propublica.org
propublica.org
ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.Source
New York, NY
Founded 2007
CRITIC
img-trusted
96%
28 reviews
PUBLIC
img-trusted
85%
26 reviews

RECENT ARTICLES

Sort by:
gold-cheese100%
Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.

Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.

In the Spring of 2011, the brothers Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels were the talk of Carteret County, on the central coast of North Carolina. Some people said that the brothers were righteous; others thought that they had lost their minds. That March, Melvin and Licurtis stood in court and refused to leave the land that they had lived on all their lives, a portion of which had, without their knowledge or consent, been sold to developers years before. The brothers were among dozens of Reels family members who considered the land theirs, but Melvin and Licurtis had a particular stake in it....

July 22, 2019
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese100%
The Extraordinary Danger of Being Pregnant and Uninsured in Texas

The Extraordinary Danger of Being Pregnant and Uninsured in Texas

Tiffany Revilla holds her newborn daughter, Cheyenne, as her fiance, David, cares for their 1-year-old, Adillie, in Fort Worth, Texas. Because of insurance-related delays, Revilla didn’t begin prenatal care until more than halfway through her most recent pregnancy.ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.This story was co-published with Vox and the Texas Tribune.Rosa Diaz was no stranger to hunger and stress and a throbbing pain in the gut that was usually nothing serious — gastritis, she had been told, or lactose...

December 20, 2019
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese100%
Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.

Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.This story was co-reported with the German public broadcaster .Medical images and health data belonging to millions of Americans, including X-rays, MRIs and CT scans, are sitting unprotected on the internet and available to anyone with basic computer expertise.The records cover more than 5 million patients in the U.S. and millions more around the world. In some cases, a snoop could use free software programs — or just a typical web browser — to view the images and private...

September 23, 2019
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese100%
Immigrant Youth Shelters: “If You’re a Predator, It’s a Gold Mine”

Immigrant Youth Shelters: “If You’re a Predator, It’s a Gold Mine”

Trump’s Immigration Policy at the BorderJust five days after he reached the United States, the 15-year-old Honduran boy awoke in his Tucson, Arizona, immigrant shelter one morning in 2015 to find a youth care worker in his room, tickling his chest and stomach.When he asked the man, who was 46, what he was doing, the man left. But he returned two more times, rubbing the teen’s penis through his clothing and then trying to reach under his boxers. “I know what you want, I can give you anything you need,” said the worker, who was later convicted of molestation.In 2017, a 17-year-old from...

August 4, 2018
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese100%
The Nonprofit Hospital That Makes Millions, Owns a Collection Agency and Relentlessly Sues the Poor

The Nonprofit Hospital That Makes Millions, Owns a Collection Agency and Relentlessly Sues the Poor

Inside Memphis’ Debt MachineProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.This article was produced in partnership with MLK50, which is a member of the .MEMPHIS, Tennessee — In July 2007, Carrie Barrett went to the emergency room at Methodist University Hospital, complaining of shortness of breath and tightness in her chest. Her leg was swollen, she’d later recall, and her toes were turning black.Given her family history, high blood pressure and newly diagnosed congestive heart failure, doctors performed a heart...

June 27, 2019
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese100%
New Documents Raise Ethical and Billing Concerns About the NRA’s Outside Counsel

New Documents Raise Ethical and Billing Concerns About the NRA’s Outside Counsel

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.This article is published in partnership with and . Get the best of The New Yorker, in your inbox. .In 2018, accountants for the National Rifle Association began cataloging for its board of directors questionable financial arrangements that had led to millions of dollars in payments to a group of top executives and consultants. The NRA was experiencing cash flow problems, and the accountants were trying to address what they believed to be serious financial mismanagement.For...

August 1, 2019
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese100%
Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes

Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes

How the Tax Prep Industry Makes You PayProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that reports on abuses of power. to receive our best stories as soon as they’re published.Did you know that if you make less than $66,000 a year, you can prepare and ?No? That’s no accident. Companies that make tax preparation software, like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, would rather you didn’t know.Intuit and other tax software companies have to make sure that the IRS doesn’t offer its own tax preparation and filing service. In exchange, the companies have entered into an agreement with the IRS to offer a to most...

