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ProPublica Guild
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We ❤️
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@propublica.org
employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract. The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible. You can help by signing our petition:
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ProPublica Guild
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We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for
@propublica.org
workers by adding your name to our petition:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-propublica-agree-to-real-job-protections-now
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ICYMI: our data analysis on the rise in sepsis rates in Texas after the abortion ban won an ONA award 🏆
@andreasuozzo.com
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Dhruv Mehrotra
19 days ago
All of this is brought to you by a dream team of
@jasonleopold.bsky.social
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@jeffkao.bsky.social
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@suryamattu.com
, Ava Benny-Morrison , Harry Wilson, and Max Abelson. It’s also my first story for Bloomberg Tips: dmehro.89 on Signal or
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Dhruv Mehrotra
19 days ago
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
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Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-ghislaine-maxwell/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NzU4MTg1MywiZXhwIjoxNzU4MTg2NjUzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMkYyQ0tHUEZIUUUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGOEM4RUQ0NDZENzU0QjY2QUUwMzY4QzkzQjE4OEFEQiJ9.-WI92AWhRNCK_GFn6Fk_Su-tzVa2RIU9pSwno562y_4
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
When the Trump administration refused to reveal how many workers had left federal health agencies, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact. Here’s how reporters
@pratheekrebala.bsky.social
@anniewaldman.bsky.social
and
@bxroberts.org
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How We Tracked Workforce Reductions at Federal Health Agencies
When the Trump administration refused to reveal how many workers had left federal health agencies, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact. Here’s how we did it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-health-agencies-workers-methodology?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-20
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ProPublica
about 1 month ago
NEW: More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
https://projects.propublica.org/federal-health-worker-cuts-rfk-trump-administration/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=8-20
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Annie Waldman
about 1 month ago
NEW: In March, the Trump administration announced a massive purge of workers at the nation's health agencies. We asked them how many workers were laid off, pushed out or left. They refused to give us numbers. So we conducted our own analysis... 🧵
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Sophie Chou
ProPublica Guild
about 2 months ago
ProPubli-paws love Just Cause 🐾
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Sophie Chou
ProPublica Guild
about 2 months ago
We took a collective lunch break today to protest
@propublica.org
management’s continued use of a flawed performance management system. Just this morning, a member of our Bargaining Committee was fired as a result of this system. Read more:
www.propublicaguild.org/updates/we-d...
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We Demand a Pro Worker ProPublica — ProPublica Guild
We took a collective lunch break Tuesday to protest ProPublica management’s continued use of a flawed performance management system — including denying steward representation in disciplinary meeti...
https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/we-demand-a-pro-worker-propublica
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Melissa Sanchez
about 2 months ago
I love working at ProPublica. I would love it more if it could guarantee us just cause protections. Go union.
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Reporting this story was mind boggling 😵💫 glad to see it make an impact!
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Andrea Suozzo
3 months ago
Here's how we did this analysis:
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-miscarriage-blood-transfusions-methodology
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The latest in our series:
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Andrea Suozzo
4 months ago
Three of my colleagues are being placed on PIPs today, and they will go into those meetings without union representation. We're not shutting up about this — having stewards in disciplinary meetings is a basic union right, and
@propublica.org
management should do the right thing.
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Andrea Suozzo
5 months ago
Really disappointed in
@propublica.org
management for this decision, which is out of step with both industry standards and ProPublica’s mission of accountability.
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Sophie Chou
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
6 months ago
Congratulations to
@propublica.org
, winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for “Life of the Mother,” a landmark series that showed how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths and has spurred important reforms.
nieman.harvard.edu/propublicas-...
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ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” wins the 2024 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism - Nieman Foundation
ProPublica’s skillfully reported series “Life of the Mother,” which reveals how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths, is the winner of the 2024 Worth Bingham Prize for Invest...
https://nieman.harvard.edu/propublicas-life-of-the-mother-wins-the-2024-worth-bingham-prize-for-investigative-journalism/
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Sophie Chou
ProPublica Guild
5 months ago
5/ We will continue to fight for steward representation for our colleagues and call on management to change its position on this vital issue.
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ProPublica Guild
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4/ Blocking stewards from these meetings is out of step with our industry and the principles of fairness and accountability the newsroom claims to uphold.
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ProPublica Guild
5 months ago
3/ Stewards are a critical part of a fair and transparent disciplinary process. They serve as witnesses, note-takers and advocates for our colleagues.
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Sophie Chou
ProPublica Guild
5 months ago
2/ Two of our unit members were just informed that they will be placed on Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) in meetings next week, the first step in a disciplinary process that often leads to termination at ProPublica. Management said stewards will not be permitted in those meetings.
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Hey this is extremely not cool, just in case you didn’t know.
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Andrea Suozzo
5 months ago
After Texas banned abortion, the rates of sepsis in 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations shot up by more than 50%,
@sophiechou.bsky.social
and I found. But that jump wasn't equal across the state; women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas:
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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The latest in our (Pulitzer-winning 😏) series: More stark findings on the rise in sepsis after Texas banned abortion
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Congrats to our amazing team! 🥰🥰🥰
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Sophie Chou
ProPublica Guild
5 months ago
What we are seeking is simple: ProPublica management must uphold its values in its own workplace.
www.propublicaguild.org/updates/prop...
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ProPublica Guild to management: Stop blocking stewards and resisting proposals for accountability — ProPublica Guild
ProPublica Guild members signed this letter to ProPublica's President Robin Sparkman and Editor in Chief Steve Engelberg on May 1st 2025. Dear Steve and Robin, Since we unionized in 2023, we have w...
https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/propublica-guild-open-letter-to-management-stop-blocking-stewards-and-resisting-proposals-for-accountability
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Sophie Chou
ProPublica Guild
5 months ago
Management has: - Denied stewards in performance meetings that could lead to discipline. - Rejected a standard approach to “just cause” and measures to improve transparency in the disciplinary process. - Blocked attempts to ensure jobs will not be replaced by AI.
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Sophie Chou
ProPublica Guild
5 months ago
Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to
@sengelberg.bsky.social
and
@robinsparkman.bsky.social
asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.
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Andrea Suozzo
7 months ago
When we set out to do this analysis, we hoped to build on an existing methodology to study severe complications in early pregnancy — but there wasn't one. So, in consultation with dozens of experts,
@sophiechou.bsky.social
, Lizzie Presser and I developed our own. Here's how we did it:
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology
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Andrea Suozzo
7 months ago
After Texas' 2021 abortion ban, the rate of sepsis for women hospitalized with pregnancy loss increased by more than 50%, our analysis found.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis
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ProPublica
7 months ago
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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Cassandra Jaramillo
7 months ago
New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share:
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-sepsis-maternal-mortality-analysis?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature
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