Officers
Stephen Engelberg, Editor-in-Chief
Stephen Engelberg was the founding managing editor of ProPublica from 2008–2012, and became editor-in-chief on January 1, 2013. He came to ProPublica from The Oregonian in Portland, where he had been a managing editor since 2002. Before joining The Oregonian, Mr. Engelberg worked for The New York Times for 18 years, including stints in Washington, D.C., and Warsaw, Poland, as well as in New York. He is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Richard Tofel, President
Richard Tofel was the founding general manager of ProPublica from 2007–2012, and became president on January 1, 2013. He has responsibility for all of ProPublica’s non-journalism operations, including communications, legal, development, finance and budgeting, and human resources. He was formerly the assistant publisher of The Wall Street Journal and, earlier, an assistant managing editor of the paper, vice president, corporate communications for Dow Jones & Company, and an assistant general counsel of Dow Jones.
Robin Fields, Managing Editor
Robin Fields became managing editor of ProPublica on January 1, 2013. She has overseen projects on political dark money, injection wells, the military’s handling of traumatic brain injuries, police violence in post-Katrina New Orleans, cell tower deaths, and the nation’s troubled system of death investigations. Work she has edited has twice been honored with George Polk Awards, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and IRE. As a reporter, Fields was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for her work on dialysis, which was also honored by IRE and the Society of Professional Journalists and received the Gannett Foundation Award for Innovative Investigative Journalism.
Charles Ornstein, Managing Editor, Local
Charles Ornstein oversees the Local Reporting Network, a unit operated with The Texas Tribune, as well as ProPublica Illinois. From 2008 to 2017, he was a senior reporter covering health care and the pharmaceutical industry, and his coverage garnered a variety of awards.
Ragan Rhyne, Vice President, Development
Ragan Rhyne is ProPublica's vice president, development. With more than 15 years of nonprofit executive experience, Rhyne has effectively developed programs and built relationships for global, national and regional institutions. She most recently served as senior director of development and strategic programming for the International Center of Photography, where she steered organizational and fundraising strategy, managed a portfolio of major donors, and directed special events.
Celeste LeCompte, Vice President of Strategy & Operations
Celeste LeCompte is the vice president of strategy and operations at ProPublica, focused on revenue, partnerships and other strategic initiatives. In her previous roles, she has worked on product development, content strategy and editorial management for numerous media companies, nonprofits and corporate clients.
Scott Klein, Deputy Managing Editor
Scott Klein directs a team of journalist/programmers building large interactive software projects that tell journalistic stories, and that make complex national statistics relevant to readers and their communities. Scott is also co-founder of DocumentCloud, a two-time recipient of the Knight News Challenge.
Ginger Thompson, Chief of Correspondents
Ginger Thompson is ProPublica's chief of correspondents. In addition to reporting and writing, Ginger Thompson oversees ProPublica’s staff development and recruitment efforts. She joined ProPublica from The New York Times in 2014. She has spent much of her career covering Latin America, and her work has won numerous awards.
Eric Umansky, Deputy Managing Editor
Eric Umansky is a deputy managing editor of ProPublica, where he has overseen two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. Most recently, a series he edited on “nuisance abatement” laws won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Umansky also oversees ProPublica’s engagement team, and is also a co-founder of DocumentCloud.
Tracy Weber, Deputy Managing Editor
Tracy Weber helps oversee and maximize projects across the newsroom. Prior to this role, as a senior editor, she guided landmark projects on family separation, jailhouse informants, the dismantling of workers’ compensation and a Mexican massacre touched off by the Drug Enforcement Administration, among others. Work she edited has earned virtually every significant honor in journalism, including the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. As a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Weber won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2005 and was a finalist for the same award at ProPublica in 2010.
Stephanie Little, Vice President, Finance & Administration
Stephanie Little oversees all financial activities for the organization, including financial planning, management and analysis. She also directs human resources policy and benefits administration and brings experience in nonprofit management to the role. Prior to joining ProPublica in March 2016, as director of finance and human resources, her career has spanned such prestigious organizations as The Metropolitan Opera and The New York Times. She holds an MBA in finance and media studies from Fordham University and was named a 92Y Women in Power Fellow in 2018.
Jeremy Kutner, General Counsel
Jeremy Kutner is general counsel at ProPublica, where he provides legal advice on the organization’s full range of activities, with emphasis on its newsroom. He has litigated cases involving libel, freedom of information laws, subpoenas seeking testimony from reporters about sources, and access to sealed documents. Prior to joining ProPublica as deputy general counsel in 2018, Kutner practiced media law at Ballard Spahr (formerly Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schulz), and was a First Amendment Fellow at The New York Times.
Diego Sorbara, Assistant Managing Editor
Diego Sorbara is an assistant managing editor at ProPublica. He helps ensure the consistency and quality of the newsroom’s work and oversees freelance reporting expenditures and production. Sorbara joined ProPublica in 2018 as the newsroom's first standards editor after 10 years at The New York Times.
