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Charles Ornstein, ProPublicaMay 30, 2023

How ProPublica reached workers while reporting on dairy farm conditions

“We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.”

Connor Goodwin, ProPublicaOctober 14, 2021

The view from here: Rethinking what local news can and should be

“Your newsroom should match the community. It’s the easiest thing to say, it’s very difficult to do.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 23, 2021

The LA Times’ Kevin Merida thinks Los Angeles is “the perfect place to redefine the modern newspaper”

“We don’t have to turn around a whole big ship. We can try things.”

Richard TofelSeptember 21, 2021

Fewer grants, more risks: Four rules for nonprofit journalism funders, from the former president of ProPublica

“Any national donor large enough to put out press releases that issues one about making a bunch of $25,000 grants is either trying to fool other people or themselves.”

Joshua BentonAugust 9, 2021

With a tight focus on inequality and a new CEO, the Center for Public Integrity plots a path forward

“I’m not worried about the journalism. But if you don’t have the business and technical infrastructure to support the journalism, then it’s just not going to thrive.”

Sarah ScireNovember 10, 2020

ProPublica experiments with ultra-accessible plain language in stories about people with disabilities

ProPublica’s plain language experiment is a first for a mainstream news organization. Disability experts say it shouldn’t be the last.

Sarah ScireSeptember 17, 2020

A new nonprofit newsroom, Mountain State Spotlight, wants to be the watchdog for West Virginia

“In my experience in legacy media, the answer was to throw your hands in the air and say, ‘There’s not much we can do.’ Well, I don’t find that acceptable. We have to find ways to reach those audiences.”

Joshua BentonAugust 6, 2020

In the arena: Ken Doctor is moving from “media analyst” to “media CEO” with Lookout, his plan for quality local news

Lookout doesn’t want its local news sites to be a supplement or alternative to the local daily. They aim to be the news source of record in their communities, outgunning their shrunken newsprint rivals from Day 1.

Sarah ScireMarch 5, 2020

How engagement reporting is helping ProPublica journalists find their next big story

“There’s all different kinds of lawsuits. We’re sort of the class action of an investigative story, harnessing and channeling the power in numbers.”

Sarah ScireFebruary 25, 2020

“Big tech is watching you. Who’s watching big tech?” The Markup is finally ready for liftoff

After a false start, the unconventional team of algorithm investigators is ready to dive deep. “I’ve heard that we are tying our hands behind our backs, but there must be a way to engage an audience without subjecting readers to a surveillance ecosystem.”

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