Many causes of inflation might seem unavoidable: war, consumer spending, Covid shutdowns. But here’s a mind-boggling one: Ocean carriers refused to accept empty shipping containers but charged late fees anyway. My latest :
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Please let me know if you're looking for a multimedia, bilingual reporter w/ experience investigating environment, healthcare, tech, immigration & criminal justice.
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1/ NEW: For the last year, we have been combing through a trove of confidential stock trading data, allowing us to see how the titans of American industry make themselves even wealthier in the stock market. (THREAD)
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Just 30 seconds of room tone!?!?! Don’t listen to the guy.
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I spent part of the past year editing stories about the harm that can come to students with disabilities in some schools and the difficult decisions parents have to make. Today's Poem-a-Day from hits hard.
How child labor investigations go wrong: A 13-year-old girl was one of dozens of kids cleaning slaughterhouses owned by JBS, the world's biggest meatpacker.
Prosecutors didn't charge JBS or its contractor, but put the girl's dad in jail and may deport him.
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1/ This investigation has it all: Money laundering allegations, Mennonite & evangelical Christians, Obamacare, CPAC, a family “conglomerate” that includes a pot farm, a private airline & a bank in the Ozarks.
Strap in as we magically whisk you away to… Canton, Ohio.
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The blog post says the stuffed bear was at one point owned by the country singer Waylon Jennings, who kept it in his home in Las Vegas, before it was delivered to the store. (The New York Times could not independently confirm this account.)
Last summer and I began looking into the death of an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy on a Wisconsin dairy farm. What we found was a story of an accumulation of failures in overlapping systems: immigration, labor, policing.
We hope you can read.
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The US is seeing an unprecedented wave of migrant child labor right now.
Thousands of kids are working overnight in dangerous factories for brands like Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom and Ford. They're here alone and they're being failed in the most basic way.
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THREAD: Low-income families face hurdles in Washington’s flawed special education system.
Here’s how one mom fought for her son and disrupted the system.
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I wrote about the tsunami of emotions that is being a parent who works in news -- and the way I now look at so many of the people we write about.
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So I requested records from this private special education school that only accepts students from public districts, whose tuition is paid for by taxpayers. They rejected the request, and we sued. A judge agreed the school is acting as a public agency.
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Congratulations to for receiving a special citation for her story on a tax credit subsidizing temp work. You can read it here: propublica.org/article/work-o
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Congratulations to the 2022 Philip Meyer Award winners!
1st place: @AP and @frontlinepbs
2nd place: @latimes
3rd place: @MarshallProj, WOVU and @cledocumenters
Special citation: @emilycorwin for @propublica
Read more about each project: ire.org/ire-announces-
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ProPublica is seeking a government or corporate accountability reporter for our Midwest office. The expected salary range for this position is $85,000 to $125,000. We will begin reviewing applications next week. Details here: propublica.org/jobs/midwest-r
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Pressure Mounts for Hospice Reform — “The New Yorker-ProPublica investigation shook the industry to its foundation.” Impact by
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Today, published four tapes recorded behind the scenes during executions in Virginia.
Evidence like this is so rare, death chamber tapes from another state have been released just once before in history.
The tapes reveal new & old government secrets
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"Let me love the world like a mother.
Let me be tender when it lets me down"
NYE poem by Maggie Smith ()
#Happy2023!
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The Investigative Editor Training aims to bolster the pipeline of diverse newsroom leaders shaping impactful accountability stories. We'll select 10 journalists for a yearlong training & mentorship program.
🗓️Applications open Feb. 2023
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Maybe I thought if I didn’t tweet this it wouldn’t be real. But it is. And anyway, Michael would want you to see this beautiful tribute penned by his dear friend Michael Lindenberger, Pulitzer-winner for Chronicle work, dies
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Impact! Citing investigation, Washington state proposes reforms for special education schools. Story by & :
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ICYMI, dig further into the corporation exploiting Washington's special education system.
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“Kids seem to be a paycheck”: How a billion-dollar corporation exploits Washington’s special education system
Universal Health Services collected $38 million in tax dollars for services that families and former teachers say it largely didn’t provide.
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ICYMI: With no one responsible for scrutinizing private special education schools in Washington state, even the most serious warning signs fell through the cracks, with devastating consequences. propublica.org/article/therap by partners
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A private school in Washington state gets millions in taxpayer dollars to serve kids with disabilities.
But there is a horrifying gap between what the school claims to be and what it actually is.
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A Washington state school promised to help students with serious disabilities. But despite years of abuse complaints and lack of academics, the state let the school stay open and receive millions in tax dollars. Great work by &
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Since we’re thinking about turkey, here’s a story & I did last year about how the turkey industry eradicated a dangerous salmonella outbreak & how the chicken industry is still dealing with one
