Lena V. Groeger
ProPublica
San Francisco, CA, United States
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What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there. → Read More
What It Looks Like When the New York City Police Commissioner Has “Unchecked Power” Over Officer Discipline
While a civilian board can prosecute misconduct cases involving NYPD officers, the police commissioner has the final word. Frequently, that power is used to reduce penalties. → Read More
What Coronavirus Job Losses Reveal About Racism in America
The catastrophic loss of millions of U.S. jobs is another part of the coronavirus pandemic that is falling disproportionately onto the shoulders of Black Americans. → Read More
States Are Reopening: See How Coronavirus Cases Rise or Fall
As states reopen, see if they meet White House guidelines for reopening and whether their COVID-19 infection rate is increasing or not. → Read More
How Safe Are Nursing Homes Near Me? This Tool Will Help You Find Out.
Nursing Home Inspect enables you to search through thousands of nursing home inspection reports to find problems and trends. Our latest update includes data on infection control violations, and notations for facilities that have had a coronavirus case. → Read More
Students! ProPublica Wants to Pay for You to Attend a Journalism Conference in 2019
We’re giving away 20 scholarships to help students attend journalism conferences like NABJ, ONA and IRE. Apply! → Read More
What ProPublica Is Doing About Diversity in 2019 —
Here is our annual report on the breakdown of our staff and how we’re working to create a more diverse newsroom and inclusive journalism community. → Read More
Miseducation
Is there racial inequality at your school? Based on civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education, ProPublica built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. Look up more than 96,000 individual public and charter schools and 17,000 school districts to see how they compare. → Read More
The Data Institute
The Ida B. Wells Society & ProPublica are proud to announce the 2018 Data Institute, a 2-week intensive workshop on how to use data, design and code for journalism. The workshop will be from Oct 1 to 12 in NYC. → Read More
Students! ProPublica Wants to Pay For You to Attend NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA, NAJA or NLGJA
We’re giving students 21 scholarships to attend journalism conferences. Apply! → Read More
What ProPublica Is Doing About Diversity in 2018 —
Here is a breakdown of our staff. And here is how we’re working to create a more diverse newsroom and inclusive journalism community. → Read More
Bombs in Your Backyard
The military spends more than a billion dollars a year to clean up sites its operations have contaminated with toxic waste and explosives. A map of these sites has never been made public — until now. Find ones near you. → Read More
Forms Matter —
How the design of forms can decide an election, affect racial profiling and shape identity → Read More
Forms Matter
How the design of forms can decide an election, affect racial profiling & shape identity → Read More
The Immigration Effect: There's a Way for President Trump to Boost the Economy by Four Percent, But He Probably Won't Like It
See for yourself what might happen to the economy if we increased immigration to the highest rates in history or dropped it to zero – and everything in between. → Read More
The Immigration Effect: There's a Way for President Trump to Boost the Economy by Four Percent, But He Probably Won't Like It
See for yourself what might happen to the economy if we increased immigration to the highest rates in history or dropped it to zero – and everything in between. → Read More
Announcing ProPublica’s 12 Diversity Scholarship Recipients
These 12 talented journalists will get $500 each to attend NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA or NAJA. → Read More
When the Designer Shows Up In the Design
How our assumptions, perspectives, intuitions — and yes, our biases — shape what we design and how we design it. → Read More
When The Designer Shows Up in the Design
How our assumptions, perspectives, intuitions—and yes, our biases—shape what we design and how we design it. → Read More
Students! ProPublica Wants to Pay For You to Attend NAHJ, NABJ, AAJA or NAJA
We’re awarding 12 scholarships to students across the country. Apply! → Read More