ProPublica reporter Silverman departs
ProPublica investigative reporter Craig Silverman has left the news organization after nearly four years. He has been focused on platforms, disinformation, cyberfraud and other forms of online manipulation. His work earned two SABEW Best in Business Awards. Silverman previously worked at BuzzFeed News, where he held the title of media editor and produced a string […]
Turton, formerly with Bloomberg and Wired, joins ProPublica
William Turton has joined ProPublica to cover the Department of Government Efficiency. He previously was a senior writer at Wired and also worked at Bloomberg News covering hackers and cybersecurity. Turton also worked as a reporter at VICE News Tonight on HBO. Turton has also worked as a staff reporter for The Outline from May 2017 to October […]
ProPublica hires Clarke from Bloomberg Industry Group
ProPublica has hired Ashley Clarke for its crowdsourcing and engagement reporting team. Clarke plans to cover issues that impact low-income individuals and families, particularly those living in urban communities, focusing on topics like housing insecurity and homelessness, education, transportation and environment. She comes to ProPublica from Bloomberg Industry Group, where she covered law firms and worked with […]
ProPublica hires Asher-Schapiro
Avi Asher-Schapiro, a tech correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Los Angeles, has been hired by ProPublica as a reporter in Washington. He anchored the foundation’s global tech coverage, leading investigations on multiple continents into major platforms from Amazon to Facebook to Uber. Before joining the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Asher-Schapiro was a tech correspondent […]
ProPublica hires Bing from Reuters
ProPublica has hired Reuters cybersecurity reporter Christopher Bing as a reporter in its Washington bureau. He will start in December. Bing, a cybersecurity and intelligence reporter for Reuters in Washington, has explored how digital espionage impacts national security and foreign affairs. Bing joined Reuters in 2018 and became team leader for its cyber investigations unit in […]
ProPublica hires Rosenberg of Reuters to cover immigration
ProPublica announced Friday that it hired Mica Rosenberg as an immigration reporter. Rosenberg comes from Reuters, where she most recently led its immigration team as both a reporter and editor and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting with colleagues for a series of stories about companies employing immigrant children. Rosenberg began her time […]
ProPublica hires Bloomberg Law’s Green to be DC senior editor
ProPublica announced on Thursday that veteran investigative journalist Ronnie Greene will serve as senior editor in Washington, D.C., and oversee a growing operation of journalists covering centers of power in the nation’s capital. Greene joins ProPublica from Bloomberg Law, where he was a chief investigative correspondent and worked on a series of stories that revealed […]
Chicago Sun-Times biz editor Hudson chosen for ProPublica training
Chicago Sun-Times business editor Subrina Hudson has been selected as a participant in ProPublica’s investigative editor training program. Participants will undergo a five-day intensive editing boot camp in New York, with courses and panel discussions led by ProPublica’s senior editors. After the boot camp, participants will gather virtually every two months for continuing development seminars and […]
Bloomberg hires Pulitzer winner Armstrong in Seattle
Bloomberg’s Robert Blau and Otis Bilodeau sent the following note to staff on Monday: We’ve long admired Ken Armstrong for the depth of his reporting and the inventiveness of his storytelling. He’s investigated a broad range of topics, from criminal justice to college sports. He’s mastered narrative across multiple platforms — newspapers, magazines, books, radio […]
ProPublica wins NYFWA award for distinguished financial journalism
The New York Financial Writers’ Association announced that ProPublica reporters Justin Elliott, Josh Kaplan, Brett Murphy and Alex Mierjeski have been named winners of the 2023 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism. The award is for a series of articles investigating conflict of interest, failed oversight and ethical indiscretions at the nation’s highest court. The series is titled, “Friends of the Court: […]
