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Latest Articles and Investigations from ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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United States
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Latest Articles and Investigations from ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Language:
English
Email:
podcast@propublica.org
Episodes
The Breakthrough: How Reporters Really Use Unnamed Sources
2/24/2017
The most influential reporting on the Trump administration has relied on unnamed sources. Here’s the story behind them.
Duration:00:16:26
The Breakthrough: Uncovering the FBI’s Secret Rules
2/17/2017
Watchlists, informants and social media investigations. What exactly are FBI agents allowed to do?
Duration:00:20:26
The Breakthrough: Reporters Examine Murder Where Cops Struggle to Curb It
2/10/2017
How a team of New York Times reporters chronicled every homicide in a Bronx precinct and what they learned about policing.
Duration:00:20:00
The Breakthrough: The $2 Drug Test
1/6/2017
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.
Duration:00:26:15
Introducing Our New Podcast: The Breakthrough
1/6/2017
We’re relaunching our podcast with a new format and new name, starting with three very special episodes.
Duration:00:02:02
How We Found a Pro-Trump Group Blew Past Campaign Finance Laws
12/16/2016
We talked with ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi about America Comes First, which appears to have violated legal deadlines and caps on contributions.
Duration:00:14:13
What You Need to Know About Authoritarianism
12/12/2016
Podcast: We spoke with Amanda Taub, who delved deep into the research on what prompts people to support authoritarian leaders.
Duration:00:20:27
How Journalists Need to Go Beyond Fact Checking Trump
12/5/2016
Podcast: We spoke with political science professor Brendan Nyhan about President-Elect Trump's lies and how reporters should handle them.
Duration:00:18:21
How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable
11/23/2016
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.
Duration:00:29:11
The Presidential Polls Weren’t As Wrong as the Interpreters
11/21/2016
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.
Duration:00:18:36
After Electionland: How it Worked, What We Found and What’s Next
11/16/2016
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 newsrooms in the country on Election Day.
Duration:00:30:32
Polling, Explained
10/31/2016
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.
Duration:00:14:35
Should Media Employees Give to Campaigns?
10/24/2016
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.
Duration:00:23:15
How the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic Is Morphing — and Growing
10/3/2016
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.
Duration:00:21:52
Inside an International Court of Money and Mystery
9/6/2016
Podcast: BuzzFeed’s Chris Hamby tells us how he dug into the murky world of global dispute resolution court.
Duration:00:20:55
Doctors in Danger: How the Assad Regime is Targeting Syrian Physicians
7/25/2016
Podcast: Ben Taub of the New Yorker describes the shadow network of doctors that has emerged out of the Syrian conflict.
Duration:00:23:39
Rough Passage: Reporters Find Abuse, Neglect and Death Aboard Private Prison Vans
7/18/2016
Podcast: Eli Hager and Alysia Santo of the Marshall Project discuss their many months investigating the prison van industry.
Duration:00:27:10
How New Jersey Has Embraced ‘State-Sanctioned Loan-Sharking’ to Students
7/11/2016
Podcast: ProPublica’s Annie Waldman talks about what makes New Jersey’s student loans so onerous.
Duration:00:23:29
From Captive to Captor: A Journalist’s Journey from Prisoner to Prison Guard
7/5/2016
Podcast: Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer goes undercover as a prison guard in Louisiana and finds a dark truth within himself.
Duration:00:35:05