List of ProPublica Journalists and Reporters

1. Ken Ward Jr.

Designation Propublica Distinguished Fellow Author Bio Ken Ward Jr. is a Distinguished Fellow in ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. Previously, he was the longtime environmental and investigative reporter at The Charleston Gazette and Gazette-Mail. Ward worked as part of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in 2018 on a series about West Virginia’s natural gas industry and in 2019 and 2020 on an investigation of the business empire of the state’s governor, Jim Justice. A West Virginia native, Ward is also co-founder of Mountain State Spotlight, a statewide nonprofit civic news organization. In 2018, he received a MacArt...hur Fellowship – the so-called “genius grant” – for “revealing the human and environmental toll of natural resource extraction in West Virginia and spurring greater accountability among private stakeholders.” Ward is also three-time winner of the Scripps Howard Foundation’s Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. In 2000, he received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for reporting on the environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal coal mining. In 2006, while funded by an Alicia Patterson Fellowship, he was awarded an Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal for his work investigating coal mining deaths.more
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2. Stephen Engelberg

Designation Managing Editor Author Bio Stephen Engelberg was the founding managing editor of ProPublica from 2008–2012, and became editor-in-chief on January 1, 2013. He came to ProPublica from The Oregonian in Portland, where he had been a managing editor since 2002.
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3. Charles Ornstein

Designation Managing Editor Author Bio Charles Ornstein is managing editor, local, overseeing ProPublica’s local initiatives. These include offices in the Midwest, South, Southwest, a joint initiative with the Texas Tribune and the Local Reporting Network, which works with local news organizations to produce accountability journalism on issues of importance to their communities. From 2008 to 2017, he was a senior reporter covering health care and the pharmaceutical industry. He then worked as a senior editor and deputy managing editor. Prior to joining ProPublica, he was a member of the metro investigative projects team at t...he Los Angeles Times. In 2004, he and Tracy Weber were lead authors on a series on Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, a troubled hospital in South Los Angeles. The articles won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for public service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service. In 2009, he and Weber worked on a series of stories that detailed serious failures in oversight by the California Board of Registered Nursing and nursing boards around the country. The work was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Projects edited or co-edited by Ornstein have won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, the Scripps Howard Impact Award, the IRE Award, the Online Journalism Award and other major journalism honors. He previously worked at the Dallas Morning News, where he covered health care on the business desk and worked in the Washington bureau. Ornstein is a past president of the Association of Health Care Journalists and an adjunct journalism professor at Columbia University. Ornstein is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.more
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4. Stev Suo

Designation Senior Editor Author Bio Steve Suo serves as Northwest editor for ProPublica and is based in Clackamas County, Oregon. Suo joined ProPublica from USA Today, where he was data editor. His team there helped to analyze the polarization of congressional tweets, expose the scope and causes of failed adoptions and reveal a nursing home chain’s lagging track record of keeping people alive during COVID-19’s peak. Prior to USA Today, Suo was a reporter and editor for The Oregonian/Oregon Live, where he led the investigations and data team. The team’s work prompted National Guard leaders to close and clean o...ut lead-contaminated armories and helped spur a state constitutional amendment that allowed limits on campaign contributions. As a reporter, he was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist in national news for a series on methamphetamine that helped change national and international drug policy.more
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5. Jesse Eisinger

Designation Senior Editor Author Bio Jesse Eisinger is a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica. He is the author of the “The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives.”
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6. Ziva Branstetter

Designation Senior Editor Author Bio Ziva Branstetter has been a senior editor at ProPublica since March 2022, supervising a team of national investigative reporters. She previously served as corporate accountability editor at The Washington Post. She led projects there including the Post’s award-winning Pandora Papers collaboration with ICIJ and journalists around the world.
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7. Al Shaw

Designation Senior News Application Developer Author Bio Al Shaw is a Senior News Application Developer at ProPublica. He uses data and interactive graphics to cover environmental issues, natural disasters and politics. A year before Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston, Shaw was part of a team that produced “Hell and High Water,” which warned of the region's vulnerability to coastal storms. The project won a Peabody Award in 2017. Shaw's project, “Losing Ground,” about the century-long erosion of Louisiana's coast won a Gold Medal from the Society for News Design. His interactive maps surrounding FEMA's response to Hurricane... Sandy were honored with the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award. Before joining ProPublica, Shaw was a designer/developer at the political news website Talking Points Memo.more
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8. Tim Golden

Designation Reporter Author Bio Tim Golden is a reporter at ProPublica, concentrating on national security, foreign policy and criminal justice. He was previously the founding managing editor for news and investigations at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the U.S. criminal justice system. He was also a senior writer at The New York Times, where he spent two decades as an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent and national correspondent. Golden began his journalism career at United Press International, covering foreign affairs in the Washington bureau. In 1985, he went to El Salvador as t...he Central America bureau chief for the Miami Herald, covering war and political upheaval across the region. He was later based in Brazil as the paper’s South America correspondent and spent four years in Mexico as bureau chief for the Times. As a filmmaker, Golden wrote and co-directed the feature documentary film “Elián,” which had its premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast around the world by CNN and the BBC. He has been a story consultant on feature films including Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning “Traffic” and “Ché.” He also worked on Alex Gibney’s “Taxi to the Dark Side,” which won the Academy Award for feature documentary and was based on Golden’s reporting about U.S. military abuses in Afghanistan. Golden’s many journalism honors include two shared Pulitzer Prizes: the 1998 international reporting award for coverage of drug corruption in Mexico and the 1987 national reporting prize for stories on the Iran-Contra scandal. He has been a fellow of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the New America Foundation.more
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9. Daniel Golden

