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ProPublica

May 04, 2023

ProPublica (/proʊˈpʌblɪkə/[2]), legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit organization based in New York City. In 2010, it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece[3] written by one of its journalists[4][5] and published in The New York Times Magazine[6] as well as on ProPublica.org.[7] ProPublica states that its investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time investigative reporters, and the resulting stories are distributed to news partners for publication or broadcast. In some cases, reporters from both ProPublica and its partners work together on a story. ProPublica has partnered with more than 90 different news organizations, and it has won six Pulitzer Prizes.[8]

Pro Publica, Inc.
Founded2007; 16 years ago (2007)
Type501(c)(3)
14-2007220
FocusInvestigative journalism
Location
Area served
United States
Key people
Employees
> 100[1]
Websitewww.propublica.org

History

ProPublica was the brainchild of Herbert and Marion Sandler, the former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corporation, who have committed $10 million a year to the project.[9] The Sandlers hired Paul Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, to create and run the organization as editor in chief. At the time ProPublica was set up, Steiger responded to concerns about the role of the political views of the Sandlers, saying on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer:

Coming into this, when I talked to Herb and Marion Sandler, one of my concerns was precisely this question of independence and nonpartisanship ... My history has been doing "down the middle" reporting. And so when I talked to Herb and Marion I said "Are you comfortable with that?" They said, "Absolutely." I said, "Well, suppose we did an exposé of some of the left leaning organizations that you have supported or that are friendly to what you've supported in the past." They said, "No problem." And when we set up our organizational structure, the board of directors, on which I sit and which Herb is the chairman, does not know in advance what we're going to report on.[10]

ProPublica had an initial news staff of 28 reporters and editors,[11] including Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber, Jeff Gerth, and Marcus Stern. Steiger was reported to have received 850 applications[12] upon ProPublica's announcement. The organization appointed a 12-member advisory board of professional journalists.

The newsgroup shares its work under the Creative Commons no-derivative, non-commercial license.[13]

On August 5, 2015, Yelp announced a partnership with the company to help improve their healthcare statistics.[14]

Funding

While the Sandler Foundation provided ProPublica with significant financial support, it also has received funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Atlantic Philanthropies.[15] ProPublica and the Knight Foundation have various connections. For example, Paul Steiger, executive chairman of ProPublica, is a trustee of the Knight Foundation.[16] In like manner, Alberto Ibarguen, the president and CEO of the Knight Foundation is on the board of ProPublica.[17] ProPublica, along with other major news outlets, received grant funding from Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.[18]

ProPublica has attracted attention for the salaries it pays its employees.[19][20] In 2008, Paul Steiger, the editor of ProPublica, received a salary of $570,000.[21] Steiger was formerly the managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, where his total compensation (including options[21]) was double that at ProPublica.[22] Steiger's stated strategy is to use a Wall Street Journal pay model to attract journalistic talent.[23] In 2010, eight ProPublica employees made more than $160,000, including managing editor Stephen Engelberg ($343,463) and the highest-paid reporter, Dafna Linzer, formerly of the Washington Post ($205,445).[24]

Engelberg is a former New York Times editor who co-wrote the non-fiction book Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, with Times reporter Judith Miller.

Awards

In 2010, ProPublica jointly won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (it was also awarded to the Philadelphia Daily News for an unrelated story) for "The Deadly Choices at Memorial", "a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina."[25] It was written by ProPublica's Sheri Fink and published in The New York Times Magazine[6] as well as on ProPublica.org.[7] This was the first Pulitzer awarded to an online news source.[4][5] The article also won the 2010 National Magazine Award for Reporting.[26]

In 2011, ProPublica won its second Pulitzer Prize.[27] Reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their series, The Wall Street Money Machine. This was the first time a Pulitzer was awarded to a group of stories not published in print.

In 2016, ProPublica won its third Pulitzer Prize, this time for Explanatory Reporting, in collaboration with The Marshall Project for "a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims."[28]

In 2017, ProPublica and the New York Daily News were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of reports on the use of eviction rules by the New York City Police Department.[29][30][31]

In 2019, the Peabody Awards honored ProPublica with the first-ever Peabody Catalyst Award for releasing audio in 2018 that brought immediate change to a controversial government practice of family separation at the southern border.[32]

Also in 2019, ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her series that followed immigrants on Long Island whose lives were shattered by a botched crackdown on MS-13.[33]

In May 2020, ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for illuminating public safety gaps in Alaska.[34]

In that same year, ProPublica also won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of the United States Navy and the collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) with civilian vessels in separate incidents in the western Pacific. The stories were written by T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi.[35]

