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How these journalists are using their work in service of community and equity.

Two teens aged out of the state’s child welfare system last year. These photos show how different their lives have become.

November 2, 2023 | Two teens aged out of New Mexico’s child welfare system last year. What made their lives so different?

Five years after ProPublica and the South Bend Tribune partnered to investigate police misconduct in Elkhart, Indiana, reporter Ken Armstrong reflects on the incremental but powerful impact journalism can have on communities.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

The three years I spent working on “The Kids of Rutherford County” podcast taught me one thing: Tennessee’s punitive policies aren’t leaving children in the legal system better off.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism (NCDJ) today announced the winners of the 2023 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award and the Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability.

One of two majority-Black communities in the state was left out of a regulatory effort earlier this year to tighten limits on cancer-causing chemicals.

After a Capital & Main and ProPublica investigation found that landlords were turning low-cost housing into tourist hotels, the city ordered some building owners to comply with the law.

Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.