Designation Senior Editor & Reporter Author Bio Journalist and author Daniel Golden is a Boston-based senior editor and reporter at ProPublica. Golden has been instrumental in three Pulitzer Prizes, two as an editor and one as a reporter. He co-edited a ProPublica series on Latin American asylum-seekers caught between the U.S. government and the MS-13 gang, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Before joining ProPublica in October 2016, he worked as managing editor for education and enterprise at Bloomberg News. There he edited a series about tax inversions — companies moving headquarters overseas to avoid taxes &mdas...h; that earned Bloomberg’s only Pulitzer Prize in 2015. Golden won a Pulitzer as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in 2004 for a series of articles on preferences for children and donors in college admissions. He expanded that series into a critically acclaimed national bestseller, “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.” An updated edition was published in October 2019 with new reporting on the Operation Varsity Blues scandal. Golden’s book, “Spy Schools: How The CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities,” was published by Henry Holt in October 2017. Spy novelist John Le Carre praised it as “timely and shocking,” and former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called it a “must-read.” He is the co-author, with ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley, of "The Ransomware Hunting Team," which was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in fall 2022. Amazon made it an "editor's pick" for best nonfiction of the year, and the New York Times described it as "brilliant." Golden spent 17 years as a staff reporter at the Boston Globe, including a stint on its Spotlight team, and served as senior editor for investigations at Conde Nast Portfolio. Among other honors, he has won three George Polk awards, three National Headliner awards, the Sigma Delta Chi award, the Gerald Loeb Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the New York Press Club Gold Keyboard award and two Education Writers Association Grand Prizes. He was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service for a series exposing recruiting abuses by for-profit colleges. A Harvard College graduate, he was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 1998-99.more
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10. Andrea Bernstein

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11. Kristen Doerer

Designation Reporter Author Bio Kristen Doerer is a reporter in Washington, D.C. Her writing has appeared in PBS NewsHour, The Guardian and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among others. Follow her on Twitter at @k2doe.
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12. Jeff Kao

Designation Computational Journalist Author Bio Jeff Kao is a computational journalist at ProPublica who uses data science to cover technology. His collaboration with The New York Times on Chinese government censorship of the coronavirus outbreak was a part of the newspaper’s winning entry for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for public service. His project on videos posted to Parler during the Capitol riots was cited throughout President Donald Trump’s second impeachment hearing and won the 2021 IRE Award for breaking news. His work has also won the Loeb Award for international reporting (2022), the SOPA Award for journalistic innovatio...n (2022) and the SABEW Award for technology reporting (2019). Kao previously worked as a machine learning engineer at Atrium LTS, where he developed natural language processing systems for legal services. He holds a law degree from Columbia Law School, where he was the editor in chief of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Waterloo.more
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13. Anna Clark

Designation Reporter Author Bio Anna Clark is a reporter covering issues in the Midwest. She came to ProPublica after many years working as an independent journalist with a particular interest in how cities are made and unmade. She is the author of “The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy,” which won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. Clark’s reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, the New Repub...lic, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Detroit Free Press and Belt Magazine, among other publications. Clark also edited “A Detroit Anthology,” a Michigan Notable Book, ” and she is a nonfiction faculty member in Alma College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. She lives in Detroit.more
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14. Derrick Clifton

Author Bio Derrick Clifton is a former communications manager for ProPublica Illinois. Previously, they worked in media relations and public affairs with teams at a major energy company, on campaigns and at an international PR agency. An MSJ graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Clifton is a frequent writer, speaker and commentator on various cultural, wellness and social justice issues. Their work has appeared or been featured at NBC News, The Guardian, Vox, The Root, Quartz, MSNBC, Out, HLN, The Triibe, various NPR affiliates and more. Clifton also served as a staf...f writer covering identities for Mic.com. Clifton’s work as the “Identity and Culture” columnist at the Chicago Reader won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, NLGJA - The Association of LGBT Journalists, the Chicago Headline Club (Society of Professional Journalists) and various other media organizations. Clifton is also an avid volunteer and has served on boards for scholarship organizations, education nonprofits and causes serving LGBTQ people.more
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15. Nadia Sussman

Designation Video Journalist Author Bio Nadia Sussman is a video journalist at ProPublica, creating short- and long-form visual stories for ProPublica investigations. From 2013 to 2017, Nadia was based in Brazil, where she shot and edited videos for outlets including The New York Times, BBC and The Wall Street journal. Nadia has worked throughout Latin America and the United States, covering stories including killings by police in Rio’s favelas and Brazil’s Zika crisis. Her work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International, the Northern Short Course and the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Prior to working in jour...nalism, Nadia was an investigator for death row habeas corpus appeals in California.more
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16. Marilyn W. Thompson

Designation Reporter Author Bio Marilyn Thompson is a reporter at ProPublica.
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17. Doug Bock Clark

Designation Reporter Author Bio Doug Bock Clark is a reporter in ProPublica’s South unit. He investigates threats to democracy and abuses of power throughout the region. Clark was previously a correspondent at GQ magazine, where his investigations contributed to getting two women off death row and revealed how the Trump administration had distorted classified intelligence to push the nation toward a confrontation with North Korea. His reporting for the New York Times Magazine helped free two unjustly imprisoned men from a foreign jail. Clark has previously written about the South for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Mo...ther Jones and Wired. He won the Arthur L. Carter Reporting Award and has been a finalist for the Livingston Award, the Mirror Award and the Excellence in Features Award from the Society of Features Journalists. His first book, “The Last Whalers,” was one of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2019 and a finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize and the Lowell Thomas Travel Book Award. He has produced two feature documentaries inspired by his articles: “Assassins,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and played in theaters worldwide, and “The Last Cruise” for HBO.more
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18. Jake Pearson

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jake Pearson is a reporter in New York where he has conducted metro, campaign finance and national political investigations for ProPublica since 2018. He previously worked for the Associated Press, NBC News and the New York Daily News. His work has prompted criminal prosecutions and oversight hearings. He has been recognized with various journalism awards.
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19. Corey G. Johnson

Designation Reporter Author Bio Corey G. Johnson is a reporter with ProPublica.
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20. Jennifer Smith Richards

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jennifer Smith Richards is a reporter for ProPublica. She began her journalism career writing obituaries in West Virginia, then covering small-town southern Ohio. She wrote about schools and education at newspapers in Huntington, West Virginia; Utica, New York; Savannah, Georgia, and Columbus, Ohio. She most recently worked for the Chicago Tribune, where her work exposed student ticketing at school, abusive educators, government misspending, sexual abuse in schools, lapses in police accountability and the mistreatment of students with disabilities. Her stories have prompted new state laws, the... prosecution of school officials and the creation of child-protection units in school districts and state education departments. Jennifer is a graduate of Ohio University and lives in Chicago.more
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21. Megan Rose

