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ProPublica and The Texas Tribune announced on Friday that Zahira Torres has been named the new senior editor of their investigative reporting initiative. She will begin later this month. Torres, who has served as an editor for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, will lead the investigative unit and manage a team of reporters and other staffers based in the Tribune’s Austin, Texas, newsroom. She replaces Manny García, who has been named editor of the Austin American-Statesman.
“A lifelong Texan, Zahira has cut her teeth covering Austin, investigating Texas and leading a newsroom,” said Charles Ornstein, ProPublica’s managing editor, local. “Her leadership of Local Reporting Network projects has shown she thinks big. She’s committed to not only exposing things that are not working but reporting on proposed solutions. I know Zahira will continue to be a standout newsroom leader in this new role.”
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Dec. 22, 2:04 p.m. EST In 2018, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center s chief medical officer, Dr. José Baselga, resigned under fire over his failure to disclose payments from health care companies in dozens of research articles he wrote.
Now, recent Internal Revenue Service filings show the nonprofit hospital paid more than $1.5 million in severance to Baselga in 2018 and 2019.
The revelations about the former executive led to significant changes governing Memorial Sloan Kettering s ties to the health care and pharmaceutical industries and prompted an overhaul of its conflict-of-interest policies. The disclosure failures, which were uncovered by The New York Times and ProPublica, also led to a broader reexamination of how medical journals enforce their conflict-of-interest policies as well as heightened scrutiny of the relationships between medical researchers and for-profit companies at cancer centers arou