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02.24.2017
The Breakthrough: How Reporters Really Use Unnamed Sources
The most influential reporting on the Trump administration has relied on unnamed sources. Here’s the story behind them.
02.17.2017
The Breakthrough: Uncovering the FBI’s Secret Rules
Watchlists, informants and social media investigations. What exactly are FBI agents allowed to do?
02.10.2017
The Breakthrough: Reporters Examine Murder Where Cops Struggle to Curb It
How a team of New York Times reporters chronicled every homicide in a Bronx precinct and what they learned about policing.
02.03.2017
The Breakthrough: What American Journalists Can Learn From Reporting Under Putin
Russian journalist and editor Elizaveta Osetinskaya published hard-hitting stories about the Kremlin. And it cost her her job.
01.27.2017
The Breakthrough: Uncovering Danger at the Pharmacy Counter
Reporters at the Chicago Tribune set out to learn whether pharmacies in Chicago have been warning patients who’ve been prescribed risky combinations of drugs.
01.20.2017
The Breakthrough: How a Reporter Solved a Decades-Old Murder
The 1962 murder of Mary Horton was one of the oldest cold cases in U.S. history. Then reporter Jerry Mitchell started digging into it.
01.13.2017
The Breakthrough: Meet the Reporter Who Went Undercover in the Hermit Kingdom
Author Suki Kim taught English at a boarding school for North Korea’s young elites. Here’s how she pulled it off.
01.06.2017
Introducing Our New Podcast: The Breakthrough
We’re relaunching our podcast with a new format and new name, starting with three very special episodes.
01.06.2017
The Breakthrough: The $2 Drug Test
We’re relaunching our podcast with a new format and new name, starting with three special episodes. This week: how ProPublica reporters discovered police departments nationwide use a $2 test for detecting drugs that can send innocent people to jail.
12.23.2016
Renewable Energy: An Exxon Investigation Given Second Life as Trump Taps Exec for Cabinet
Podcast: Reporting by Inside Climate News will be required reading for lawmakers considering Exxon boss Rex Tillerson’s fitness to be the country’s next Secretary of State.
12.16.2016
How We Found a Pro-Trump Group Blew Past Campaign Finance Laws
We talked with ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi about America Comes First, which appears to have violated legal deadlines and caps on contributions.
12.12.2016
What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism
Podcast: We spoke with Amanda Taub, who delved deep into the research on what prompts people to support authoritarian leaders.
12.05.2016
How Journalists Need to Go Beyond Fact Checking Trump
Podcast: We spoke with political science professor Brendan Nyhan about President-Elect Trump's lies and how reporters should handle them.
11.23.2016
How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable
In this week’s podcast, journalist Masha Gessen, who spent years reporting from Putin’s Russia, shares her thoughts on what journalists should be on watch for with the incoming U.S. administration.
11.21.2016
The Presidential Polls Weren’t As Wrong as the Interpreters
Podcast: A senior writer for the FiveThirtyEight website argues the polls picked up evidence the race would be close -- but many people just didn’t believe it.
11.16.2016
After Electionland: How it Worked, What We Found and What’s Next
Podcast: Electionland, an unprecedented effort to cover ballot access issues in real time, launched on November 8th. Today we talk with a few of the key players from ProPublica about what it was like reporting from one of the largest...
11.07.2016
Inside ‘Electionland’: Tracking Voting Problems in Real Time
Podcast: ProPublica and Univision reporters share which barriers to the ballot they’re seeing during this election.
10.31.2016
Polling, Explained
Podcast: FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten talks about how to tell good polls from bad ones, and how journalists and politicians can talk about them more effectively.
10.24.2016
Should Media Employees Give to Campaigns?
Podcast: Journalist Dave Levinthal analyzed how many journalists, reporters and editors gave to a 2016 presidential campaign. Of the small percentage that did, most gave to Hillary Clinton.
10.17.2016
Codes of Silence and Journalism’s Obligations
Podcast: A reporter in Chicago took on the police department’s alleged code of silence on misconduct. He produced a memorable story and poses some provocative questions to go with it.
10.10.2016
How Trump Allegedly Ensured His Golf-Course Employees Were ‘Pretty Enough’
Podcast: How a Los Angeles Times reporter documented complaints of sexism from Donald Trump’s golf-course employees.
10.03.2016
How the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic Is Morphing — and Growing
Podcast: Journalist David Armstrong has been tracking the rise of heroin and fentanyl and the human toll, as well as how drug companies marketed their narcotics years ago.
09.26.2016
Uncovering Texas’ Strategy to Slash Much-Needed Special Education Services
Podcast: The Houston Chronicle found that Texas quietly pushed school districts to pare the number of students receiving special education services. The move saved billions of dollars but deprived tens of thousands of students of needed help.
09.19.2016
The Hidden Toll of Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Podcast: Tens of thousands of Americans die every year because of infections they pick up in hospitals, but the medical community is barely keeping track.
09.12.2016
Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Charity Claims
Podcast: Donald Trump says he has personally donated millions to charity in recent years. Rather than debunking his claims, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold set out to prove them true – and still hasn’t been able to.
09.06.2016
Inside an International Court of Money and Mystery
Podcast: BuzzFeed’s Chris Hamby tells us how he dug into the murky world of global dispute resolution court.
08.29.2016
Hacking the American College Application Process
Podcast: How a team of reporters uncovered a culture of cheating among East Asian college prep companies
08.22.2016
Uncovering a $1 Billion Deal to Detain Unauthorized Immigrants
Podcast: Chico Harlan discusses his investigation into private immigrant detention centers.
08.15.2016
When USA Gymnastics Turned a Blind Eye to Sexual Abuse
08.08.2016
Heresy: A Reporter Investigates Evidence That Jesus Had a Wife
Podcast: How journalist Ariel Sabar tied a former pornographer to an alleged forgery scheme that rocked the highest echelons of biblical scholarship.
08.01.2016
An Overdue Examination of Detroit’s Forgotten Rape Kits
Podcast: Anna Clark speaks about her investigation for Elle Magazine into Detroit’s backlog of rape kits.
07.25.2016
Doctors in Danger: How the Assad Regime is Targeting Syrian Physicians
Podcast: Ben Taub of the New Yorker describes the shadow network of doctors that has emerged out of the Syrian conflict.
07.18.2016
Rough Passage: Reporters Find Abuse, Neglect and Death Aboard Private Prison Vans
Podcast: Eli Hager and Alysia Santo of the Marshall Project discuss their many months investigating the prison van industry.
07.11.2016
How New Jersey Has Embraced ‘State-Sanctioned Loan-Sharking’ to Students
Podcast: ProPublica’s Annie Waldman talks about what makes New Jersey’s student loans so onerous.
07.05.2016
From Captive to Captor: A Journalist’s Journey from Prisoner to Prison Guard
Podcast: Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer goes undercover as a prison guard in Louisiana and finds a dark truth within himself.
06.27.2016
Why Liberal New York City’s Schools Are Among the Nation’s Most Segregated
Podcast: Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times Magazine talks about her piece on sending her young daughter to a segregated school.
06.20.2016
How a Shootout on a Guatemalan Highway Opened Window to Corruption
Podcast: Our own Sebastian Rotella tells us about the challenges of reporting on corruption in violent and chaotic Guatemala.
06.13.2016
Why Are Hate Crime Statistics So Poorly Tracked?
Podcast: Associated Press reporter Christina Cassidy tells us how she investigated the underreporting of hate crime statistics and what that means for victims.
06.06.2016
Horror House on the Prairie: Hard Labor and Harsh Treatment for Group of Disabled Men in Iowa
Podcast: New York Times reporter Dan Barry tells us how he reconstructed a tale of exploitation and tragedy in his new book, ‘The Boys in the Bunkhouse’
05.31.2016
How We Decided to Test Racial Bias in Algorithms
Podcast: Our reporters talk about how they uncovered racial bias in software used to predict future criminals.
05.23.2016
How the NY/NJ Port Authority Misspent Millions in Federal Money Meant to Cut Air Pollution
Podcast: Six years ago, the two-state agency pledged to reduce emissions from trucks and accepted $35 million in federal dollars to do it. Today, it has little to show for the money it spent. Writer Max Rivlin-Nadler takes ProPublica’s Joaquin...
05.16.2016
Uncovering the Stark Disparities Behind School Money
Podcast: NPR reporter Cory Turner details his investigation into school spending inequities.
05.09.2016
How Milwaukee Landlords Figured Out How to Collect Rent and Not Pay Taxes
Podcast: Cary Spivak and Kevin Crowe of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel take ProPublica’s David Epstein inside their investigation of how landlords are gaming the system.
05.02.2016
How Residents Get Ensnared by NYPD Nuisance Abatement Cases
Podcast: How New York Daily News reporter Sarah Ryley discovered that the NYPD was targeting minority neighborhoods in their enforcement of a law that can boot people from their homes and businesses
04.25.2016
Uncovering the Fiction of ‘Farm to Table’ Food
Podcast: How a Tampa Bay Times food critic revealed that many 'locally sourced' restaurants were anything but.
04.18.2016
Captive Labor and the Reporters Who Exposed an International Scandal
Podcast: Behind the scenes with the Associated Press reporters who found slavery on the high seas.
04.11.2016
Meet the Panama Papers Editor Who Handled 376 Reporters in 80 Countries
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Marina Walker Guevara joined our podcast, talking about how they handled such a big leak and why some big U.S. outlets passed.
04.04.2016
Keeping Tabs on the Hacking Hero Who Became a Criminal Kingpin
Podcast: Evan Ratliff of The Atavist Magazine tells ProPublica reporter David Epstein about reporting (in real time) his weekly series on Paul Le Roux, a programmer turned cartel leader.
03.28.2016
How One Reporter Got the Police Shooting Video Everyone Wanted
Podcast: Independent journalist Brandon Smith tells ProPublica senior reporter Julia Angwin how his lawsuit made the Laquan McDonald video public.
03.21.2016
Vietnam Vets’ Fight for Benefits Gets New Crowdsourcing Boost
Podcast: ProPublica and Virginian-Pilot reporters share what they’ve learned investigating the impacts of Agent Orange and detail the digital tools they’re using in the effort.