Designation Reporter Author Bio Megan Rose, formerly Megan McCloskey, has investigated criminal justice and the military for ProPublica since 2013. She won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with two colleagues for a series examining how Navy and Marine Corps leadership failed to heed warnings and implement reforms leading up to several fatal accidents. Rose has also examined the billions of dollars wasted by the U.S. government in Afghanistan and how the Pentagon was failing in its efforts to find and identify missing service members from past wars. In a series investigating prosecutorial misconduct, she expose...d how rather than exonerating wrongfully convicted defendants, prosecutors instead pushed a little known plea deal that left innocent men with a record. Rose’s work at ProPublica and elsewhere has resulted in several falsely convicted men clearing their records, Congressional inquiries, and high-level leadership changes. Previously Rose was a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, reporting from the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, a disaster zone in Haiti, and U.S. military bases in Asia. She also worked for the Associated Press both domestically and abroad. She graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in journalism and political science, and has received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award, a White House Correspondents’ Association award and the Deborah Howell Award for Writing Excellence, and was twice a finalist for the Livingston Award. Rose lives in Washington with her husband and son.more
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22. Kirsten Berg

Designation Research Reporter Author Bio Kirsten Berg is a research reporter with ProPublica. Previously, she served as an associate editor with Future Tense, a partnership between Slate magazine, New America, and Arizona State University, and as the deputy director of the New America Fellows Program. Kirsten has also worked for the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Frontline, and was once an intern at ProPublica.
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23. Sebastian Rotella

Designation Reporter Author Bio Sebastian Rotella is a senior reporter at ProPublica. An award-winning foreign correspondent and investigative reporter, he worked for almost 23 years for the Los Angeles Times before joining ProPublica in 2010. He covers international security issues including terrorism, intelligence, organized crime, human rights and migration. His reporting has taken him across the Americas and Europe, and to the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. In 2020, Sebastian was part of the ProPublica team whose coverage of the pandemic and the CDC was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public servi...ce. The Association of Health Care Journalists gave that coverage the Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism in the investigative category. In 2016, he was co-writer and correspondent for Terror in Europe, a Frontline documentary that was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors broadcast/video award. In 2013, his Finding Oscar investigation with This American Life won a Peabody Award, a Dart Center Award, and two awards from the Overseas Press Club. In 2012, he was recognized with Italy’s Urbino Press Award for excellence in American journalism. His A Perfect Terrorist investigation of the Mumbai attacks (with Frontline) was nominated for an Emmy, and the online version of the story got an Overseas Press Club Award in 2011. In 2006, he was named a Pulitzer finalist for international reporting for his L.A. Times coverage of terrorism and Muslim communities in Europe, which won the German Marshall Fund’s senior award for excellence in European reporting. He was part of a team whose coverage of al-Qaida received an Overseas Press Club award and finalist honors for Harvard University’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2002. In 2001, he won Columbia University’s Maria Moors Cabot Prize for his career coverage of Latin America. His work in Latin America also won honors from the Overseas Press Club, Inter-American Press Association and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. At the L.A. Times, Sebastian served as a correspondent at the Mexican border, in South America and in Europe. His border reporting inspired two songs on Bruce Springsteen’s album The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995). Sebastian is the author of three novels: Rip Crew (2018), The Convert’s Song (2014), and Triple Crossing (2011).He is also the author of Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border (1998). He speaks Spanish, French and Italian. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, studied at the University of Barcelona, and was born in Chicago.more
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24. Joshua Kaplan

Designation Reporter Author Bio Joshua Kaplan is a reporter at ProPublica. Since joining the newsroom in January 2020, he has reported on the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and misconduct by undercover police officers in New York City, among other subjects. Kaplan’s work with colleagues at ProPublica has received national honors including a George Polk Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award and the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. He holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago.
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25. Vernal Coleman

Designation Reporter Author Bio Vernal Coleman is a reporter for ProPublica’s Midwest newsroom. He came to ProPublica from the Boston Globe, where he had been a member of the newsroom’s strike investigations team, specializing in data analysis for quick turnaround investigations. Before joining the Globe, Coleman was a watchdog reporter with the Seattle Times’ Project Homeless initiative, where he wrote stories about the intersection of housing, mental health and local efforts to combat homelessness. Prior to joining the Seattle Times, in 2014, he covered policing and public safety in Newark, New Jersey, fo...r the Star-Ledger and NJ.com. Coleman began his career as a fellow with Northwestern University’s Academy of Alternative Journalism, where he produced multiple news articles for various Chicago-based publications, including the Chicago Reader.more
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26. Mike Hayes

Designation Author Author Bio Journalist. Go here to buy my book on the NYPD: https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Files-Officers-Escaped-Accountability/dp/1954220448
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27. Abrahm Lustgarten

Designation Reporter Author Bio Abrahm Lustgarten writes about climate change and works frequently with The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and PBS Frontline, among others. His forthcoming book, “On The Move,” explores how climate change is uprooting American lives and where people will go.
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28. Ian MacDougall

Designation Contributing Reporter Author Bio A lawyer as well as a journalist, he has written about crime, criminal justice and legal affairs for Harper’s, The Atlantic, Slate, The Guardian and n+1. Prior to attending law school, he was an Associated Press reporter, with stints in the Oslo, Norway, and Providence, Rhode Island, bureaus.
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29. Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Designation Reporter Author Bio Anna Maria Barry-Jester is a reporter with ProPublica covering global health. She joined ProPublica in 2022 from KFF Health News, where she covered public health. Barry-Jester has reported extensively on public health and environmental issues, including the Flint water crisis, gun deaths in the United States, catastrophic flooding in Pakistan and the health impacts of pollutants in India. She spent several years documenting and reporting the first international news stories on an epidemic of chronic kidney disease affecting agricultural workers in Central America and Southeast Asia for the Ce...nter for Public Integrity and other outlets. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she reported on the troubled public health response as well as the impact on state and local health departments for “This American Life,” the Los Angeles Times and other news organizations. Barry-Jester’s work has been honored with a Gerald Loeb Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, an AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award, the Investigative Data Journalism prize from the Online News Association and a communications award from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, among others.more
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30. Jessica Miller

Designation Author Author Bio Investigative reporter for @sltrib | Pulitzer Prize winner | Listen to me on our podcast "Sent Away"
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31. Uriel J. García

Author Bio Immigration reporter @TexasTribune. Contact me at ****@texastribune.org
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32. Alejandro Serrano

Designation Author Author Bio reporter @TexasTribune. profile pic taken by Godofredo Vásquez.
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33. Melissa Sanchez

Designation Reporter Author Bio Melissa Sanchez is a reporter at ProPublica. She joined ProPublica in 2017 and is focused on immigrants and low-wage workers. Her work here examining Chicago’s punitive ticketing and debt collection system helped prompt major reforms, including changes to state law and an end to driver’s license suspensions over ticket debt. She previously worked for The Chicago Reporter, Catalyst Chicago, el Nuevo Herald in Miami and the Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic, and has received numerous local and national awards for her reporting. She lives in Chicago with her husband, their two young chil...dren and two cats. She is the daughter of immigrants from Mexico and El Salvador, and she speaks Spanish.more
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34. Jeremy Schwartz

