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 […]
ProPublica names Papajohn editor of Midwest newsroom
ProPublica has promoted George Papajohn to the post of editor for its Chicago-based Midwest newsroom. He recently served as senior editor, helping edit projects from the national newsroom and ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. He was previously at BuzzFeed, where he was an editor, government accountability and investigations. He also served as an investigations editor/associate managing […]
Bloomberg’s Mehrotra joins ProPublica to cover immigration and labor
ProPublica has tapped former Bloomberg reporter Kartikay Mehrotra to cover issues at the intersection of immigration and labor. He begins Dec. 1. Mehrotra has been with Bloomberg for 10 years, recently working as a cybersecurity reporter. Before that, he has served as a legal reporter, economy and government reporter, technology reporter and a reporter covering […]
ProPublica wins top award at Barlett & Steele Awards
ProPublica won the gold in the 15th annual Barlett & Steele Awards for investigative business journalism. The Associated Press won the silver, and a team of reporters from The Oregonian, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and ProPublica won the bronze. The awards are named for the investigative team of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, whose […]
Bloomberg hires ProPublica’s Gillum to cover cybersecurity
Bloomberg News has hired Jack Gillum of ProPublica to cover cybersecurity in its Washington bureau. He will start later this month. Gillum has been a senior reporter covering technology and the ways algorithms, big data and social media platforms impact civil rights. He came to ProPublica from The Washington Post, where he was part of the investigative team for […]
