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Peter DiCampo

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Visuals Editor @ProPublica.org working mostly on our collaborations with local newsrooms across the country. Cofounder of The Everyday Projects. @jskstanford.bsky.social alum. Journalism, photography, metal, comic books, etc. MSP based.

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paigepfleger.bsky.social @paigepfleger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1/ I first heard the name Jason Crews in 2024. A bill to add outside oversight to the juvenile justice system failed. A lawmaker said Crews’ lobbying was a factor. “I can’t think of a reason for not wanting oversight unless there’s something to hide,” an advocate said. 🧵
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 24/06/2026
“It’s really important for ProPublica that we have reporters who aren’t just parachuting in … but who actually live in the communities,” says reporter Jennifer Smith Richards. “The problem is that … we’re not paid the same.” Help ProPublica’s workers fight for fair pay: www.propublicaguild.org
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A word on needing AI guardrails in our contract. We know it's important to our readers; let's get this language in there!
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 23/06/2026
“I have heard from our managers at ProPublica that they don’t intend to replace us with AI. And that’s great. But we’re gonna need that in writing.” This is why we’re fighting for protections against artificial intelligence:
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Meet my wonderful @propublicaguild.org colleagues <3
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 11/05/2026
We asked @propublica.org's board to agree to a fair contract. Chair Paul Sagan replied that they support management, whose last offer includes weak job security, minimal guardrails on AI & wages that don’t keep up w/ rising costs. We know you stand with us. Tell Mr. Sagan: shorturl.at/MkUbQ
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Tell ProPublica’s board that you stand with its workers
We asked ProPublica’s board to agree to a fair contract, but Chair Paul Sagan replied that they support management, whose latest offer includes weak job security, minimal guardrails on AI and wages th...
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 01/05/2026
1/ Happy International Workers' Day to all our fellow workers and unions! ✊ ICYMI, our bargaining unit exercised our collective power to walk out on a one-day strike last month, as we fight for a fair contract.
A group of about 40 people stand or squat on a sidewalk. Many have fists raised in the air. Many are hodling signs that read "ON ULP STRIKE", "PROPUBLICA WORKERS DESERVE FAIR PAY", "THOUGHTS NOT BOTS", and "PROPUBLICA WORKERS HEART A FAIR CONTRACT". A group of about 8 people stand on the sidewalk in front of a table covered in signs. The signs say "PROPUBLICA WORKERS ON STRIKE FOR A FAIR CONTRACT" and "HONK". The people are holding signs and smiling.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/04/2026
NEW: Kentucky’s largest drug rehab center touts a Christian message and a selfless commitment to helping others. But internally, the organization prioritized money over the well-being of its clients and staff, interviews show. W/ @kentucky.com www.propublica.org/article/kent...
Image of a ProPublica headline that reads "They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud." The headline is illustrated with a pair of hands holding a miniature rehab center. One hand is dropping a small human through the top of the building. From the bottom of the building, a $100 bill emerges.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
Today, you helped us show @propublica.org management that, without us, there is no ProPublica. And we’re not stopping this fight until we get the contract we deserve. Donate to our strike fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...
A ProPublica worker high fives a giant inflatable rat nicknamed Scabby. Resting on the belly of Scabby is a sign that says: ProPublica workers on strike for a fair contract.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Made a picket sign with references.
A handwritten poster that says: “Just cause now! It’s not hard. [Footnote: see NYT, Reuters, AP, etc]”
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I love my job. I believe in ProPublica's mission. I have so much work to do today on a story that should publish soon. But today, I'm on strike with my colleagues at the @propublicaguild.org. Hoping we get over the finish line SOON on our very first contract -- and a fair one.
Selfie of Anna in front of a window, wearing a ProPublica Guild T-shirt.
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Mario Alejandro Ariza @marioarizabaez.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Today, I and the rest of the @propublicaguild.org are on strike. Why? Because we deserve a fair contract - one that locks in just cause, AI protections, and fair wages for all union members.
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I love working at @propublica.org. I'm on strike for the day because I want it to be a better place to work, for everyone. Please support our fight for a fair contract.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/03/2026
NEW: After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist @peterdicampo.bsky.social saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbors, in their city, in their own words.
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Trump Called My Neighbors “Paid Agitators.” This is Who They Really Are.
After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbo...