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jeremy Schwartz is an investigative reporter for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative. He’s been a watchdog reporter in Texas for nearly a decade for the Austin American-Statesman and USA Today Network. His work has resulted in the overhaul of Texas’ inspection process for farmworker housing, sparked Congressional investigations of a failed Department of Veterans Affairs research program and uncovered misleading border arrest and drug seizure statistics maintained by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Schwartz has won the National Association of Hispanic Journa...lists’ Latino Issues award for his 2017 investigation into the political underrepresentation of Latinos in Texas cities and counties, and the Headliners Foundation of Texas Reporter of the Year award, among other honors. He’s previously reported on Latin America from Mexico City.more
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35. Lomi Kriel

Designation Author Author Bio Journalist @propublica @texastribune | Pre: immigration/border @houstonchron CentAm @reuters etc | el pasado es arcilla | ???????? grown | ****@propublica.org
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36. Pamela Colloff

Designation Reporter Author Bio Pamela Colloff is a reporter at ProPublica and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Prior to joining ProPublica and the Times in 2017, she was an executive editor and staff writer at Texas Monthly. Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker and has been anthologized in “Best American Magazine Writing,” “Best American Crime Reporting,” “Best American Non-Required Reading,” and “Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists.” “False Witness,” her ProPublica-New York Times investigation into jailhou...se informants, received a National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2020. The story was also recognized with the Hillman Prize, the IRE Award, the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism, and the MOLLY National Journalism Prize. Colloff is currently expanding her article into a book for Random House. In 2019, she received the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award in human interest storytelling for “Blood Will Tell,” a two-part investigation jointly published by ProPublica and The New York Times. At Texas Monthly, Colloff earned a National Magazine Award in Feature Writing for her 2012 story, “The Innocent Man.” She is a seven-time National Magazine Award finalist. Her 2010 story, “Innocence Lost” — about a wrongly convicted death row inmate named Anthony Graves — was credited with helping Graves win his freedom after 18 years behind bars. One month after its publication, all charges against Graves were dropped and he was released from jail, where he had been awaiting retrial. In 2014, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University awarded her the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Her oral history “96 Minutes,” about the 1966 University of Texas shootings, served as the basis for the 2016 documentary, “TOWER.” The film was short-listed for an Academy Award in Best Documentary Film and received a News & Documentary Emmy. Colloff holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Brown University. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and their two children.more
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37. Logan Jaffe

Designation Reporter Author Bio Logan Jaffe is a reporter for newsletters at ProPublica. She came to ProPublica by way of The New York Times and Chicago Public Media (WBEZ). She was the multimedia producer for WBEZ's Curious City, a journalism project fueled by audience questions about Chicago, and previously an embedded mediamaker with The New York Times' Race/Related newsletter in collaboration with the documentary showcase POV, in which she reported and produced an audience-driven project confronting the pervasiveness of racism through everyday objects. She was also a producer with The NYTimes' Daily 360 project. In Chica...go, she was a recipient of Chicago Filmmakers' Digital Media Production Fund for "Battle Flag," an interactive documentary which questions the meaning of the Confederate battle flag in America.more
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38. David Armstrong

Designation Reporter Author Bio David Armstrong is a reporter at ProPublica, specializing in health care investigations. He joined ProPublica in March, 2018. Before that, he was a senior enterprise reporter for STAT, where he wrote about abuses in the addiction treatment industry, the rise of fentanyl and the recruiting of college football players with histories of concussions. Armstrong previously worked in the investigative unit at Bloomberg News, where he reported on the overuse of cardiac stents, problematic back surgeries and excesses in the pain industry.
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39. Patrick Rucker

Designation Reporter Author Bio Author and reporter covering finance for @capitol_forum. @ProPublica contributor. Ex Chicago Tribune. Financial Times. Reuters.
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40. Duaa Eldeib

Designation Reporter Author Bio Duaa Eldeib is a reporter at ProPublica whose work has examined the systemic failures that led to a stillbirth crisis in the U.S., the fatal consequences of delaying care during the pandemic and the plight of hundreds of children trapped in psychiatric hospitals. She was part of a team of reporters who were among the first in the country to reveal the disproportionate and devastating effects of COVID-19 on Black Americans and collaborated with colleagues to cover the Trump administration’s Zero Tolerance policy for immigrants. Eldeib’s reporting has sparked legislative hearings and... government reform and has led to the release of young men incarcerated as juveniles then later sent to adult prison for “minor” offenses. Her series on stillbirths was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. Before joining ProPublica, Eldeib was a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, where she investigated police misuse of polygraphs in cases leading to wrongful convictions. Her stories with two colleagues uncovering children being assaulted and sexually abused at taxpayer-funded residential treatment centers was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting. Eldeib’s reporting also led to the exoneration of a mother who was wrongly convicted of murdering her son. She has won numerous other national and local awards and was a 2014 finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Before joining the Tribune, Eldeib reported for the Daily Southtown, where she wrote stories exposing theft and corruption at a regional education office, which led to the arrest of the superintendent and spurred lawmakers to abolish the office. Eldeib graduated from the University of Missouri with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and psychology and received a master’s degree in public policy from Northwestern University. She is based in Chicagomore
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41. Lizzie Presser

Designation Reporter Author Bio Lizzie Presser covers health, inequality and how policy is experienced at ProPublica. She was previously a contributing writer for The California Sunday Magazine, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, This American Life and others. Her story “The Dispossessed,” published in partnership with The New Yorker, won the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting and the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism in 2020. She is a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award and the National Magazine Award.
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42. Seth Freed Wessler

Designation Reporter Author Bio Seth Freed Wessler is a reporter with ProPublica’s South unit who focuses on immigration, the justice system and inequality Wessler was previously an independent reporter and a fellow at Type Investigations. He has reported for the New York Times Magazine, Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting, Mother Jones, the Smithsonian Magazine, the Nation, This American Life and others. Wessler’s 2020 story on life inside a federal immigration facility in Georgia during the COVID-19 pandemic won a Sidney Award. His first documentary film, an account of the same detention center, wil...l be released with Field of Vision later in 2021. Wessler’s investigation into neglect in the U.S. Marshals Service’s detention system was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for reporting in 2020 and won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Magazine Investigative Reporting and the Deadline Club Award for Investigative Audio Reporting. He shared a Peabody Award in 2019 for an investigation into public spending on Confederate memorials and heritage groups across the South. The project also won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and an Online Journalism Award. His work has been honored by investigative awards from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the John Bartlow Martin Award, the John Jay/H. F. Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting and a Hillman Prize. Wessler is a founder of the Gumshoe Group, an initiative to support freelance journalists and is a lecturer at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. He was previously an enterprise reporter for NBCnews.com, a reporter for Colorlines.com and a Soros Justice Media Fellow.more
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43. Marjorie Childress

