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Introducing Our New Podcast: The Breakthrough

We started this podcast seven years ago. The idea, honestly, was to create another platform to promote our work. But we realized something along way: It can be really interesting to hear how reporters have figured out their stories — the stonewalling they’ve faced, the wrong roads they’ve taken, and the moment when they figured it all out.

Now, we’re relaunching our show with that as our focus. We’ll be pulling back the curtain on the most compelling, powerful investigative journalism from newsrooms around the country.

We’re calling it The Breakthrough. We’re kicking things off today with two ProPublica reporters, Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders, talking about how they discovered police departments nationwide use a $2 test for detecting drugs that can send innocent people to jail. Listen to the first episode.

In the next two weeks we’ll hear how a reporter helped catch a serial killer, and how another snuck into North Korea to tell stories from the Hermit Kingdom.

We’re all excited about the show, and we want your help to make it the best it can be. Email us your suggestions — including which reporters we should ask to talk with us. Hit us up at [email protected].

Listen to this podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher.

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Kate Brown

Kate Brown is ProPublica’s office and newsroom assistant. She also produces ProPublica’s weekly podcast.

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