ProPublica appoints Sandoval research reporter

  Gabriel L. Sandoval has joined ProPublica as a research reporter. Recently, Sandoval was a reporter at The City, where he previously interned. He is part of the adjunct faculty at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He interned at WNYC Radio, Chico News & Review and The Chronicle of Higher Education. […]

ProPublica wins business and finance Scripps Howard Award

ProPublica’s “The Secret IRS Files” was named the winner in the business and financial category of the 69th annual Scripps Howard Awards. The series ignited a worldwide debate about wealth and inequality. The judges wrote, “If you were not outraged by the U.S. tax system before reading this series, you will be when you are […]

Evans named chief product and brand officer at ProPublica

The following excerpt was sent out: ProPublica announced Wednesday that Tyson Evans will join its staff as the organization’s first chief product and brand officer. In this position, he will use his extensive newsroom experience on both the business and editorial sides to oversee the vision and execution of ProPublica’s publishing platforms, including its websites, […]

Washington Post hires Arnsdorf as national political reporter

The Washington Post has hired Isaac Arnsdorf as a national political reporter. Recently, he was working as a national politics investigative reporter at ProPublica. Before that, he was covering money in politics, lobbying and influence for Politico. He is also a former Politico Influence newsletter writer. He has also worked at Bloomberg as a reporter […]

ProPublica hires Washington Post’s Branstetter

ProPublica announced on Monday that Ziva Branstetter will join its staff as a senior editor. She will start on April 12. Branstetter comes to ProPublica from The Washington Post, where since 2018 she has served as the corporate accountability editor, leading a new investigative team in the newspaper’s financial section. An investigation she edited on a […]

New York Times makes two new hires on the politics team

The New York Times has tapped Jazmine Ulloa as a roving midterm reporter based in Washington and Alexandra Berzon as an investigative reporter. Ulloa joins from The Boston Globe, where she was a national political reporter. Before that, she was a state politics and policy reporter at the Los Angeles Times. She has also reported […]

LA Times hires Briscoe to cover environment and air quality

The Los Angeles Times has hired ProPublica reporter Tony Briscoe to cover air quality and environmental health. He will start on April 4. He previously worked at The Chicago Tribune as an environmental reporter, writing extensively about issues facing the Great Lakes and the impacts of climate change in the Midwest. His reporting on the Illinois […]

ProPublica series on tax evasion wins Selden Ring Award

The  ProPublica series, “The Secret IRS Files,” has won the 2022 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for exposing how some of the richest people in America take advantage of the tax code to avoid paying even a single dollar in income taxes in some years. The annual award, one of the foremost honors in investigative journalism, has […]

NY Times makes changes on International

The New York Times has tapped Agnes Chang and Josh Holder as visual reporters on the International desk helping expand The Times’ data, graphics and multimedia coverage. Chang will be based in Seoul and joins from ProPublica, where she was a creative story technologist. She has previously worked at The Times as a creative technologist, […]

ProPublica reporter Lind set to leave

Dara Lind, a reporter covering immigration at ProPublica, will be leaving at the end of the year. Previously, Lind was at Vox.com, where she was a staff writer, senior reporter and then a senior correspondent. Lind has also interned at Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. Lind […]