Designation Reporter Author Bio Marjorie Childress is managing editor at New Mexico In Depth. Steve Myers is a senior editor at ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network.
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44. Vianna Davila

Designation Author Author Bio Investigative reporter, @ProPublica/@TexasTribune. Alum: @SeattleTimes Project Homeless & SA @ExpressNews. Tejana. ****@propublica.org
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45. Lulu Ramadan

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio investigative reporter @seattletimes & @propublica | co-curator: @LMattersNews | أتكلم عربى | she/her
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46. Mike Reicher

Designation Reporter Author Bio Investigative reporter @seattletimes. Formerly @tennessean and @ocregister. Reach me at mreicher at https://t.co/mCSGwlgVMe. Signal: 503-741-9152
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47. Nicole Carr

Designation Reporter Author Bio Nicole Carr focuses on criminal justice and racial inequity for ProPublica's South unit. She previously served as an investigative reporter for WSB-TV in Atlanta. In addition to covering Georgia’s historic 2020 elections and various aspects of the pandemic, Carr’s work has been rooted in law enforcement and government accountability. In a joint 2020 investigation with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Carr examined physical abuse and sexual misconduct incidents in National Guard youth camps.
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48. Ava Kofman

Designation Reporter Author Bio Ava Kofman is a reporter on ProPublica’s national desk. She joined the newsroom in January 2019, after working as a contributing writer at The Intercept, where she covered technology. In 2021, she reported with colleagues on toxic air pollution across the United States. The team’s examination of the country’s “Sacrifice Zones,” which helped spur several reforms, was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize and a National Magazine award. Kofman’s 2022 investigation of the hospice industry prompted numerous policy changes. It received the 2023 Hillman Prize for Ma...gazine Journalism and was a finalist for the Livingston Award. Her work has also been honored by the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, and the National Press Club. It has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine and The Atlantic, among other places.more
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49. Topher Sanders

Designation Reporter Author Bio Topher Sanders is a reporter at ProPublica covering railroad safety. Previously he covered race, inequality and the justice system. In 2019, Sanders was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Public Service and won the Peabody and George Polk awards for their coverage of President Trump’s family separation policy. In 2018, he and reporter Ben Conarck received the Paul Tobenkin award for race coverage and the Al Nakkula award for police reporting for their multi-part investigation “Walking While Black,” which explored how jaywalking citations are disproportionat...ely given to black pedestrians. His reporting has won a number of other national awards including a NABJ Award, an Online Journalism Award, the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim award for excellence in criminal justice reporting and he is a two-time winner of the Paul Tobenkin award for coverage of racial intolerance and discrimination. In 2016 Sanders co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit working to increase the number of investigative reporters and editors of color. He is a graduate of Tuskegee University and started his journalism career at The Montgomery Advertiser in Montgomery, Alabama.more
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50. Maryam Jameel

Designation Engagement Reporter Author Bio Maryam Jameel is an engagement reporter working on community-sourced investigations out of ProPublica’s Washington, D.C. newsroom. Her reporting focuses on how federal policy affects workplace rights. Previously, she was a reporter with the Center for Public Integrity, where she investigated racial inequality in employment, dangerous workplace exposures and wage theft by federal contractors.
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51. Molly Parker

Designation Reporter Author Bio @capitolnewsIL reporter; 2021-2023 @propublica LRN fellow; Southern Illinois roots; Saluki; mom to twin toddler boys; SIU prof
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52. Ryan Gabrielson

Designation Reporter Author Bio Ryan Gabrielson is a reporter for ProPublica covering health care. Previously, his reporting on the justice system exposed major flaws in forensic science evidence long relied on in the criminal courts, the U.S. Supreme Court’s factual errors and deadly conditions inside local jails.
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53. Caroline Chen

Designation Reporter Author Bio Caroline Chen covers health care for ProPublica. She has written about public health, hospitals, drugmakers and clinical trials, highlighting disparities in patient access, broken funding models and abuses of power. Her 2020 coverage of the coronavirus pandemic included investigations into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s early failures to contain the outbreak, vaccine inequities and distortion of COVID-19 data. Her work was part of ProPublica’s coverage recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. Her 2019 stories on a heart transplant progr...am in New Jersey that prioritized metrics over patient care won the Livingston Award for local reporting. Her story on racial disparities in cancer clinical trials with Riley Wong in 2018 won the June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism in online/multimedia reporting. Her writing has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and NPR. Previously, she worked at Bloomberg News, where her coverage included the unraveling of blood test maker Theranos and the 2014 Ebola outbreak. She received her master’s degree from the Toni Stabile Program for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, where she was awarded a Pulitzer traveling fellowship.more
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54. Irena Hwang

Designation Data Reporter Author Bio Irena Hwang is a data reporter at ProPublica. She previously worked at NPR, The Associated Press and The Dallas Morning News. She has a master’s degree in journalism and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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55. Eli Hager

Designation Reporter Author Bio Eli Hager is a reporter covering issues affecting children and teens in the Southwest. He joined ProPublica from The Marshall Project, where as a staff writer for six years he focused primarily on juvenile justice, family court, foster care, schools and other issues affecting youth. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, two-time Livingston Award finalist and three-time finalist for the Education Writers Association’s national award, his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Guardian, New York Magazine, USA Today, NPR and elsewhere. Hager’s investiga...tion of juvenile justice agencies that bill parents for their children’s incarceration led to the practice being banned in Philadelphia the day after the story published and later statewide in California. His investigation of foster care agencies that pocket Social Security money intended for disabled children led to the practice being banned in both New York City and Los Angeles. After he published a yearlong investigation of deaths, crashes, escapes and abuses on for-profit prisoner transport vans, the Justice Department launched a probe of the industry.more
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56. Jodi S. Cohen