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“Whether gathering with friends or ordering coffee or running into a neighbor while walking my dog, every recent conversation has led to the same place: What are you doing to meet this moment?” Beautiful photo essay by @peterdicampo.bsky.social / @propublica.org
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Trump Called My Neighbors “Paid Agitators.” This is Who They Really Are.
After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbo...
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇
Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
NEW: Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.
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“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer”
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Our visual journalists @cengizyar.com and @peterdicampo.bsky.social documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis. Here's what they saw 👇
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What We Saw in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
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Cengiz Yar @cengizyar.com · 31/01/2026
My @propublica.org colleague @peterdicampo.bsky.social & I reported from Minnesota last week, amid the federal immigration crackdown. This is what we saw: www.propublica.org/article/minn...
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What We Saw in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/01/2026
Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found. On Thurs., Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. ET, we’ll be on Reddit taking your questions about the continued fallout of slashing aid for some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. 📌 Save the date:
Collage of ProPublica reporter Anna Barry-Jester (top left), photographer Peter DiCampo (top right) and reporter Brett Murphy holding up pieces of paper about an upcoming Reddit AMA on the downfall of USAID. The AMA is to be held in r/IAmA on Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. ET. The account answering questions is u/propublica_.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/01/2026
LIVE NOW: Our reporters Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social and photographer @peterdicampo.bsky.social are taking your questions on Reddit about how Trump’s gutting of USAID exacerbated a cholera epidemic and created an American-made hunger crisis 👇
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From the IAmA community on Reddit: We’re ProPublica reporters who traveled to some of the world’s largest refugee camps after Trump officials gutted USAID. Secretary Rubio claimed no one died as a res...
Explore this post and more from the IAmA community
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis. Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NEW: Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis in the world’s third largest refugee camp. After the U.S. failed to fund the World Food Program in Kenya, we went to the Kakuma refugee camp. This is what we found:
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug. We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
No-brainer proposals met with strikethroughs. Great.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2025
EMTALA requires universal care for “emergency medical conditions” regardless of a person’s insurance status. In the decades since its passage, some patients have died hours after failing to receive care they were legally entitled to. By @emcahan.bsky.social
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Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences.
Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.
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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A good ad on the DC Metro
ProPublica ad: “someone on this train has the next big story. Is it you?” With URL and Signal address
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 15/09/2025
We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 16/09/2025
We ❤️ @ire.org! @propublica.org employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract. The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible. You can help by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
People wearing union shirts stand outside a red carpet at the entrance of an event as people walk in.People wearing union shirts and stickers smile and hand out ProPublica Guild buttons.Five people sit at a table for an event wearing stickers and buttons supporting the ProPublica Guild.Two people walking into an event wear stickers in support of the ProPublica Guild.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 12/08/2025
Our New York members took their lunch outside today to demand that @propublica.org management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system ✊
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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
We can’t produce fearless journalism @ProPublica without knowing our jobs are secure. That’s why I walked out for lunch today — to show support for Just Cause protections that apply to every @ProPublicaGuild worker, every time.
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Georgia is the only state with such a mandate. Its experience shows that the federal effort could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans & cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and c...
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Three colleagues are being placed on PIPs today, and @propublica.org management has refused to allow stewards in those meetings. We're not shutting up about this — our colleagues deserve better and we're extremely disappointed in management for denying us this basic union right.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/05/2025
1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇
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ProPublica management continues to deny steward representation
Yesterday morning, ProPublica management confirmed that it will deny steward representation to at least two more bargaining unit members it plans to discipline next week through the issuance of Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs). 
This is part of a larger pattern: management has denied steward representation in every meeting where members were placed on PIPs. The plans are the first step in a disciplinary process that often leads to termination.
We have raised this issue repeatedly.
Last Thursday, more than 70% of our unit sent an open letter to ProPublica leadership, urging them to stop resisting core union protections including steward access, just cause and accountability in the disciplinary process.
This week, managers informed two employees that they would be placed on PIPs in meetings next week. Shortly afterward, ProPublica’s general counsel told Guild leadership that stewards will not be allowed in those meetings.
ProPublica’s disciplinary process remains opaque, inconsistently applied and shielded from scrutiny. Blocking stewards from these meetings is out of step with our industry and the principles of fairness and accountability the newsroom claims to uphold.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 01/05/2025
Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to @sengelberg.bsky.social and @robinsparkman.bsky.social asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.