Notable reporting and projects

"An Unbelievable Story of Rape"

Main article: An Unbelievable Story of Rape

T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project collaborated on this piece about the process that discovered a serial rapist in Colorado and Washington state.[36] The piece won a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.[37] This piece was adapted into the 2019 Netflix series Unbelievable.[38]

IRS and conservative groups

In December 2012 and January 2013, ProPublica published and reported on confidential pending applications for groups requesting tax-exempt status. In May 2013, after widespread coverage of allegations that the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, ProPublica clarified that it obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, writing, "In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public." ProPublica reported on six of them, after deeming information within those applications newsworthy.[39]

Psychiatric Solutions

ProPublica conducted a large-scale, circumscribed investigation on Psychiatric Solutions, a company based in Tennessee that buys failing hospitals, cuts staff, and accumulates profit.[40] The report covered patient deaths at numerous Psychiatric Solutions facilities, the failing physical plant at many of their facilities, and covered the State of Florida's first closure of Manatee Palms Youth Services, which has since been shut down[41] by Florida officials once again.[42] Their report was published in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times.

Documenting Hate

In 2017, ProPublica launched the Documenting Hate project for systematic tracking of hate crimes and bias incidents.[43] The project is part of their Civil Rights beat, and allows victims or witnesses of hate crime incidents to submit stories. The project also allows journalists and newsrooms to partner with ProPublica to write stories based on the dataset they are collecting. For example, the Minneapolis Star Tribune partnered with ProPublica to write about reporting of hate crimes in Minnesota.[44]

Surgeon Scorecard

In 2015, ProPublica launched Surgeon Scorecard, an interactive database that allows users to view complication rates for eight common elective procedures. The tool allows users to find surgeons and hospitals, and see their complication rates.[45] The database was controversial, drawing criticism from doctors and prompting a critique from RAND.[46][47] However, statisticians, including Andrew Gelman, stood behind their decision to attempt to shine light on an opaque aspect of the medical field,[48] and ProPublica offered specific rebuttals to RAND's claims.[49]

Tracking evictions and rent stabilization in New York City

ProPublica has created an interactive map that allows people to search for addresses in New York City to see the effects of eviction cases.[50] The app was nominated for a Livingston Award.[51]

Taxes paid by wealthiest Americans

In June 2021, after receiving leaked, hacked, or stolen[52][53] IRS documents, ProPublica published a report which showed that tax rates for the wealthiest Americans were significantly lower than the average middle class tax rate, when considering unrealized capital gains as being equivalent to earned income.[54] ProPublica would later reveal that technology investor and political donor Peter Thiel legally earned over $5 billion in a tax-free Roth IRA account through his investments in private companies.[55] Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers that investigating the source of the release would be a top priority for the Justice Department.[56]

Cancer-causing industrial air pollution map

In 2021, ProPublica published the results of a two-year analytical project involving examining billions of rows of EPA data to create a map to chart industrial pollution at the neighborhood level - the first of its kind. In five years worth of EPA data, ProPublica identified over 1,000 toxic hotspots nationwide, estimating that 250,000 people living near these areas may have been exposed to levels of cancer risk that the EPA deems unacceptable.[57][58] ProPublica intended to represent data in a way where the public can understand the risk of breathing the air where they live. Through the map, the town of Verona, Missouri was identified to have an industrial cancer risk 27 times larger than the acceptable value. Subsequently, the EPA agreed to install three air monitors to track ethylene oxide concentration in Verona.[59] Additional "hot spots" identified on the map include the city of Longview in eastern Texas; the most high-risk area of Longview has a risk level 72 times greater than the EPA’s acceptable risk.[60] This most high-risk area is the home of Texas Eastman Chemical Plant.[60] According to ProPublica, its analysis of the plant's emissions detected ethylene oxide and 1-3 butadiene.[60] The Texas Eastman Chemical Plant says it has conducted its own tests which "have revealed no areas of concern."[60]




Board members

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    Harvard University Professor Danielle Susan Allen

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    Public academic Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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    Businessman Paul Sagan

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    Business executive James M. Stone

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    Asset manager and philanthropist Donald Sussman

See also

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External links

  • Official website
  • Tigas, Mike (January 13, 2016). "A More Secure and Anonymous ProPublica Using Tor Hidden Services". ProPublica.
  • "ProPublica Internal Revenue Service filings". ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