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Articles and Investigations - ProPublica episodes:

The Breakthrough: How Reporters Really Use Unnamed Sources

The Breakthrough: Uncovering the FBI’s Secret Rules

The Breakthrough: Reporters Examine Murder Where Cops Struggle to Curb It

The Breakthrough: What American Journalists Can Learn From Reporting Under Putin

The Breakthrough: Uncovering Danger at the Pharmacy Counter

The Breakthrough: How a Reporter Solved a Decades-Old Murder

The Breakthrough: Meet the Reporter Who Went Undercover in the Hermit Kingdom

Introducing Our New Podcast: The Breakthrough

The Breakthrough: The $2 Drug Test

Renewable Energy: An Exxon Investigation Given Second Life as Trump Taps Exec for Cabinet

How We Found a Pro-Trump Group Blew Past Campaign Finance Laws

What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism

How Journalists Need to Go Beyond Fact Checking Trump

How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable

The Presidential Polls Weren’t As Wrong as the Interpreters

After Electionland: How it Worked, What We Found and What’s Next

Inside ‘Electionland’: Tracking Voting Problems in Real Time

Polling, Explained

Should Media Employees Give to Campaigns?

Codes of Silence and Journalism’s Obligations

How Trump Allegedly Ensured His Golf-Course Employees Were ‘Pretty Enough’

How the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic Is Morphing — and Growing

Uncovering Texas’ Strategy to Slash Much-Needed Special Education Services

The Hidden Toll of Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Charity Claims

Inside an International Court of Money and Mystery

Hacking the American College Application Process

Uncovering a $1 Billion Deal to Detain Unauthorized Immigrants

When USA Gymnastics Turned a Blind Eye to Sexual Abuse

Heresy: A Reporter Investigates Evidence That Jesus Had a Wife

An Overdue Examination of Detroit’s Forgotten Rape Kits

Doctors in Danger: How the Assad Regime is Targeting Syrian Physicians

Rough Passage: Reporters Find Abuse, Neglect and Death Aboard Private Prison Vans

How New Jersey Has Embraced ‘State-Sanctioned Loan-Sharking’ to Students

From Captive to Captor: A Journalist’s Journey from Prisoner to Prison Guard

Why Liberal New York City’s Schools Are Among the Nation’s Most Segregated

How a Shootout on a Guatemalan Highway Opened Window to Corruption

Why Are Hate Crime Statistics So Poorly Tracked?

Horror House on the Prairie: Hard Labor and Harsh Treatment for Group of Disabled Men in Iowa

How We Decided to Test Racial Bias in Algorithms

How the NY/NJ Port Authority Misspent Millions in Federal Money Meant to Cut Air Pollution

Uncovering the Stark Disparities Behind School Money

How Milwaukee Landlords Figured Out How to Collect Rent and Not Pay Taxes

How Residents Get Ensnared by NYPD Nuisance Abatement Cases

Uncovering the Fiction of ‘Farm to Table’ Food

Captive Labor and the Reporters Who Exposed an International Scandal

Meet the Panama Papers Editor Who Handled 376 Reporters in 80 Countries

Keeping Tabs on the Hacking Hero Who Became a Criminal Kingpin

How One Reporter Got the Police Shooting Video Everyone Wanted

Vietnam Vets’ Fight for Benefits Gets New Crowdsourcing Boost