Alexandra Zayas, Assistant Managing Editor
Alexandra Zayas is an assistant managing editor at ProPublica, running a team of reporters and coordinating across the newsroom to enhance its special projects. She has edited award-winning work here, and as an investigative reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Louise Kiernan, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica Illinois
Louise Kiernan is editor-in-chief of ProPublica Illinois, the first regional operation of ProPublica. She comes to ProPublica from Northwestern University, where she was an associate professor of journalism, focusing on investigative and narrative reporting, and the leader of the program’s social justice and investigative journalism specialization. Prior to that, she worked for the Chicago Tribune for 18 years, serving as the newspaper’s enterprise editor, writing coach, urban affairs team editor and a special projects team editor and reporter, among other roles.
Manny García, Senior Editor, ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Inititative
Manny García is Senior Editor for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative, where he oversees a team of investigative journalists and collaborates on projects with the Tribune across Texas. García is known for building teams, championing diversity and talent development.
News Staff
- Senior Editors: Henri Cauvin, Manny García, Daniel Golden, Meg Marco, T. Christian Miller, Michael Mishak, Joe Sexton, Marilyn Thompson, Zahira Torres and Nick Varchaver
- Editor at Large: Tim Golden
- Design Director: David Sleight
- Art Director: Lisa Larson-Walker
- Talent Development Director: Talia Buford
- Editorial Experience Designers: Allen Tan and Rob Weychert
- Creative Story Technologist: Agnes Chang
- Story Producer: Jillian Kumagai
- Social Media and Platforms Editor: Kengo Tsutsumi
- Assistant Editor, Audience: Karim Doumar
- Newsletter Editor: Ruth Baron
- Engagement Editor and Reporter: Ariana Tobin
- Engagement Reporters: Adriana Gallardo and Maryam Jameel
- Senior Reporters: David Armstrong, James Bandler, Ken Armstrong, Patricia Callahan, Pamela Colloff, Renee Dudley, Jesse Eisinger, Peter Elkind, Jack Gillum, Abrahm Lustgarten, Alec MacGillis, Sebastian Rotella, A.C. Thompson and Ginger Thompson
- Reporters: Marshall Allen, Isaac Arnsdorf, Talia Buford, Caroline Chen, Lydia DePillis, Justin Elliott, Robert Faturechi, Ryan Gabrielson, Michael Grabell, Jessica Huseman, Akilah Johnson, Paul Kiel, Ava Kofman, Dara Lind, Nina Martin, J. David McSwane, Jake Pearson, Lizzie Presser, Megan Rose, Topher Sanders, Joaquin Sapien, Lisa Song, Mike Spies, Yeganeh Torbati, Heather Vogell, Annie Waldman, Ken Ward Jr., Elizabeth Weil and Bernice Yeung
- Partner Manager: Rachel Glickhouse
- Research Editor: Katie Zavadski
- Senior Research Reporter: Doris Burke
- Research Reporter: Kirsten Berg
- Executive Producer, Video: Almudena Toral
- Visual Investigations Producer: Lucas Waldron
- Video Journalists: Katie Campbell and Nadia Sussman
- Video Editor: Joseph Singer
- Data Editor: Ryann Grochowski Jones
- News Applications Editor: Ken Schwencke
- News Applications Developers: Lena V. Groeger, Al Shaw, Moiz Syed, Mike Tigas and Derek Willis
- Senior Data Reporters: Jeff Ernsthausen and Hannah Fresques
- Data Reporters: Sophie Chou and Ellis Simani
- Computational Journalist: Jeff Kao
- Data Reporter, Local Reporting Network: Agnel Philip
- Data Reporter, Local Reporting Network: Lylla Younes
- Engagement Reporters, Local Reporting Network: Maya Miller and Beena Raghavendran
- Audience Fellows, Local Reporting Network: Maya Eliahou and Abby Ivory-Ganja
- Story Production Fellows, Local Reporting Network: Jan Byun and Shoshana Gordon
- Scripps Howard Journalism Fellow: Zipporah Osei and Mollie Simon
- Senior Reporting Fellows: Joshua Kaplan and Sean Campbell
- Lorana Sullivan Senior Reporting Fellows: Kyle Edwards and Will Young
Texas Tribune Initiative Staff
- Reporters: Kiah Collier, Vianna Davila, Lomi Kriel, Jeremy Schwartz and Perla Trevizo
- Data Reporter: Ren Larson
- Research Reporter: Lexi Churchill
- Engagement Reporter: Sally Beauvais
- Senior Development Officer: Jennifer Ajluni
Illinois News Staff
- Editor-in-Chief: Louise Kiernan
- Deputy Editor: Steve Mills
- Reporters: Tony Briscoe, Jodi S. Cohen, Mick Dumke, Duaa Eldeib and Melissa Sanchez
- Data Reporter: Haru Coryne
- News Applications Developer: Ash Ngu
- Engagement Reporter: Logan Jaffe
- Director of Development: Jane Nicholson
- Assistant Director of Communications: Alissandra Calderon
- Office Assistant: Liz Barr
Administrative Staff
- Director of Development: Heather Troup
- Director of Marketing: Cynthia Gordy Giwa
- Public Relations Director: Alexis Stephens
- Director of Information Technology and Systems: Jim Norris
- Manager, Information Technology and Operations: Nicholas Lanese
- Human Resources Manager: Liz Sharp
- Product Developer: Frank Sharpe
- Director of Online Fundraising and Outreach: Jill Shepherd
- Development Manager: Tina Le
- Manager of Financial Operations: Cindy De La Cruz
- Finance Associate: Melissa Rosado
- Office Manager: Joanna Kelly
