When Pam talks about how prosecutors questioning these women on the stand was often triggering for the women, all of whom had experienced abuse, often including hostile questioning, I said, "OH MY GOD" out loud. Of course it mirrors abusive behavior. Of course. But I had never considered that.

I'm so lucky to work with the brilliant @jlussenhop.bsky.social and @propublica.org's crackerjack audio team. Please listen to this episode about April Wilkens, who was handed a life sentence for murder after she fought back against her abuser.

occasional reminder that my [award-winning] second book is in paperback and it's cheap as hell. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

WITHOUT CONSENT is an incredible book about the decades-long legal battle to make spousal rape a crime in America. This is such a well-deserved award from The American Society of Journalists and Authors (@asjahq.bsky.social). Brava @sarahweinman.com!!

In this interview with Henry Fernandez for @thenation.com, I had the chance to talk about my forthcoming book, our deeply flawed criminal justice system, and that time in college that my student journalism landed me in hot water and taught me some painful lessons. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My deepest thanks to @nytimes.com for including my forthcoming book, CATCH THE DEVIL, in this list of summer nonfiction titles! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

Huge thanks to @bostonglobe.com for including my forthcoming book, CATCH THE DEVIL, on this list! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/27/a...

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune announced on Friday that Alexandra Glorioso, a state government reporter at the Miami Herald, is joining their investigative initiative as a reporter.

"CATCH THE DEVIL is a sobering glimpse inside a criminal justice system bent on securing convictions...This troubling work is animated by a spirit similar to Bryan Stevenson's JUST MERCY and David Dow's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EXECUTION." My deepest thanks to @harvf.bsky.social @shelf-awareness.com

In 2003, Angel Resendiz — the Railroad Killer — confessed a murder to me on Texas Death Row. The man convicted of carrying it out has spent over 9,000 nights in prison. New evidence shows he didn't do it. New episode of Dead Man Talking: open.spotify.com/episode/64rJ...

Delighted and shocked to learn last night that we won a National Magazine Award for some of our immigration reporting - including our story on how the Venezuelan men Trump sent to a Salvadoran prison were tortured, and on the dramatic midnight raid in Chicago. 😃 www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

Thanks so much to @npr.org for including my forthcoming book on this list, and to @kwistent.bsky.social for her generous words!

Oregon prosecutors said she didn’t protect her baby. She says she was surviving abuse. www.investigatewest.org/prosecutors-...

A stellar review by @aviatrixkim.bsky.social in Pursuit Magazine of my forthcoming book, CATCH THE DEVIL. I'm not sure there's any tougher audience than private investigators, so I'm particularly grateful. pursuitmag.com/catch-the-de...

Here we go. @pamelacolloff.bsky.social #booksky #longreads #journalism

Join Pamela Colloff on July 13th to celebrate CATCH THE DEVIL: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER, DECEPTION, AND INJUSTICE ON THE GULF COAST. She will be in conversation with Rachel Monroe. More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople... @pamelacolloff.bsky.social @rachelmonroe.bsky.social

ChatGPT Wrestles With Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack?

Our “The End of Aid” series about the fallout from the destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development was named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category. www.propublica.org/series/the-e...

JUST IN: ProPublica and @ctmirror.org's “On the Hook” series, which exposed how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. It’s ProPublica’s ninth Pulitzer Prize.

"The ProPublica tips truck was a key component for generating sources." www.propublica.org/article/prop...

So incredibly proud of @texasmonthly.bsky.social and @freshparsley.bsky.social, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. His gutting, first-person account of last summer's Texas flooding is one of the most powerful stories I've ever read. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Austin friends! Join me, @liseolsen.bsky.social, and Kate Winkler Dawson this Saturday, at the KUT Festival. I'll be interviewing Lise and Kate about their extraordinary investigative work. Location has changed to East Austin. RSVP for free tickets. More info: cvent.utexas.edu/event/kutfes...

This book is amazing, everything I thought it would be and more. Can't wait to celebrate it in July!

I'll be kicking off my book tour in Austin at @bookpeople.com, in partnership with @texasbookfest.bsky.social. Join me and the brilliant @rachelmonroe.bsky.social on 7/13! From there, I'll head to Houston, Dallas, NYC, DC & Florida. More details to come. RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

As more states enact survivor-justice laws, it remains to be seen if the criminal justice system is capable of perceiving someone like Wilkens not just as a perpetrator who must be punished but also as a victim deserving of mercy. Read the full story by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social:

ICYMI: A mysterious impostor who claimed to be ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi reached out to a Canadian official and a Latvian businessman working with Ukraine. So, the real @robert-faturechi.bsky.social did some reporting of his own.

Join DIRTBAG, MASSACHUSETTS author Isaac Fitzgerald on June 2nd discussing AMERICAN RAMBLER: WALKING THE TRAIL OF JOHNNY APPLESEED with Pamela Colloff. 🥾🍎 More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople... @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

The paperback edition of WITHOUT CONSENT (with a very different cover) isn’t out till November 3 but pre-orders are welcome right now! www.harpercollins.com/products/wit...

When Bondi took over, the DOJ declined to prosecute a staggering 23,000 criminal cases, including those stemming from yearslong investigations into charges of terrorism, white collar crime and drugs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“Whatever this bundle of personal-brand rights McConaughey is asserting morphs into over time … we might one day look back and see that [he] has trademarked something else entirely: A prototype for personal agency in a world of AI."

Was Sam Houston's signature a little much? Sure. But yours could be a little more.

Please read this enraging @mississippitoday.org investigation into the practice of striking prospective Black jurors from Mississippi juries. Prosecutors cited "strange hair" or a bad "vibe"--and appeals courts upheld it. SCOTUS looks at one such case on 3/31: mississippitoday.org/2026/03/12/m...

The iconic Cesar Chavez mural in East Austin...is gone.

Would you look at that... I won the New York City Book Award! www.nysoclib.org/2025-2026-ne...

A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.

When my mother died, I wrote a letter to the name plaintiff on her case—who was serving a life sentence for an unthinkable crime—to talk about grief. When he passed, his daughter reached out said she’d like me to tell her story too. My latest for @rollingstone.com: apple.news/A7c7VYYnrTc6...

My latest, a collaboration between @propublica.org + @nytimes.com, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine. The gift link leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by Julia Whalen: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/m...

For @propublica.org’s weekly newsletter, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social shares stories that one incarcerated woman collected inside prison. The accounts speak to what they see as a link between domestic abuse and their convictions. Powerful. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Like everything @pamelacolloff.bsky.social writes, this is well worth your time: www.propublica.org/article/okla...

ProPublica's investigative reporting is amazing! We need independent, reader supported journalism like never before. Please support ProPublica if you can, as I do.

Obviously reading any Pam Colloff piece is a must but also be on the lookout for Justine van der Leun’s outstanding new book, UNREASONABLE WOMEN, which will be published in June. Criminalized survival is a scourge.

Phenomenal and powerful article, highlighting the limits of legislative reform in reforming a system that fails survivors of abuse, over and over.

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com: An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Scoop from @keribla.bsky.social on how Orlando was released decades early from prison and delivered to the Waldorf Astoria:

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

"Every Day, a Leaf Blower," a memoir of working from home.