April 22, 2019
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese100%
A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children

A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children

Trump’s Immigration Policy at the BorderProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.The Border Patrol agent, a veteran with 13 years on the job, had been assigned to the agency’s detention center in McAllen, Texas, for close to a month when the team of court-appointed lawyers and doctors showed up one day at the end of June.Taking in the squalor, the stench of unwashed bodies, and the poor health and vacant eyes of the hundreds of children held there, the group members appeared stunned.Then, their outrage rolled...

July 22, 2019
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese83%
Women Who Worked with Billionaire Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt Say He Asked for Sex

Women Who Worked with Billionaire Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt Say He Asked for Sex

This story was co-published with The New York Times.ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York. to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.Sheila Katz was a young executive at Hillel International, the Jewish college outreach organization, when she was sent to visit the philanthropist Michael H. Steinhardt, a New York billionaire. He had once been a major donor, and her goal was to persuade him to increase his support. But in their first encounter, he asked her repeatedly if she wanted to have sex with him, she said.Deborah Mohile Goldberg worked...

March 22, 2019
Share
Save
Review
gold-cheese67%
Parents Gave Up Custody of Their Children to Help Them Get Financial Aid. Now, Some Are Abandoning That Idea.

Parents Gave Up Custody of Their Children to Help Them Get Financial Aid. Now, Some Are Abandoning That Idea.

Giving Up Guardianship to Get AidProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive as soon as they’re published.Amid state and federal scrutiny as well as a public backlash, more than a half-dozen suburban Chicago families who had recently gone to court to give up guardianship of their college-bound teens to qualify for financial aid they wouldn’t otherwise receive are now quietly letting their cases lapse.Though some families remain unapologetic about their use of a practice that had gone largely unnoticed until three weeks ago, they say the real...

August 27, 2019
Share
Save
Review
AUTHORS
Julia Belluz

Julia Belluz

CRITIC
img-trusted
100%
PUBLIC
img-trusted
100%
Justin Elliott

Justin Elliott

CRITIC
img-trusted
100%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Mike Spies

Mike Spies

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-trusted
100%
Wendi C. Thomas

Wendi C. Thomas

CRITIC
img-trusted
100%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Nina Martin

Nina Martin

CRITIC
img-trusted
100%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Lizzie Presser

Lizzie Presser

CRITIC
img-trusted
100%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Lucas Waldron

Lucas Waldron

CRITIC
img-trusted
100%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Profiting from the Poor

Profiting from the Poor

CRITIC
img-trusted
100%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Michael Grabell

Michael Grabell

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-trusted
100%
Ash Ngu

Ash Ngu

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-trusted
100%
Jeff Larson

Jeff Larson

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-trusted
100%
Jeff Kao

Jeff Kao

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-trusted
100%
Jack Gillum

Jack Gillum

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-trusted
100%
Ginger Thompson

Ginger Thompson

CRITIC
img-trusted
100%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Dara Lind

Dara Lind

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-trusted
90%
Sharon Otterman

Sharon Otterman

CRITIC
img-trusted
83%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Hannah Dreyfus

Hannah Dreyfus

CRITIC
img-trusted
83%
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Jodi S. Cohen

Jodi S. Cohen

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-trusted
67%
ProPublica

ProPublica

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-contested
57%
A.C. Thompson

A.C. Thompson

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-contested
57%
Jodi S. Cohen

Jodi S. Cohen

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-contested
33%
Melissa Sanchez

Melissa Sanchez

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-contested
33%
Yeganeh Torbati

Yeganeh Torbati

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-contested
33%
Abrahm Lustgarten

Abrahm Lustgarten

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-contested
N/A
Duaa Eldeib

Duaa Eldeib

CRITIC
img-contested
N/A
PUBLIC
img-contested
0%