters and Editors Award
The winning project explored how Florida employers got out of paying workers compensation benefits by using a state law to ensure injured undocumented workers were arrested or deported.
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ProPublica’s ‘Too Broke for Bankruptcy’ Wins ASNE Award
The series showed that the bankruptcy system routinely fails those it is meant to aid.
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‘Walking While Black’ Wins Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting
A collaboration with the Florida Times Union, the project showed that Jacksonville police use pedestrian tickets in a racially disproportionate way.
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ProPublica Wins Five SABEW Awards for Business Journalism
Our work was honored in the health/science, investigative, technology, banking/finance and explanatory categories.
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Apply to Be ProPublica’s Newest Design Fellow and Help Build Our Local Reporting Network
Work with our award-winning Design & Production team to support our local journalism initiative.
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ProPublica, NPR ‘Lost Mothers’ Series Wins Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
The series explored why the U.S., which spends more per capita on health care than any other country, also has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world.
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Two Governments That Remained Silent — and Three Women Who Refuse to Be Quiet
At a D.C. event, survivors of a Mexican drug cartel massacre, triggered by a botched DEA operation, tell their story.
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ProPublica Is Seeking Fellows for Its Electionland Project
We are looking for data and reporting fellows to join one of America’s most innovative and fun investigative newsrooms to work on covering the 2018 election.
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ProPublica Wins AHCJ Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
The Association of Health Care Journalists announced that ProPublica’s ‘Wasted Medicine’ series won the award in the consumer/feature category.
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ProPublica’s ‘Documenting Hate’ Named a Finalist for 2017 Scripps Howard Topic of the Year Award
The pioneering initiative formed a coalition of newsrooms to address one of the most urgent and least understood corners of America’s criminal justice experience: hate crimes.
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ProPublica and NPR’s ‘Lost Mothers’ Wins Polk Award for Medical Reporting
This marks the sixth Polk Award for ProPublica.
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Reporter David Armstrong to Cover Health Care for ProPublica
Armstrong comes to ProPublica from STAT, where he was a senior enterprise reporter and wrote extensively about the opioid crisis.
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ProPublica Wins February Sidney Award for “Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection”
The monthly honor recognizes “outstanding journalism that fosters social and economic justice.”
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ProPublica Wins 35 Society for News Design Awards of Excellence
The annual competition honors journalistic, visual and technical excellence from publications around the world.
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ProPublica Hires Reporter Caroline Chen to Cover Health Care
Chen comes to ProPublica from Bloomberg News, where her reporting has focused on the drug industry and the intersection of health care and technology.
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ProPublica and WNYC Studios Announce ‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast Series
The 12-episode podcast series, examining the relationship between Donald Trump’s presidency and his family’s business empire, debuts today with an episode on grappling with conflicts of interest.
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ProPublica Projects Are Finalists for Three National Magazine Awards
ProPublica was recognized in both the Public Interest and Reporting categories.
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ProPublica, NPR ‘Lost Mothers’ Series is a Finalist for Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
The series illuminated a national disgrace: The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and up to 60 percent of those deaths are preventable.
