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ProPublica is a prominent American nonprofit news organization that produces investigative journalism. ProPublica was founded by former Wall Street Journal editor Paul Steiger and San Francisco-area billionaires Herbert and Marion Sandler in 2007 and launched to much attention shortly thereafter. It is based in New York. Much of ProPublica’s funding has been provided by the…

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Ken Doctor    April 18, 2013
Could it be that investing in the newsroom isn’t just good for journalism — that it’s also good for the bottom line?
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Caroline O'Donovan    March 26, 2013
“If we could start to really connect people around story ideas before they’re reported, in a way that makes sense and is using technology in a savvy way and make it efficient to do, we would be really interested in doing that.”
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Al Shaw    March 20, 2013
“Casino-driven design is all about reducing friction to participation.”
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Tyson Evans    December 20, 2012
People who work with code leave messages with each update they make. These are their (short) stories.
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Richard Tofel and Scott Klein    December 13, 2012
As the pro-sharing license celebrates its 10th birthday, the nonprofit outlet says encouraging republication has meant more than 4 million extra pageviews on its stories so far this year.
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Amanda Zamora    December 12, 2012
The nonprofit’s ambitious effort got hundreds of readers to sift through television ad spending records. Here’s what they learned along the way.
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Ken Doctor    November 29, 2012
Technology is aiding reporting at both the high and the low ends of the business.
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Adrienne LaFrance    October 18, 2012
Crowdsourcing and computer intelligence help reverse-engineer campaign targeting.
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Adrienne LaFrance    September 27, 2012
The site wants your help assembling a database of television ad buys in swing states.
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Justin Ellis    September 6, 2012
Some projects, like DocumentCloud and Ushahidi, were widely adopted in the media. Others stumbled due to technical problems or resistance from partners.
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Adrienne LaFrance    August 22, 2012
At leading media companies, like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the majority of traffic now bypasses the homepage.
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Justin Ellis    July 18, 2012
The Guardian’s U.S. site enlists readers in an ongoing effort to help aggregate news and analysis for top stories.
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Adrienne LaFrance    July 18, 2012
The three-year grant means ProPublica will add staff to its news applications team.
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Ken Doctor    June 21, 2012
Publishers are getting more aggressive about repackaging their work into ebooks, iPad magazines, and other new forms, in the hopes of creating something readers will pay for.