Founded in 2008, at the height of the global recession, ProPublica is a non-profit, independent newsroom led by Paul Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Their investigative pieces depend on partnerships with large news organizations like 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC World News, The New York Times and This American Life, among many others.
Funding: Propublica is funded mostly through a $10 million-a-year grant from the billionaire Sandler family. They also receive support from the Knight Foundation.
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Deadly Choices at Memorial by Sheri Fink
This Pulitzer Prize winning investigation of decisions made by exhausted doctors in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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