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Magnetar's Rap Sheet

ProPublica | Cora Currier | Posted 05.17.2012

The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars' worth of risky deals called collateralized debt obligations, many of which failed spectacul...

Paul E. Steiger To Step Down As ProPublica's Editor

nytimes.com | AMY CHOZICK | Posted 05.14.2012

Paul E. Steiger, the former longtime managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will step down at the end of the year as the editor in chief and chie...

Painkiller Association Closes As Senate Launches Probe

ProPublica | Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber | Posted 05.09.2012

A version of this story was published in The Washington Post.As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of nar...

U.S. Lost $1 Billion To Banks In Last 10 Years Thanks To Tax Shelter

Posted 04.16.2012

By Megan Murphy and Vanessa Houlder, Financial Times and Jeff Gerth, ProPublica In November 2001, Bank of New York, a mid-tier U.S. bank, transfe...

Who Pays for Political Ads?

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.09.2012

Bill Moyers

It's simplicity itself: Give citizens access online to find out quickly and directly who's buying our elections. Hardly an unreasonable request, given how much cash the broadcasters make from their free use of the airwaves. But the broadcasting industry's response has been a simple, declarative "Not on your life!" It would cost too much money, they claim.

Why Goldman's Quitting Exec May Have A Point

ProPublica | Cora Currier | Posted 03.15.2012

An executive at Goldman Sachs left the firm today with a bang, penning a New York Times op-ed accusing the company of increasingly putting profits ahe...

Marine Fights Freddie Mac to Save His Home

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.01.2012

Peter Dreier

"I didn't do anything wrong. I'm doing this for my family and for the millions of other families in similar situations. We can't let the Wall Street banks and Freddie Mac get away with these kinds of practices."

For ProPublica, More E-Books

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 03.31.2012

ProPublica, the nonprofit news organization known for its investigative journalism, is about to expand its e-book efforts....

Why the ProPublica Remap Yarn Is Nonsense

Phil Trounstine | Posted 02.24.2012

Phil Trounstine

The pseudo investigation by Olga Pierce and Jeff Larson of New York-based ProPublica, "How Democrats Fooled California's Redistricting Commission," is misleading at best, dishonest at worst and fatally flawed in any case.

Presidential Pardons Heavily Favor Whites

Dafna Linzer and Jennifer LaFleur | Posted 12.06.2011

First of two parts. Part two here [1]. This story was co-published [2] with The Washington Post.White criminals seeking presidential pardons over the ...

Join Robert Redford in Supporting ProPublica

ProPublica | Posted 01.30.2012

ProPublica

Robert Redford is a noted civic activist, social entrepreneur and film maker. But he remains best known as an actor -- and to those in our business, investigative reporting, especially so for his role in All the President's Men.

White House Foreclosure Prevention Program Had Minimal Oversight: Report

Posted 12.04.2011

By Paul Kiel, ProPublicaWhy has the administration’s flagship foreclosure prevention program been so ineffective in helping struggling homeowners ge...

Investigative News Sites Grapple With 24/7 Demands Of Web

Chicago Reader | Posted by Jeffin90019 | Posted 10.04.2011

"This is the core struggle of my human existence right now," Andrew Donohue, editor of the nonprofit website Voice of San Diego, says of journalism's ...

Internal Documents Reveal GMAC Engaged In Mortgage Fraud

ProPublica | Paul Kiel | Posted 09.26.2011

GMAC, one of the nation's largest mortgage servicers, faced a quandary last summer. It wanted to foreclose on a New York City homeowner but lacked the...

News Coverage Vs. PR: Is Fracking a Panacea or a Ponzi Scheme?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 09.14.2011

Alison Rose Levy

How to separate fact from fiction in evaluating fracking, the new and burgeoning next phase fossil fuel proffered by the gas and oil industry?

When Powerful Men Cross Lines: Schwarzenegger and DSK

ProPublica | Posted 07.18.2011

ProPublica

The week's news about the sexual conduct of politically powerful men gives me a queasy feeling of déjà vu. Eight years ago I was dragged into an investigation of allegations that Schwarzenegger had sexually harassed women.

ProPublica Editor's Note on Nuclear Plant Fire Risks

ProPublica | Posted 07.11.2011

ProPublica

By Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica Today's publication of our story on the threat posed by fire to nuclear power plants offers readers a rare opportuni...

Medical Information

Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

Jay Gordon, MD

So . . . the anticipated larger reach has roused me from lassitude to mention that there really are excellent resources for medical information on ...

"Med Schools Flunk at Keeping Faculty Off Pharma Speaking Circuit"

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Craig Newmark

Hey, the folks at ProPublica do true public service media, funded philanthropically and according to a strict code of ethics. The code is a really big...

Med Schools Flunk At Keeping Faculty Off Pharma Speaking Circuit

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

As medical schools wrestle with how to keep drug companies from corrupting their faculties, Stanford University is often lauded for its tough stance. ...

CHART: How Banks Bought Their Own Mortgage Securities During The Boom

Posted 05.25.2011

If you're in the market for a detailed, if byzantine, explanation of how banks ended up repackaging and buying their own own securities during the hou...

"Dollars for Docs" Public Service Media From ProPublica

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Craig Newmark

Hey, the folks at ProPublica do true public service media, funded philanthropically and according to a strict code of ethics. The code is a really big...

ProPublica documents big safety culture problems at BP

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig Newmark

The folks at ProPublica do trustworthy journalism based on a really strong ethical practice. They just published a new story: Furious Growth and Cost ...

The Documentary BP Wants You to Disregard

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

ProPublica

In a speech today, BP CEO Robert Dudley warned London's business leaders that an upcoming report and documentary from ProPublica and PBS FRONTLINE wou...

ProPublica: Doctors Paid by Drug Companies to Promote Their Drugs

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Craig Newmark

Pro Publica just launched a big report about fees paid by pharmaceutical companies to doctors to promote their drugs. The story explains how drug companies pay hundreds of millions of dollars resulting in nearly seven billion dollars in fines so far.