The Breakthrough show

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:

 Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Charity Claims | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:44

Podcast: Donald 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.

 Inside an International Court of Money and Mystery | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:56

Podcast: BuzzFeed’s Chris Hamby tells us how he dug into the murky world of global dispute resolution court.

 Hacking the American College Application Process | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:36

Podcast: How a team of reporters uncovered a culture of cheating among East Asian college prep companies

 Uncovering a $1 Billion Deal to Detain Unauthorized Immigrants | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:58

Podcast: Chico Harlan discusses his investigation into private immigrant detention centers.

 When USA Gymnastics Turned a Blind Eye to Sexual Abuse | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:30:48

When USA Gymnastics Turned a Blind Eye to Sexual Abuse

 Heresy: A Reporter Investigates Evidence That Jesus Had a Wife | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:39:54

Podcast: How journalist Ariel Sabar tied a former pornographer to an alleged forgery scheme that rocked the highest echelons of biblical scholarship.

 An Overdue Examination of Detroit’s Forgotten Rape Kits | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:09

Podcast: Anna Clark speaks about her investigation for Elle Magazine into Detroit’s backlog of rape kits.

 Doctors in Danger: How the Assad Regime is Targeting Syrian Physicians | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:41

Podcast: Ben Taub of the New Yorker describes the shadow network of doctors that has emerged out of the Syrian conflict.

 Rough Passage: Reporters Find Abuse, Neglect and Death Aboard Private Prison Vans | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:27:13

Podcast: Eli Hager and Alysia Santo of the Marshall Project discuss their many months investigating the prison van industry.

 How New Jersey Has Embraced ‘State-Sanctioned Loan-Sharking’ to Students | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:31

Podcast: ProPublica’s Annie Waldman talks about what makes New Jersey’s student loans so onerous.

 From Captive to Captor: A Journalist’s Journey from Prisoner to Prison Guard | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:08

Podcast: Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer goes undercover as a prison guard in Louisiana and finds a dark truth within himself.

 Why Liberal New York City’s Schools Are Among the Nation’s Most Segregated | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:47

Podcast: Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times Magazine talks about her piece on sending her young daughter to a segregated school.

 How a Shootout on a Guatemalan Highway Opened Window to Corruption | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:08

Podcast: Our own Sebastian Rotella tells us about the challenges of reporting on corruption in violent and chaotic Guatemala.

 Why Are Hate Crime Statistics So Poorly Tracked? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:17

Podcast: Associated Press reporter Christina Cassidy tells us how she investigated the underreporting of hate crime statistics and what that means for victims.

 How the NY/NJ Port Authority Misspent Millions in Federal Money Meant to Cut Air Pollution | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:32:15

Podcast: Six years ago, the two-state agency pledged to reduce emissions from trucks and accepted $35 million in federal dollars to do it. Today, it has little to show for the money it spent. Writer Max Rivlin-Nadler takes ProPublica’s Joaquin Sapien inside his Village Voice investigation.

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