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Founded | 2007 | ||
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Type | 501(c)(3) | ||
Focus | Investigative journalism | ||
Location | |||
Area served | United States | ||
Key people | Paul Steiger, Executive Chairman Herbert Sandler, Founding Chairman Stephen Engelberg, Editor-in-Chief Richard Tofel, President, Robin Fields, Managing Editor | ||
Employees | < 50 | ||
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ProPublica is an American nonprofit organization based in New York City. It describes itself as a nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.[2] In 2010, it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece[3] written by one of its journalists[4][5] and published in The New York Times Magazine[6] as well as on ProPublica.org.[7] ProPublica's investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time investigative reporters, and the resulting stories are distributed to news partners for publication or broadcast. In some cases, reporters from both ProPublica and its partners work together on a story. ProPublica has partnered with more than 90 different news organizations, and it has won four Pulitzer Prizes.
History
ProPublica was the brainchild of billionaires and major Democratic donors Herbert and Marion Sandler, the former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corporation, who have committed $10 million a year to the project.[8] The Sandlers hired Paul Steiger, former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, to create and run the organization as editor in chief. At the time ProPublica was set up, Steiger responded to concerns about the role of the political views of the Sandlers, saying on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer:
Coming into this, when I talked to Herb and Marion Sandler, one of my concerns was precisely this question of independence and nonpartisanship...My history has been doing "down the middle" reporting. And so when I talked to Herb and Marion I said "Are you comfortable with that?" They said, "Absolutely." I said, "Well, suppose we did an expose of some of the left leaning organizations that you have supported or that are friendly to what you've supported in the past."They said, "No problem." And when we set up our organizational structure, the board of directors, on which I sit and which Herb is the chairman, does not know in advance what we're going to report on.[9]
ProPublica had an initial news staff of 28 reporters and editors,[10] including Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber, Jeff Gerth, and Marcus Stern, but has since grown to 34 full-time working journalists. Steiger claimed that he received as many as 850 applications[11] upon ProPublica's start. The organization also appointed a 12-member journalism advisory board consisting of professional journalists.
The newsgroup shares its work under the Creative Commons no-derivative, non-commercial license.[12]
On August 5, 2015, Yelp announced a partnership with the company to help improve their healthcare statistics.[13]
Funding
While the Sandler Foundation provided ProPublica with significant financial support, it also has received funding from the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Atlantic Philanthropies.[14] ProPublica and the Knight Foundation have various connections. For example, Paul Steiger, president of ProPublica, is a trustee of the Knight Foundation.[15] In like manner, Alberto Ibarguen, the president and CEO of the Knight Foundation is on the board of ProPublica.[16] In 2010, it received a two-year contribution of $125,000 each year from George Soros' Open Society Foundations.[17]
ProPublica has attracted attention for the salaries it pays its employees.[18][19] [dead link] In 2008, Paul Steiger, the editor of ProPublica, received a salary of $570,000.[20] Steiger was formerly the managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, where his total compensation (including options[20]) was double that at ProPublica.[21] Steiger's stated strategy is to use a Wall Street Journal pay model to attract journalistic talent.[22] In 2010, eight ProPublica employees made more than $160,000, including managing editor Stephen Engelberg ($343,463) and the highest-paid reporter, Dafna Linzer, formerly of the Washington Post ($205,445).[23]
Engelberg is a former New York Times editor who co-wrote the non-fiction book Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, with Times reporter Judith Miller.
Awards
In 2010, ProPublica jointly won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting (it also was awarded to another news organization for a different story) for "The Deadly Choices At Memorial", "a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina."[24] It was written by ProPublica's Sheri Fink and published in the New York Times Magazine[6] as well as on ProPublica.org.[7] This was the first Pulitzer awarded to an online news source.[4][5] The article also won the 2010 National Magazine Award for Reporting.[25]
In 2011, ProPublica won its second Pulitzer Prize.[26] Reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their series, The Wall Street Money Machine. This was the first time a Pulitzer was awarded to a group of stories not published in print.
