Magnetar's Rap Sheet
The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars' worth of risky deals called collateralized debt obligations, many of which failed spectacul...
The hedge fund Magnetar helped create billions of dollars' worth of risky deals called collateralized debt obligations, many of which failed spectacul...
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...
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...
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...
Bill Moyers | Posted 04.09.2012
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.
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...
Peter Dreier | Posted 04.01.2012
"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."
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....
Phil Trounstine | Posted 02.24.2012
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.
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 ...
ProPublica | Posted 01.30.2012
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.
Posted 12.04.2011
By Paul Kiel, ProPublicaWhy has the administration’s flagship foreclosure prevention program been so ineffective in helping struggling homeowners ge...
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 ...
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...
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 09.14.2011
How to separate fact from fiction in evaluating fracking, the new and burgeoning next phase fossil fuel proffered by the gas and oil industry?
ProPublica | Posted 07.18.2011
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 | Posted 07.11.2011
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...
Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 05.25.2011
So . . . the anticipated larger reach has roused me from lassitude to mention that there really are excellent resources for medical information on ...
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
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 | 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. ...
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...
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
The folks at ProPublica do trustworthy journalism based on a really strong ethical practice. They just published a new story: Furious Growth and Cost ...
ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
ProPublica | Cora Currier | Posted 05.17.2012