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jodi S. Cohen is a reporter for ProPublica, where she focuses on stories about schools and juvenile justice. Her stories have uncovered the misuse of seclusion and restraint in Illinois public schools, exposed systemic problems in Michigan’s juvenile justice system after a girl was incarcerated during the pandemic for not doing her online school work, and revealed misconduct in a psychiatric research study at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a college financial aid scam. She is based in Chicago.
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57. Mary Hudetz

Designation Reporter Author Bio Mary Hudetz is a reporter focusing on tribal issues throughout the Southwest. She joined ProPublica from the Seattle Times’ investigative team, where she helped lead coverage of COVID-19’s spread inside the Life Care Center of Kirkland nursing home, site of the nation’s first known coronavirus outbreak. That work was selected as a finalist for the Scripps Howard Foundation’s breaking news award. Previously, she was a law enforcement reporter for the Associated Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and an editor for AP’s West Regional Desk in Phoenix. An enrolled mem...ber of the Crow Tribe in Montana, Hudetz is a past president of the Native American Journalists Association. She has extensive experience investigating and writing about issues facing Native Americans and tribes, particularly in the Southwest. In 2019, her reporting with two AP colleagues on cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women won several awards, including a Dori J. Maynard Award for Justice in Journalism from the News Leaders Association. Hudetz’s work at ProPublica will focus on investigating tribal issues throughout the region. She will be based in Albuquerque.more
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58. Kiah Collier

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Kiah Collier was an investigative reporter for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative. She previously worked at the Tribune as a reporter and associate editor since 2015, covering energy and environment through the lens of state government and politics. She was a reporter on “Hell and High Water
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59. Andy Kroll

Designation Reporter Author Bio Andy Kroll is a reporter for ProPublica covering voting, elections and other democracy issues. He was previously the Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone. His reporting there about a series of cyberattacks on congressional campaigns helped lead to the indictment of a California political operative. Before that, he was a senior reporter at Mother Jones, where his work on self-dealing during the Trump presidency sparked multiple congressional investigations. Earlier in his career, his investigation of a powerful law firm that profited from pushing borrowers out of their homes helped shut d...own the foreclosure mill and spurred Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to cut ties with similar foreclosure law firms across the country. In September, Kroll will publish his first book, “A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy,” a true-crime investigation about U.S. politics, viral conspiracy theories and one family’s fight for truth.more
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60. Ellis Simani

Designation Data Reporter Author Bio Data reporter @propublica
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61. Asia Fields

Designation Engagement Reporter Author Bio Engagement reporter @propublica. Previously @seattletimes. Reach me at ****@propublica.org or via Signal: 206-419-7338
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62. Justin Elliott

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63. Alex Mierjeski

Designation Research Reporter Author Bio Research, ProPublica
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64. Lexi Churchill

Designation Research Reporter Author Bio Lexi Churchill is a research reporter for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative. Before joining ProPublica, Lexi interned at CNBC, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Columbia Daily Tribune, and KCUR 89.3, Kansas City’s NPR affiliate. Her reporting on the University of Missouri’s Title IX appeals process won the GateHouse Public Service Award for 2018. Lexi graduated from Mizzou in 2019 with a degree in investigative convergence journalism.
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65. Lisa Song

Designation Reporter Author Bio Lisa Song reports on the environment, energy and climate change. She joined ProPublica in 2017 after six years at InsideClimate News, where she covered climate science and environmental health. She was part of the reporting team that revealed Exxon’s shift from conducting global warming research to supporting climate denial, a series that was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for public service. From 2013-2014 she reported extensively on air pollution from Texas’ oil and gas boom as part of a collaboration between several newsrooms. Lisa is a co-author of “The Dilbit Di...saster,” which won a Pulitzer for national reporting. She has degrees in earth science and science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.more
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66. Anastasia Lennon

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67. Jennifer Berry Hawes

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jennifer Berry Hawes is a reporter with ProPublica’s South hub who focuses on criminal justice, religion, race and the welfare of women and children. Prior to ProPublica, Hawes worked at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, most recently as a watchdog and public service reporter. She was part of the team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for public service for the series “Till Death Do Us Part,” which examined South Carolina’s failure to protect women from often-fatal domestic abuse. Hawes also was a 2019 Pulitzer finalist for feature writing, along with ...fellow reporter Deanna Pan, for their series “An Undying Mystery” about the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina. Hawes has written on topics ranging from persistent failures in public education to prison violence to racial injustice. Hawes reported extensively on the Emanuel AME Church mass shooting in 2015, in which nine people were killed during Bible study at one of the country’s oldest Black churches. Her 2019 book stemming from that reporting, “Grace Will Lead Us Home,” won the Christopher Award and Audie Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Hawes is based in South Carolina.more
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68. Peter Elkind

Designation Reporter Author Bio Peter Elkind is a reporter covering government and business. Prior to joining ProPublica in 2017, Elkind worked at Fortune for 20 years. He wrote such stories as “The Trouble with Steve Jobs,” about how the CEO of Apple concealed his bout with pancreatic cancer; “Hack of the Century,” about how a cyber-invasion brought Sony Pictures to its knees and terrified corporate America; “Citizenship for Sale,” about a massive scandal in America’s controversial EB-5 visa-for-sale program; “Inside Elon Musk's $1.4 Billion Score,” about how the Tesla ...CEO dazzled his way to epic state incentives for a giant battery plant in the Nevada desert; “Business Gets Schooled,” revealing corporate America’s troubled involvement in the war over Common Coremore
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69. Adriana Gallardo

Designation Engagement Reporter Author Bio Adriana joined ProPublica in 2016 as an engagement reporter. Since then, she’s collaborated across the newsroom on investigative series covering women’s health, immigration, and sexual violence. Her community-sourced reporting has contributed to several awards including a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist series for explanatory reporting (Lost Mothers) and the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for public service (Lawless). In 2021, "Unheard," an engagement reporting project from Alaska’s “Lawless” investigative series, was awarded The Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage... of Trauma, The Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism, The Ethics in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and was the inaugural winner in the community journalism category with The American Society of Magazine Editors (Ellies). Prior to ProPublica, Adriana oversaw a national reporting series at 15 public media stations. She's traveled the country with the StoryCorps mobile booth collecting hundreds of stories archived at the U.S. Library of Congress. In her hometown Chicago, she spent over a decade working as a journalist, media educator and radio producer. She is based in Brooklyn and is an adjunct professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY).more
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70. Byard Duncan

