Podcasts
The ProPublica Podcast
Featured
All Entries
-
How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
3M knew that harmful “forever chemicals” had seeped into people’s blood decades ago and continued making them. A former company scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how a global environmental crisis was kept under wraps.
-
The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building
In the middle of the night, hundreds of agents stormed a Chicago apartment complex, some rappelling down from a helicopter. Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested Venezuelan gang members. But our reporters uncovered a very different story.
-
How “Forgive and Forget” Buried a Church’s Dark Secret
A man was convicted of abusing girls in his church. Preachers had known about the allegations for years. Some of the abuse even reportedly took place in the pews during services. So why did they never report him to the police?
-
How Microsoft’s “Little Workaround” Created a Major Pentagon Threat
Reporter Renee Dudley heard Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, the country’s biggest cybersecurity adversary. She thought it sounded like a conspiracy theory — until she started looking into it.
-
Should People Who Killed Their Abusers Walk Free?
From behind bars, April Wilkens successfully advocated for a new Oklahoma law offering a pathway to freedom if she and her domestic violence “survivor sisters” could prove abuse contributed to their crimes. But that wasn’t the end of the story.
-
How a 25-Cent Cancer Pill Became a Hundred-Billion-Dollar Business
Reporter David Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer and soon learned that one of his drugs sold for almost $1,000 per pill — despite the fact it cost just pennies to make. What he found out helps explain why our healthcare system is the most expensive in the world.
-
How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial With a Little-Known Tool
Healthcare reporter Duaa Eldeib tells the story of one couple’s long battle with their health insurer — and the little-known tool buried deep in their insurance coverage booklet that helped them finally win.
-
How to Lose a Car in 15 Days
Connecticut drivers kept reporting their cars were towed from their apartment complexes and then sold about two weeks later. Reporters from The Connecticut Mirror teamed up with ProPublica to investigate.
-
What the FDA Won’t Tell You About Your Medications
For years, the Food and Drug Administration told the public that generic medications are just as safe and effective as the brand-name versions. But ProPublica reporters uncovered information that proves this isn’t always true.
-
Coming From ProPublica and WNYC: ‘Trump, Inc.,’ the Podcast
In the new podcast “Trump, Inc.,” WNYC Studios and ProPublica jointly investigate and report on the central mysteries of the Trump Organization, laying out what we know, what we don't and how you can help fill in the gaps.
-
The Breakthrough: A Reporter Goes to Ground Zero for Today’s American HIV Epidemic
Linda Villarosa had spent decades covering the spread of AIDS. She thought she was done. Then, she visited Jackson, Mississippi.
-
The Breakthrough: Used as ‘Guinea Pigs’ by the U.S. Military, Then Discarded
During World War II, the government subjected thousands of troops to mustard gas tests — and kept it a secret. More than 60 years later, an NPR reporter and researcher helped the men get justice.
-
The Breakthrough: How Journalists in the Virgin Islands Covered the Disaster Happening to Them
Hurricanes Irma and Maria slammed the Virgin Islands within days of each other, leaving almost everyone without power, internet or phones. Still, The Virgin Islands Daily News pressed on.
-
The Breakthrough: Curiosity Drove Her to Call 1,000 People
BuzzFeed’s Rosalind Adams set out to learn why America’s largest psychiatric hospital chain was under investigation. Source by source, she built a case that Universal Health Services was locking up people for profit.
-
The Breakthrough: How a Reporter Uncovered Widespread Russian Meddling — In the Olympics
New York Times reporter Rebecca Ruiz scored a confession from a Russian doctor at the center of a doping scandal that spoiled the 2014 Winter Games.
-
The Breakthrough: A Reporter Finds a Man Proven Innocent, But Still Guilty in Eyes of the Law
ProPublica’s Megan Rose tells the story of a Las Vegas circus performer, a drifter and an ambitious prosecutor tangled in a case of wrongful conviction.
-
The Breakthrough: Hopelessness and Exploitation Inside Homes for Mentally Ill
A reporter finds that homes meant to replace New York’s troubled psychiatric hospitals might be just as bad.
-
The Breakthrough: Behind the Scenes of Hillary Clinton’s Failed Bid for President
Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes didn’t know their book would be called ‘Shattered,’ or that their extraordinary access would let them chronicle the mounting signs of a doomed campaign.
-
The Breakthrough: How a Small News Outlet Brought Down the State Hero
VTDigger’s Anne Galloway was suspicious the moment she heard about a too-good-to-be-true development. She didn’t know how right she was.
-
The Breakthrough: Reporting on Life and Death in the Delivery Room
ProPublica reporter Nina Martin and her team used social media and old-fashioned shoe leather to show how the U.S. has the worst maternal death rate in the developed world.
-
The Breakthrough: How an ICIJ Reporter Dug Up the World Bank’s Best Kept Secret
Sasha Chavkin chased it down across three continents, and into places he was warned weren't safe.
-
The Breakthrough: A Reporter Crosses Borders to Uncover Labor Abuse
ProPublica’s Michael Grabell travels from the heart of Ohio to the mountains of Guatemala to track down immigrant workers harmed in American poultry plants.
-
The Breakthrough: Uncovering NYC Cops Making Millions in Suspicious Deals
On our first episode of this season’s The Breakthrough, we talk with WNYC’s Robert Lewis tells us how his reporting triggered an internal investigation of suspicious dealings made by active-duty New York police officers.
-
Our Podcast, The Breakthrough, Is Back
In January, we launched The Breakthrough, which tells the stories behind investigative reporting. And we’re about to start a new season, on June 16.
-
We Want Your Thoughts on Our Podcast
We recently relaunched our podcast, in which journalists tell us how they nailed their biggest stories. Now we want to hear from you.