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propublica, legally, publica, nonprofit, organization, based, york, city, 2010, became, first, online, news, source, pulitzer, prize, piece, written, journalists, published, york, times, magazine, well, states, that, investigations, conducted, staff, full, tim. ProPublica p r oʊ ˈ p ʌ b l ɪ k e 2 legally Pro Publica Inc is a nonprofit organization based in New York City In 2010 it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize for a piece 3 written by one of its journalists 4 5 and published in The New York Times Magazine 6 as well as on ProPublica org 7 ProPublica states that its investigations are conducted by its staff of full time investigative reporters and the resulting stories are distributed to news partners for publication or broadcast In some cases reporters from both ProPublica and its partners work together on a story ProPublica has partnered with more than 90 different news organizations and it has won six Pulitzer Prizes 8 Pro Publica Inc Founded2007 16 years ago 2007 Type501 c 3 Tax ID no 14 2007220FocusInvestigative journalismLocationManhattan New York City U S Area servedUnited StatesKey peoplePaul Steiger Executive Chairman Herbert Sandler Founding Chairman Stephen Engelberg Editor in Chief Richard Tofel President Robin Fields Managing Editor Charles Ornstein Managing Editor Local Employees gt 100 1 Websitewww wbr propublica wbr org Contents 1 History 2 Funding 3 Awards 4 Notable reporting and projects 4 1 An Unbelievable Story of Rape 4 2 IRS and conservative groups 4 3 Psychiatric Solutions 4 4 Documenting Hate 4 5 Surgeon Scorecard 4 6 Tracking evictions and rent stabilization in New York City 4 7 Taxes paid by wealthiest Americans 4 8 Cancer causing industrial air pollution map 5 Board members 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory EditProPublica was the brainchild of Herbert and Marion Sandler the former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corporation who have committed 10 million a year to the project 9 The Sandlers hired Paul Steiger former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal to create and run the organization as editor in chief At the time ProPublica was set up Steiger responded to concerns about the role of the political views of the Sandlers saying on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Coming into this when I talked to Herb and Marion Sandler one of my concerns was precisely this question of independence and nonpartisanship My history has been doing down the middle reporting And so when I talked to Herb and Marion I said Are you comfortable with that They said Absolutely I said Well suppose we did an expose of some of the left leaning organizations that you have supported or that are friendly to what you ve supported in the past They said No problem And when we set up our organizational structure the board of directors on which I sit and which Herb is the chairman does not know in advance what we re going to report on 10 ProPublica had an initial news staff of 28 reporters and editors 11 including Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Ornstein Tracy Weber Jeff Gerth and Marcus Stern Steiger was reported to have received 850 applications 12 upon ProPublica s announcement The organization appointed a 12 member advisory board of professional journalists The newsgroup shares its work under the Creative Commons no derivative non commercial license 13 On August 5 2015 Yelp announced a partnership with the company to help improve their healthcare statistics 14 Funding EditWhile the Sandler Foundation provided ProPublica with significant financial support it also has received funding from the Knight Foundation MacArthur Foundation Pew Charitable Trusts Ford Foundation the Carnegie Corporation and the Atlantic Philanthropies 15 ProPublica and the Knight Foundation have various connections For example Paul Steiger executive chairman of ProPublica is a trustee of the Knight Foundation 16 In like manner Alberto Ibarguen the president and CEO of the Knight Foundation is on the board of ProPublica 17 ProPublica along with other major news outlets received grant funding from Sam Bankman Fried the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX 18 ProPublica has attracted attention for the salaries it pays its employees 19 20 In 2008 Paul Steiger the editor of ProPublica received a salary of 570 000 21 Steiger was formerly the managing editor at The Wall Street Journal where his total compensation including options 21 was double that at ProPublica 22 Steiger s stated strategy is to use a Wall Street Journal pay model to attract journalistic talent 23 In 2010 eight ProPublica employees made more than 160 000 including managing editor Stephen Engelberg 343 463 and the highest paid reporter Dafna Linzer formerly of the Washington Post 205 445 24 Engelberg is a former New York Times editor who co wrote the non fiction book Germs Biological Weapons and America s Secret War with Times reporter Judith Miller Awards EditIn 2010 ProPublica jointly won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting it was also awarded to the Philadelphia Daily News for an unrelated story for The Deadly Choices at Memorial a story that chronicles the urgent life and death decisions made by one hospital s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina 25 It was written by ProPublica s Sheri Fink and published in The New York Times Magazine 6 as well as on ProPublica org 7 This was the first Pulitzer awarded to an online news source 4 5 The article also won the 2010 National Magazine Award for Reporting 26 In 2011 ProPublica won its second Pulitzer Prize 27 Reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their series The Wall Street Money Machine This was the first time a Pulitzer was awarded to a group of stories not published in print In 2016 ProPublica won its third Pulitzer Prize this time for Explanatory Reporting in collaboration with The Marshall Project for a startling examination and expose of law enforcement s enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims 28 In 2017 ProPublica and the New York Daily News were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of reports on the use of eviction rules by the New York City Police Department 29 30 31 In 2019 the Peabody Awards honored ProPublica with the first ever Peabody Catalyst Award for releasing audio in 2018 that brought immediate change to a controversial government practice of family separation at the southern border 32 Also in 2019 ProPublica reporter Hannah Dreier was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her series that followed immigrants on Long Island whose lives were shattered by a botched crackdown on MS 13 33 In May 2020 ProPublica won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for illuminating public safety gaps in Alaska 34 In that same year ProPublica also won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of the United States Navy and the collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and USS John S McCain DDG 56 with civilian vessels in separate incidents in the western Pacific The stories were written by T Christian Miller Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi 35 Notable reporting and projects Edit An Unbelievable Story of Rape Edit Main article An Unbelievable Story of Rape T Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project collaborated on this piece about the process that discovered a serial rapist in Colorado and Washington state 36 The piece won a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 37 This piece was adapted into the 2019 Netflix series Unbelievable 38 IRS and conservative groups Edit In December 2012 and January 2013 ProPublica published and reported on confidential pending applications for groups requesting tax exempt status In May 2013 after widespread coverage of allegations that the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups ProPublica clarified that it obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request writing In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups Nine of those applications had not yet been approved meaning they were not supposed to be made public ProPublica reported on six of them after deeming information within those applications newsworthy 39 Psychiatric Solutions Edit ProPublica conducted a large scale circumscribed investigation on Psychiatric Solutions a company based in Tennessee that buys failing hospitals cuts staff and accumulates profit 40 The report covered patient deaths at numerous Psychiatric Solutions facilities the failing physical plant at many of their facilities and covered the State of Florida s first closure of Manatee Palms Youth Services which has since been shut down 41 by Florida officials once again 42 Their report was published in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times Documenting Hate Edit In 2017 ProPublica launched the Documenting Hate project for systematic tracking of hate crimes and bias incidents 43 The project is part of their Civil Rights beat and allows victims or witnesses of hate crime incidents to submit stories The project also allows journalists and newsrooms to partner with ProPublica to write stories based on the dataset they are collecting For example the Minneapolis Star Tribune partnered with ProPublica to write about reporting of hate crimes in Minnesota 44 Surgeon Scorecard Edit In 2015 ProPublica launched Surgeon Scorecard an interactive database that allows users to view complication rates for eight common elective procedures The tool allows users to find surgeons and hospitals and see their complication rates 45 The database was controversial drawing criticism from doctors and prompting a critique from RAND 46 47 However statisticians including Andrew Gelman stood behind their decision to attempt to shine light on an opaque aspect of the medical field 48 and ProPublica offered specific rebuttals to RAND s claims 49 Tracking evictions and rent stabilization in New York City Edit ProPublica has created an interactive map that allows people to search for addresses in New York City to see the effects of eviction cases 50 The app was nominated for a Livingston Award 51 Taxes paid by wealthiest Americans Edit In June 2021 after receiving leaked hacked or stolen 52 53 IRS documents ProPublica published a report which showed that tax rates for the wealthiest Americans were significantly lower than the average middle class tax rate when considering unrealized capital gains as being equivalent to earned income 54 ProPublica would later reveal that technology investor and political donor Peter Thiel legally earned over 5 billion in a tax free Roth IRA account through his investments in private companies 55 Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers that investigating the source of the release would be a top priority for the Justice Department 56 Cancer causing industrial air pollution map Edit In 2021 ProPublica published the results of a two year analytical project involving examining billions of rows of EPA data to create a map to chart industrial pollution at the neighborhood level the first of its kind In five years worth of EPA data ProPublica identified over 1 000 toxic hotspots nationwide estimating that 250 000 people living near these areas may have been exposed to levels of cancer risk that the EPA deems unacceptable 57 58 ProPublica intended to represent data in a way where the public can understand the risk of breathing the air where they live Through the map the town of Verona Missouri was identified to have an industrial cancer risk 27 times larger than the acceptable value Subsequently the EPA agreed to install three air monitors to track ethylene oxide concentration in Verona 59 Additional hot spots identified on the map include the city of Longview in eastern Texas the most high risk area of Longview has a risk level 72 times greater than the EPA s acceptable risk 60 This most high risk area is the home of Texas Eastman Chemical Plant 60 According to ProPublica its analysis of the plant s 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