Designation Engagement Reporter Author Bio Byard Duncan is an engagement reporter based in Oakland, California. Before joining ProPublica, he spent seven years at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. There, he and a team of other reporters were named Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2019 for their work investigating Amazon’s high rate of worker injuries. He is the recipient of two Gerald Loeb Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a National Headliner Award and an Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award.
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71. Cassandra Jaramillo

Designation Reporter Author Bio Cassandra Jaramillo is a reporter at ProPublica. She joined the newsroom in 2022, covering reproductive health and voting rights. Her investigation on True the Vote, a nonprofit that has peddled misinformation about election fraud, was a finalist for the Livingston Award, which honors exceptional reporting by journalists under 35. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and is based in Texas.
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72. A.c. Thompson

Designation Reporter Author Bio A.C. Thompson is a staff reporter with ProPublica. His stories, which often examine the criminal justice system, have helped lead to the exoneration of two innocent San Francisco men sentenced to life in prison and the prosecution of seven New Orleans police officers. In addition to working as a print and web journalist, Thompson has reported extensively for television, serving as a producer and correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline. His life was fictionalized on the HBO show “Treme.”
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73. Max Blau

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Max Blau covers health care, public health and the environment for ProPublica's South unit. Blau was previously an independent journalist working with Georgia Health News as part of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, a collaboration that has investigated Georgia Power’s toxic waste disposal practices, racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths and a controversial loophole to fund nursing homes. His work has appeared in a variety of national publications, including the Atlantic, the New York Times, Politico magazine, Time the Washington Post, and Stat and Stateline, where he covered ...health care as a Southern correspondent. He also worked as a staff writer for CNN, Atlanta magazine and the Atlanta alt-weekly Creative Loafing. His story about a death-row doctor who built an empire from treating Georgia inmates won the SPJ Green Eyeshade Award for investigative reporting in 2020.more
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74. Jessica Lussenhop

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jessica Lussenhop is a reporter for ProPublica’s Midwest team, covering Minnesota. Before coming to ProPublica, Lussenhop was a senior staff writer for BBC North America and a fellow at the radio program “This American Life.” She worked at a string of alternative newsweeklies, including City Pages in Minneapolis and the Riverfront Times in St. Louis. Her previous coverage has won an Asian American Journalists Association Excellence Award and a National Native Media Award. She lives in Minneapolis.
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75. Kartikay Mehrotra

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Kartikay Mehrotra was a reporter with ProPublica.
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76. Robin Urevich

Designation Reporter Author Bio Staff reporter for @capitalandmain. writing on California's housing crisis, digital divide, and economic inequality Posts don't = endorsements
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77. Gabriel Sandoval

Designation Research Reporter Author Bio Gabriel Sandoval was a research reporter with ProPublica.
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78. Joel Jacobs

Designation Data Reporter Author Bio Joel Jacobs is a data reporter at ProPublica. Previously, he was a data reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s investigations team, where he worked on a variety of accountability projects including examining hospital price transparency and public housing conditions. He also covered the impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes for The Washington Post. He completed his master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University and previously worked as a software engineer.
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79. Renee Dudley

Designation Reporter Author Bio Renee Dudley is a tech reporter at ProPublica. Before joining ProPublica in 2018, she was a member of the enterprise team at Reuters, where she reported extensively on issues with college-entrance exams. She uncovered a U.S. higher education admissions system corrupted by systematic cheating on standardized tests. Following public outcry over the use of leaked SAT exams and other issues Reuters uncovered, the test's maker vowed to fix the problems. The series was named a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist in National Reporting. Before joining Reuters in 2015, she worked as a reporter in New York fo...r Bloomberg News and in South Carolina for The (Charleston) Post and Courier and The (Hilton Head) Island Packet. At Bloomberg, she uncovered questionable accounting and unauthorized sales practices at Walmart Inc. In Charleston, her reporting led to the indictment and resignation of South Carolina’s most powerful politician. She received the Society of Professional Journalists’ Pulliam Award in 2010 for her work upholding First Amendment rights while reporting for The Island Packet. There, her reporting led to a change in state law that opened public records that previously had been closed.more
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80. Debbie Cenziper

Designation Reporter Author Bio Debbie Cenziper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and nonfiction author who writes for ProPublica’s national desk. She spent more than a decade at The Washington Post. Over 30 years, Cenziper’s stories have changed laws, prompted congressional and FBI investigations, and helped secure more funding for affordable housing, mental health care and public schools. She has won dozens of awards in American print journalism, including the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting about corrupt affordable housing developers in Miami. She was a Pulitzer finalist in 2006 for ...a series about breakdowns in the nation’s hurricane-warning system. Cenziper was one of the lead reporters at The Washington Post on the award-winning Pandora Papers, a 2021 investigation about the secret movement of wealth around the world. In 2022, while at ProPublica, she co-authored “Shadow Diplomats,” an investigation about troubled volunteer diplomats that has spurred reforms in nine countries. She is the author of “Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America,” and “Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality,” named one of the most notable books of the year by The Washington Post. Cenziper is a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.more
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81. Jeremy Kohler

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jeremy Kohler is a St. Louis-based reporter covering issues in Missouri and the Midwest. He came to ProPublica in January 2021 from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he worked for more than 20 years. Kohler previously worked as a reporter for the Gloucester County Times, Trentonian and Courier-Post newspapers in New Jersey. He has also served as an adjunct journalism instructor at Washington University since 2003.
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82. Neil Bedi

Designation Reporter Author Bio Neil Bedi reported on the federal government for ProPublica in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he worked on stories about patient safety, worker safety, criminal justice, government inaction and more. In 2021, he won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting with Kathleen McGrory for their investigation into a sheriff's predictive policing initiative that targeted families and profiled schoolchildren. The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into the sheriff's use of student data and more than 30 national an...d state organizations formed a coalition to oppose the initiative. Bedi and McGrory's 2018 reporting on an alarming death rate at a Johns Hopkins pediatric heart surgery center won the George Polk Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. In response to the stories, the CEO and the chief heart surgeon resigned, and the hospital paid nearly $43 million to families. Bedi has also been honored as a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, and a winner of the Scripps Howard Award, the IRE Award, the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism and the National Headliner Award for Journalistic Innovation. Before becoming a journalist, Bedi was a software developer. He studied computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Engineering.more
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83. Kathleen Mcgrory

