The Breakthrough
Summary: The ProPublica Podcast is a weekly program featuring interviews with reporters and information about the latest investigations published by ProPublica.org. Produced by the nonprofit newsroom, the podcast will take listeners behind the scenes of their reporting to show how they obtained the story, what inspired the report and what’s the potential impact that could result from the investigation.
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Podcasts:
Podcast: The ProPublicans behind Surgeon Scorecard talk about melding data and traditional reporting.
Podcast: Jerry Capeci, Gang Land columnist and longtime reporter for the New York Daily News, on how he began exclusively covering the mob.
Podcast: Jason Grotto and Heather Gillers of the Chicago Tribune talk about a painful reckoning for the city after decades of papering over budget shortfalls with big debts.
Podcast: Kyle Massey on what catches readers’ attention, and why the “paper of record” never would have written, “Headless Body in Topless Bar.”
Podcast: A two-time Pulitzer winner talks about a new world of pay-to-play, where lobbying has spread to unregulated surrogates.
Podcast: John Bohannon joins Charles Ornstein to talk bad science, credulous reporters, and the ethics of his brand of journalism.
Podcast: ProPublica's Charles Ornstein talks with WTHR's Bob Segall about southeast Indiana's recent HIV outbreak, the largest in state history, and how much it will cost taxpayers.
Sarah Maslin Nir of The New York Times talks about her investigation into oppressive conditions for nail salon workers.
Megan McCloskey discusses the latest development in her investigation into the Pentagon’s failing efforts to bring home America’s missing soldiers from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
Julia Angwin talks about her latest report on an advertising company using Verizon’s undeletable tracking number to respawn cookies that monitor mobile customers’ web browsing habits.
Julia Angwin takes listeners inside her in-depth investigation into flashbangs, modified hand grenades that have injured or killed at least 50 Americans in police raids since 2000.
Charles Ornstein discusses his investigation of “NY Med,” the reality medical show that broadcast a patient’s death without permission.
Paul Kiel explores how some nonprofit hospitals are using the courts to collect medical debt, particularly from low-income patients.
Nikole Hannah-Jones talks about her story on rampant school segregation in St. Louis, where decades of public and private housing discrimination have left black children like Michael Brown with inferior schools.
Charles Ornstein and Steve Engelberg discuss the latest data on Medicare’s Part D drug program.
