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Recent episodes include "Conservative Activists Discuss Providing Files to DOJ" (9 February 2026, 2 minutes), "The Breakthrough: How Journalists in the Virgin Islands Covered the Disaster Happening to Them" (9 November 2017, 18 minutes), and "The Breakthrough: Curiosity drove her to call 1,000 people" (19 October 2017, 28 minutes).
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Recent episodes
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The Breakthrough: How Journalists in the Virgin Islands Covered the Disaster Happening to Them
Nov 9, 201718 minHurricanes Irma and Maria slammed the Virgin Islands within days of each other, leaving almost everyone without power, internet or phones. Still, The Virgin Islands Daily News pressed on.
Oct 19, 201728 minBuzzfeed’s Rosalind Adams set out to learn why America’s largest psychiatric hospital chain was under investigation. Source by source, she built a case that Universal Health Services was locking up people for profit.
Sep 9, 201625 minDonald Trump says he has personally donated millions to charity in recent years. Rather than debunking his claims, Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold set out to prove them true – and still hasn’t been able to.
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Reporting Lessons From the Front Lines
Jan 4, 201630 minNew York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski talks about the most memorable moments from his career, including his work on the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal and his recent run-in with presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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Dec 23, 201516 minProPublica senior editor Joseph Sexton and The Marshall Project editor-in-chief Bill Keller talk about putting aside professional rivalry in service of an “unbelievable” story.
Dec 21, 201516 minProPublica senior reporter Ginger Thompson speaks with federal public defender Julia Gatto on how alleged links between drug trafficking and terrorism have a way of falling apart in court.
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Jason Leopold vs. the United States
Dec 8, 20151h 22mIn a special live ProPublica podcast, VICE News reporter Jason Leopold shares tips for prying loose classified government documents using the Freedom of Information Act.
Nov 30, 201512 minKhoi Vinh, principal designer at Adobe and formerly of The New York Times, talks with ProPublica’s design director, David Sleight, about design’s role in the newsroom and beyond.
Nov 23, 201512 minBoston Globe reporters Jenn Abelson and Liz Kowalczyk talk to ProPublica’s Marshall Allen about their investigation into the hospital practice of booking two surgeries at the same time.
Nov 16, 201517 minProPublica reporter Michael Grabell talks to Dave DeSario, executive producer of a new documentary about safety hazards in the rapidly growing world of temp work.
Nov 9, 201519 minPodcast: Tampa Bay Times reporters Michael LaForgia and Adam Playford talk to ProPublica editor Eric Umansky about school resegregation. More here: http://propub.ca/1QpZu9e
Nov 2, 201516 minThe storied Boston Globe Spotlight team talks with ProPublica editor-in-chief Stephen Engelberg about their groundbreaking investigation of the Catholic Church and being portrayed on the big screen.
Oct 26, 201516 minRev. Starsky Wilson, co-chair of the Ferguson Commission, talks to ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel about his work to reform racial disparities in debt collection and other systems.
Oct 19, 201519 minThe Intercept reporters Cora Currier and Ryan Deveraux talk with ProPublica’s Eric Umansky about their big scoop on drone strikes.
Oct 12, 201515 minNew York Times reporter Anemona Hartocollis shares with ProPublica editor Eric Umansky her experience on the front lines of the European refugee crisis.
Oct 5, 201515 minNew Yorker staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman talks with ProPublica editor Joe Sexton about her reporting on a teenager who, after spending three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime, took his own life.
Sep 28, 201516 minA closer look inside ProPublica’s interactive database, guided by reporters and developers Sisi Wei and Annie Waldman.
Sep 21, 201516 minProPublica reporters discuss news suggesting that national homicide rates are on the rise – and debunk dubious theories that have been offered to explain them.
Sep 14, 201517 minProPublica senior reporter Sebastian Rotella gives context behind the headlines on the refugee crisis gripping Europe.
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Bill Keller
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Jason Leopold
Freedom of Information Act expert, Bloomberg News
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Marshall Allen
Author of Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win, Sun Ra Arkestra
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Brad Smith
dean of Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine Arizona, Midwestern University’s College of Dental Medicine
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