Jul 26 ProPublica posts NYPD records, bypassing judge’s blockade By Associated Press Days after a federal judge paused the public release of New York City police disciplinary records, a news website has published a database containing complaint information for thousands of officers. Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch 5:34 What being sick and symptomless means with the coronavirus By PBS NewsHour When it comes to COVID-19, there has been a great deal of discussion about whether or not people are asymptomatic and what that could really mean when it comes to contracting and spreading the virus. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with ProPublica… Continue watching
Dec 09 Health researchers disclose $188 million in conflicts of interest, NIH data suggests By David Armstrong, Annie Waldman, Propublica The database of disclosures reported to the National Institutes of Health, which has not been made public before, details the financial relationships of researchers at universities, hospitals and nonprofit organizations, Propublica reported. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch 6:45 How Illinois schools put thousands of children in seclusion By PBS NewsHour Hundreds of Illinois schools in 2017 and 2018 were secluding children in isolation rooms at alarming rates and often for reasons that violated the law, an investigation by the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica found. At least 20,000 children were put… Continue watching
Jul 02 Investigation launched into secret Border Patrol Facebook group By A.C. Thompson, Dara Lind, ProPublica The investigation comes after a ProPublica report exposing the secret three-year-old Facebook group, which is called “I’m 10-15” and has some 9,500 members. Continue reading
Jul 17 Why health insurers track when you buy plus-size clothes or binge-watch TV By Marshall Allen, ProPublica With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Americans. Then they feed this information into complicated computer algorithms that spit out predictions about how… Continue reading
Jun 28 How family separation strains employees at a Texas child detention center By Kavitha Surana, Robert Faturechi, ProPublica Almost universally, employees complained of being worked to the bone. A current employee in Texas said that as new children started being bused in daily, management cancelled vacations and placed staffers on 12-hour shifts. Bathroom breaks are a challenge. Employees… Continue reading
Jun 26 FDA increasingly approves drugs without conclusive proof they work By Caroline Chen, ProPublica As pharma companies underwrite three-fourths of the FDA’s budget for scientific reviews, the agency is increasingly fast-tracking expensive drugs with significant side effects and unproven health benefits. Continue reading
Jun 18 Children cry and plead for their parents at the border in audio released by ProPublica By Ginger Thompson, ProPublica ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”… Continue reading
Feb 19 Analysis: How defeatism undermines tougher gun laws By Alec MacGillis, ProPublica Congress has failed repeatedly to pass any gun-control measures after past calamities, even the 2012 massacre of 20 first-graders and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Continue reading