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Engagement reporter Adriana Gallardo meets with reporters participating in ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. (Claudio Papapietro for ProPublica) ProPublica was founded in 2008 to address a growing lack of investigative reporting amid a shrinking news business. The crisis of the press continues today, and over the past several years accountability journalism at local and regional levels has been particularly hard hit. Since our founding, ProPublica has partnered with local newsroo...

Wendi C. Thomas MLK50: Justice Through Journalism This ProPublica article was produced in partnership with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Fannie Stanberry had been on the job for two months as a package handler at FedEx Express’ massive World Hub when, toward the end of her overnight shift, packages started to fall from a huge shipping container that rolled past her. As Stanberry, then 61, bent to pick up the packages, she fell ...

Two ProPublica projects have been honored with the National Association of Black Journalists’ 2020 Salute to Excellence Awards. An investigation on the dispossession of African American landowners in the South, co-published with The New Yorker, won in the Magazine-Investigative category. Reporter Lizzie Presser came to the story after reading in a newspaper article that African Americans made up only 1% of the nation’s farmers. After poring over academic articles on the vulnerability of Afr...