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Michael D’Antonio is an author, journalist, and commentator on CNN. He shared the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting with a team of Newsday reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including Never Enough, a 2015 biography of Donald Trump, and A Consequential President, a 2017 book on the Presidency of Barack Obama. His book Mortal Sins was a 2014 Edgar Award nominee.
A Woman With Developmental Disabilities Was Abused in Arizona. The State Promised Changes. It Has Not Made Them Yet. A woman with DD living in a state home was raped and had a baby. A task force was made to come up with changes to protect people like her. Most of those changes have not happened yet. Jan. 20, 5 a.m. EST This is Hacienda HealthCare. It is in Phoenix. This is where a woman with DD was raped. She had a baby here two years ago. (Matt York/AP) Inside Arizona’s Division of Developmental Disabilities We wrote this story in plain language. Plain langu...
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 newsrooms across the country to bring much needed scrutiny to their public officials, private businesses an...
This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Emory Webster can talk again â and sheâs got a lot to say. Last month, the Arizona Daily Star and ProPublica reported that Emory, who is 11 and has cerebral palsy, had been waiting more than 18 months for a communication device from the stateâs Division of Developmental Disabilities, or DDD. The wait was over the day after the story appeared. âMonday morning I had a text from our service coordinator at DDD that miraculously the talker had arrived and it was in their office,â...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was produced in partnership with the Arizona Daily Star, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Emory Webster can talk again — and she’s got a lot to say. Last month, the Arizona Daily Star and ProPublica reported that Emory, who is 11 and has cerebral palsy, had been waiting more than 18 months for a communication device from the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities, or DDD. The wait was over the day af...