Dear Steve and Robin,
Since we unionized in 2023, we have worked hard to reach a contract that honors ProPublica's
mission. In order to fulfill that vision, our values of fairness, transparency and accountability
must apply not only to our reporting but also to our workplace.
Our proposals have sought basic contractual rights that align with those values and exist at
many other unionized newsrooms.
Instead of working with us to codify those rights, you have struck through many of our
proposals, called for broad carve outs and delayed discussion of key provisions such as
protections against layoffs and overwork. Those tactics are not in line with the ProPublica you
say you want to build.
In recent months:
● You have refused to allow stewards in performance meetings that could lead to
discipline.
● You have resisted attempts to reform our disciplinary system, rejecting a standard
approach to just cause and measures to improve transparency and clarity.
● You rejected our proposal that would ensure our jobs will not be replaced by artificial
intelligence.
What we are seeking is simple: ProPublica management must uphold its values in its own
workplace. We expect that your proposals going forward will reflect these shared values.
Sincerely,
ProPublica Guild
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Dan Petty @danielpetty.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper. Here's how you can reach us.
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Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You.
We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/01/2025
A 15-year-old opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School. A month later, a 17-year-old killed a classmate at Antioch High School. According to researchers, both were active in the same online networks that glorify mass shooters. By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social, w/ @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social
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Madison and Nashville School Shooters Appear to Have Crossed Paths in Online Extremist Communities
A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and en...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This is really scary. “This network is best described as an online subculture that celebrates violent attacks and radicalizes young people into committing violence,” said a violence prevention researcher. @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social
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Madison and Nashville School Shooters Appear to Have Crossed Paths in Online Extremist Communities
A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and en...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Incredible @adn.com front page for @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social story about trial delays in Alaska. Read it here: projects.propublica.org/alaska-sex-a...
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Tense, compelling illustrations by @nicolerifkin.bsky.social. In two stories this week, @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social chronicles shocking delays in the AK justice system as they take years to send sexual assault cases to trial. www.propublica.org/article/anch... projects.propublica.org/alaska-sex-a...
A scene at Delaney Park in Anchorage, Alaska, shows (in overlapping comic book style panels) a crowd of people, an overview of the park, a man looking at a woman, a woman lying on the ground, and a hand holding a jug.A series of overlapping comic book panels shows a gavel slowly banging down, a courtroom scene, a case file, and people wringing their hands or holding their heads in a sign of frustration.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/12/2024
This film was inspired by the groundbreaking reporting of Duaa Eldeib (@deldeib.bsky.social). Her series, "Stillbirths," was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. It includes a memorial for children lost to stillbirths: propub.li/49wf0OI
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A Memorial for the Children Lost to Stillbirth
Each day in the U.S., about 60 babies are stillborn. Here, families share their child’s name and their lasting legacy.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/12/2024
More than 20,000 pregnancies in the United States end in stillbirth each year. At least 1 in 4 are likely preventable. Our new documentary, “Before a Breath,” gives voice to parents who have lost children to stillbirth. Here’s a sneak peek. propub.li/41v87Lz
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Sign Up to Screen Our New Documentary About Stillbirths
“Before a Breath” gives voice to parents who have lost children to stillbirth. Screenings for the film will roll out across the country in early 2025. Here’s how you can get involved to help spread the word.
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Ziva Branstetter @zivabranstetter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If you use our tool to get your own file, here’s how to help our team learn more about the ways insurers deny claims … www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System.
Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.
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Peter DiCampo @peterdicampo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
@drjenellstewart.bsky.social and I read this sitting next to each other. Every time I looked up, she was wide-eyed and shaking her head. @davidmcswane.bsky.social's latest story is horrifying and nuanced, and I couldn't put it down. www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/12/2024
This is what we mean by investigative journalism in the public interest. (thread) 👇
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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Right now you’re likely breathing in a tiny bit of formaldehyde, which can cause breathing problems and cancer more than any other chemical in the air. For the past year, the EPA has been working to regulate its use. Here's why that's proven to be tough 🧵
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Startling story by @audreydutton.bsky.social: For Decades, Calls for Reform to Idaho’s Troubled Coroner System Have Gone Unanswered
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For Decades, Calls for Reform to Idaho’s Troubled Coroner System Have Gone Unanswered
Idaho’s patchwork of 44 coroner’s offices leaves grief-stricken parents without answers in their children’s deaths and creates disparities in coroners’ investigations.
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