In 2016, ProPublica won its third Pulitzer Prize, this time for Explanatory Reporting, in collaboration with The Marshall Project for "a startling examination and exposé of law enforcement's enduring failures to investigate reports of rape properly and to comprehend the traumatic effects on its victims."[27]
In 2017, ProPublica and the New York Daily News were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of reports on the use of eviction rules by the New York City Police Department.[28][29][30]
ProPublica's reporters also have received awards for their work that include (among others): the Selden Ring, George Polk, National Magazine, Society of Professional Journalists, James Aronson, ABA Silver Gavel, Overseas Press Club, Online Journalism, Investigative Editors and Reporters, Society of News Design, Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and Dart Center awards.[citation needed]
Notable reporting and projects
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In December 2012 and January 2013, ProPublica published and reported on confidential pending applications for groups requesting tax-exempt status. In May 2013, after widespread coverage of allegations that the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, ProPublica clarified that it obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, writing, "In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public." ProPublica reported on six of them, after deeming information within those applications to be newsworthy.[31]
ProPublica conducted a large-scale, circumscribed investigation on Psychiatric Solutions, a company based in Tennessee that buys failing hospitals, cuts staff, and accumulates profit.[32] The report covered patient deaths at numerous Psychiatric Solutions facilities, the failing physical plant at many of their facilities, and covered the State of Florida's first closure of Manatee Palms Youth Services, which has since been shut down [33] by Florida officials once again.[34] Their report was published in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times.
In 2017, ProPublica launched the Documenting Hate project for systematic tracking of hate crimes and bias incidents.[35]
Board members
References
- ^ "ProPublicaSite Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
- ^ "About Us". Retrieved 2009-01-11.
- ^ "a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina." - Pulitzer.org The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting, accessed 13 April 2010
- ^ a b The Guardian, 13 April 2010, Pulitzer progress for non-profit news
- ^ a b ProPublica, Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting: Deadly Choices at Memorial
- ^ a b Sheri Fink, New York Times Magazine, 25 August 2009, THE DEADLY CHOICES AT MEMORIAL
- ^ a b ProPublica, 27 August 2009, The Deadly Choices at Memorial
- ^ Pérez-Peña, Richard (2007-10-15). "Group Plans to Provide Investigative Journalism". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
- ^ PBS Newshour, 24 June 2008, "Financing Independent Journalism"
- ^ Calderone, Michael (2008-07-10). "ProPublica will hire everyone". Politico.Com. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
- ^ Hirschman, David S. "So What Do You Do, Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica?". Mediabistro. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
- ^ "Why (and How) We Use Creative Commons for Our Stories". ProPublica. 2012-12-13. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
- ^ http://officialblog.yelp.com/2015/08/yelps-consumer-protection-initiative-propublica-partnership-brings-medical-info-to-yelp.html
- ^ Shafer, Jack (October 15, 2007). "What Do Herbert and Marion Sandler Want?". Slate. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ Board of Trustees, Knight Foundation
- ^ Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, Knight Foundation
- ^ "Why Don't We Hear About Soros' Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations?". Fox News. 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2013-10-18.
- ^ Turner, Zeke. "Shelling Out the Big Bucks at ProPublica | The New York Observer". Observer.com. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ^ Taylor, Mike (2010-08-10). "ProPublica's Top-Paid Employees All Made Six Figures in 2009". Mediabistro.com (FishbowlNY). Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ^ a b "Philanthrocrat of the day, ProPublica edition". Reuters. 30 September 2009.
- ^ "Diamonds in the Rough". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ^ Turner, Zeke (August 11, 2010). "Shelling Out the Big Bucks at ProPublica". New York Observer.
- ^ "ProPublica's Top-Paid Employees All Made Six Figures in 2009". Mediabistro.com. 2010-08-10. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
- ^ Pulitzer.org The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Investigative Reporting, accessed 13 April 2010
- ^ "National Magazine Award Winners 1966-2015". American Society of Magazine Editors. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
- ^ "A Note on ProPublica's Second Pulitzer Prize". ProPublica. 2011-04-18. Retrieved 2012-02-23.
- ^ "T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Ken Armstrong of The Marshall Project". Retrieved 2017-02-08.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes: Public Service". Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ "The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Public Service". Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ "2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners". The New York Times. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups, Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica, May 13, 2013
- ^ Jewett, Christina; Robin Fields (November 23, 2008). "Psychiatric care's perils and profits". Los Angeles Times. ProPublica. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
- ^ Wolfrum, Timothy R. (May 6, 2010). "State slams Manatee Palms psychiatric hospital". The Bradenton Herald. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
- ^ "MANATEE PALMS YOUTH SERVICES Facility Profile". FloridaHealthFinder.gov. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
- ^
Wang, Shan (January 23, 2017). "ProPublica is leading a nationwide effort to document hate crimes, with local and national partners". Nieman Lab. Archived from the original on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
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External links
- Official website
- Tigas, Mike (Jan 13, 2016). "A More Secure and Anonymous ProPublica Using Tor Hidden Services". ProPublica.
- "ProPublica Internal Revenue Service filings". ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.