The Breakthrough
Summary: The ProPublica Podcast is a weekly program featuring interviews with reporters and information about the latest investigations published by ProPublica.org. Produced by the nonprofit newsroom, the podcast will take listeners behind the scenes of their reporting to show how they obtained the story, what inspired the report and what’s the potential impact that could result from the investigation.
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Podcasts:
Seth Freed Wessler talks about state laws, based on stigma and outdated science, that actually harm the families they’re meant to protect.
As Obama’s proxy, former Treasury Secretary Geithner shows us how an unwillingness to make sweeping change cost the administration a chance to reshape the financial landscape.
ProPublica reporter Lois Beckett examines how gun violence research has become the “political third rail” – leaving us in the dark on some of the most basic facts about gun injuries in America.
Reporter David Epstein on the Tyson Gay case, which shows investigators expanding their sights as drug tests prove not to be the cure-all.
As the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board approaches, ProPublica’s Nikole Hannah-Jones details how schools are quietly resegregating, not just in the South but across the country.
Reporter Charles Ornstein talks with David Goldhill, author of "Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong," about excess, poor oversight, and how new data may help spur change.
The Heartbleed bug highlights the importance of investing in cybersecurity encryption, and taking password security seriously.
People "opposed" to return-free tax filing are speaking out with letters and op-eds from industry players, and some of them don't even know it.
Beat reporting meets high-tech publishing in a new book exploring the science of everyday mistakes that become grave errors in the criminal justice system. Joaquin Sapien hosts.
Kim Barker and Theo Meyer discuss the increasingly shadowy world of political spending, the power of the Koch brothers’ network, and what to expect in midterm races.
With Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the news, Steve Engelberg and Joe Sexton discuss the difficulties of reporting on the ever-shifting landscape of plane crashes.
The Pentagon spends roughly $100 million a year to identify service members “missing in action” from World War II and other conflicts, but the effort has proven incredibly slow and inefficient, ProPublica’s Megan McCloskey found.
Universities have become increasingly strategic about how they use their financial aid, but who they’re awarding money to and for what remains unclear. Marian Wang and Eric Umansky discuss the information imbalance at the center of the admissions and financial-aid process.
ProPublica’s Charles Ornstein and Steve Engelberg discuss how a peculiar ad for the da Vinci robot offers a glimpse into the hardball world of marketing medical devices.
ProPublica's David Epstein and Steve Engelberg discuss how a growing number of premier athletes are turning to questionable health practitioners in a race to stay on top.