Designation Reporter Author Bio Kathleen McGrory was a reporter on ProPublica’s national staff. She and colleague Neil Bedi won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for an investigation that found a Florida sheriff’s office had harassed residents and profiled schoolchildren. The series prompted two federal reviews of the agency and the formation of a community coalition. Before that, McGrory and Bedi were finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for their articles about patient fatalities at a Johns Hopkins children’s hospital. That body of work led to the resignation of th...e hospital’s CEO and other top executives, as well as more than $40 million in settlements for affected families. McGrory began her career at the Miami Herald and later became an investigative reporter and editor at the Tampa Bay Times. Her work has also been honored with a Polk Award, an IRE award, a Scripps Howard award and the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism. She holds degrees from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and she is an adjunct instructor at the University of Florida. She and her husband are the proud parents of a toddler and a rescue beagle.more
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84. Mark Olalde

Designation Reporter Author Bio Mark Olalde is a reporter covering the environment in the Southwest. Before joining ProPublica, he wrote for The Desert Sun, The Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity. His investigations, which have taken him to numerous countries, have also been published in the Los Angeles Times, High Country News, USA Today and international outlets. Olalde's coverage of hidden cleanup liabilities in California's oilfields earned him the 2020 Stokes Award. His work on South Africa's abandoned mines prompted a parliamentary investigation and saw him recognized in 2017 as the country's top prin...t reporter covering the environment.more
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85. Jessica Priest

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86. Craig Silverman

Designation Reporter Author Bio Craig Silverman is a national reporter for ProPublica covering voting, platforms, disinformation, and online manipulation. Silverman previously served as the media editor of BuzzFeed News, where he pioneered coverage of digital disinformation. He received a George Polk Award in 2021 for a series of articles that revealed how Facebook exposes the public to disinformation, fraud and violence.
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87. Paige Pfleger

Designation Author Author Bio Criminal justice reporter @WPLN • Investigating guns in TN with @ProPublica's Local Reporting Network
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88. Heather Vogell

Designation Reporter Author Bio Heather Vogell is a reporter at ProPublica. She is currently investigating the rental housing market. Previously, she wrote about President Donald Trump’s business entanglements and collaborated with reporters at WNYC on the podcast “Trump, Inc.” Her 2019 stories on discrepancies between what the Trump Organization told New York City property tax officials and what it reported on loan documents won an award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. She has also exposed abuse at group homes for the developmentally disabled and high schools that push out lo...w-achievers to goose their graduation rates. Previously, she was a reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where her work on test cheating in the public school system resulted in the indictments of the superintendent and 34 others. A series she co-authored, “Cheating Our Children,” examining suspicious test scores in public schools across the nation, was a 2013 finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. She has also received a Sigma Delta Chi Award for non-deadline reporting, the Hillman Prize and multiple Education Writers Association awards for her investigative work. Before the Journal-Constitution, she worked at The Charlotte Observer, Chicago Tribune and The Day, in New London, Connecticut.more
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89. Sharon Lerner

Author Bio Reporter covering health & the environment @ProPublica. Formerly @TheIntercept. Tips always welcome : ) DM for Signal. ****@propublica.org
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90. Suzy Khimm

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91. Graham Lee Brewer

Author Bio Tsalagi Kanohetlvsgi. @AP reporter covering Indigenous communities and tribal nations. ****@ap.org
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92. Mick Dumke

Designation Reporter Author Bio Mick Dumke was a reporter for ProPublica. His work focused on politics and government, including investigations of local and federal gun policies, secret police databases and corruption at Chicago City Hall. Mick came to ProPublica after two years on the Watchdogs team at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he reported on civil liberties, the war on drugs and the dismantling of public housing. Before that, he spent almost a decade as a politics writer and editor for the Chicago Reader. He has also worked as a reporter and editor at the Chicago Reporter, taught social studies at an alternative high sc...hool, and studied religion at Northwestern University and McCormick Theological Seminary.more
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93. Tony Cook

Designation Author Author Bio Investigative reporter @IndyStar. "The country I come from is called the Midwest." Cincy native. Alum: Purdue MFA, Las Vegas Sun, Toledo Blade.
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94. Kyle Hopkins

Author Bio Alaska journalist for @adndotcom and @propublica. email ****@adn.com. Dad said you always have to fight a bully.
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95. Lucas Waldron

Designation Graphics Editor Author Bio Lucas Waldron is a graphics editor. Previously, he was a visual investigations producer on ProPublica’s video team.
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96. Sarah Blustain

Designation Assistant Managing Editor Author Bio Sarah Blustain is an Assistant Managing Editor with ProPublica. In this role, she helps oversee ProPublica’s local journalism initiatives, including its Local Reporting Network, its joint initiative with The Texas Tribune, the addition of offices in the South and the Southwest and the expansion of its presence in the Midwest. She came to ProPublica from Type Investigations (formerly the Investigative Fund), where for seven years she spearheaded longform investigative projects for the nonprofit newsroom. At Type Investigations, Blustain oversaw award-winning projects that resulted in con...gressional hearings and resignations, legislative changes and canceled public contracts. Central themes of her editorial work have included corporate accountability, environmental degradation, conflict zone reporting, reproductive rights and women’s issues more broadly. As deputy and then executive editor, she also helped establish newsroom protocols; negotiated complex print, radio and video partnerships; and mentored younger colleagues. Blustain previously served as senior editor for Newsweek/Daily Beast and The New Republic, deputy editor of The American Prospect and a reporter and editor for Lilith magazine. Her reporting and writing has also appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, Democracy Journal and Salon.more
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97. Eric Umansky

Designation Deputy Managing Editor Author Bio Eric Umansky is an editor-at-large at ProPublica, where he has overseen two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. Most recently, a series he edited on NYPD abuse of “nuisance abatement” laws won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service. Umansky oversaw much of ProPublica's Trump administration coverage, including the “Trump, Inc.” podcast with WNYC, which won a DuPont Award. More recently, Umansky has reported with his colleagues on police accountability in New York City. The work has won the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice ...Reporting and the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. It has also been credited with helping spur reforms. Umansky joined ProPublica when it started in 2008. Before that, he wrote a column for Slate. Umansky has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and many others. He is also a co-founder of Document Cloud.more
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98. Ruth Baron

Designation Newsletter Editor Author Bio Ruth Baron is the newsletter editor at ProPublica.
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99. Sophia Kovatch

Designation Audience Editor, Seo Author Bio Sophia Kovatch was an audience editor, SEO with ProPublica.
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100. Lauren Gill

Designation Author Author Bio Lauren Gill is a staff writer at Bolts. Her work on the criminal legal system has also appeared in ProPublica, The Appeal, Newsweek, The Brooklyn Paper, Intercept, and elsewhere.
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