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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
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
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
Why Liberal New York City’s Schools Are Among the Nation’s Most Segregated
6/27/2016
Podcast: Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times Magazine talks about her piece on sending her young daughter to a segregated school.
Duration:00:33:44
How a Shootout on a Guatemalan Highway Opened Window to Corruption
6/20/2016
Podcast: Our own Sebastian Rotella tells us about the challenges of reporting on corruption in violent and chaotic Guatemala.
Duration:00:22:06
Why Are Hate Crime Statistics So Poorly Tracked?
6/13/2016
Podcast: Associated Press reporter Christina Cassidy tells us how she investigated the underreporting of hate crime statistics and what that means for victims.
Duration:00:21:15
Horror House on the Prairie: Hard Labor and Harsh Treatment for Group of Disabled Men in Iowa
6/6/2016
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’
Duration:00:34:12
How the NY/NJ Port Authority Misspent Millions in Federal Money Meant to Cut Air Pollution
5/23/2016
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 Sapien inside his Village Voice investigation.
Duration:00:32:12
Uncovering the Stark Disparities Behind School Money
5/16/2016
Podcast: NPR reporter Cory Turner details his investigation into school spending inequities.
Duration:00:26:23
How Milwaukee Landlords Figured Out How to Collect Rent and Not Pay Taxes
5/9/2016
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.
Duration:00:23:48
How Residents Get Ensnared by NYPD Nuisance Abatement Cases
5/2/2016
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
Duration:00:25:35
Uncovering the Fiction of ‘Farm to Table’ Food
4/25/2016
Podcast: How a Tampa Bay Times food critic revealed that many 'locally sourced' restaurants were anything but.
Duration:00:13:51
Captive Labor and the Reporters Who Exposed an International Scandal
4/18/2016
Podcast: Behind the scenes with the Associated Press reporters who found slavery on the high seas.
Duration:00:29:18
Meet the Panama Papers Editor Who Handled 376 Reporters in 80 Countries
4/11/2016
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.
Duration:00:26:31
Keeping Tabs on the Hacking Hero Who Became a Criminal Kingpin
4/4/2016
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.
Duration:00:26:07