ProPublica

Herbert Sandler, Paul E. Steiger

ProPublica is a 2007 in New York, was established, funded by foundations American non-profit Newsdesk for investigative journalism. The stated goal of permanent staff with 32 journalists and more than 2,200 volunteers largest such organization is the promotion of neglected for economic reasons investigative journalism in the United States.

Organization and financing

ProPublica was founded in October 2007 by the California real estate billionaires Herbert and Marion Sandler to promote investigative journalism in the United States. With a donated by the Sandler's annual budget of $ 10 million since 2008, 32 journalists carry out extensive research. As managing editor of the magazine Paul E. Steiger was used, who held the position before the Wall Street Journal. The largest known research for the article The Deadly Choices at Memorial took two years to complete and cost about $ 400,000. The article was written in collaboration with the New York Times Magazine and was financially supported by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Her research provides ProPublica often an editorial in advance exclusively and for free and then also free of charge with a Creative Commons license all other media. The Associated Press announced in June 2009 to take advantage of the offered Creative Commons license and to disseminate the research of ProPublica about their database.

Board of Directors

  • Herbert Sandler
  • Paul Steiger
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Mary Graham
  • Alberto Ibargüen
  • Rebecca Rimel

Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize for reporting in Germany in 2011 for the documentary " The Wall Street Money Machine" by Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein.
  • Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting in 2010 ( prize money of 35,000 U.S. dollars) for the report "Disposable Army " by T. Christian Miller. In the ongoing continuing reportage Miller describes the perilous work of civilian employees in Iraq and Afghanistan, which carry out tasks which can not accept the U.S. military or wants. The report was published, inter alia, from the LA Times, Washington Post and ABC News.
  • Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism in 2010 for the documentary "Deadly Choices at Memorial" by Sheri Fink.

Published research ( selection)

  • New York 's Gas Rush Poses Environmental Threat by Abrahm Lustgarten and Jonathan Sidhu and Allison Battey. In cooperation with WNYC ( transcript | audio ) and Albany Times - Union.
  • Palin administration oversaw $ 26 million ROAD to ' Nowhere ' by Paul Kiel with Lisa Schwartz. In cooperation with with Newsweek.
  • Criminal Past Is No Bar to Nursing in California by Charles Ornstein and Tracy weaving. In collaboration with Los Angeles Times
  • Government Study on Children Living in Katrina Trailers Muddled By Delays, Confusion by Joaquin Sapien. In cooperation with Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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