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Drug WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Voice of America won a National Press Club Journalism Award for coverage of the Trump administration's attempts to redirect and censor VOA coverage.
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- WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Voice of America won a National Press Club Journalism Award for coverage of the Trump administration's attempts to redirect and censor VOA coverage.
- ProPublica won awards for consumer news and political news.
- Those news outlets were just two among a host of winners for outstanding coverage of events in 2020.
- VOA won the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism-broadcast award for its coverage of the pressure on itself - a difficult assignment.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
ProPublica had more than 43,000 donors in 2020, while recording record traffic to its content, and record revenues.
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- ProPublica had more than 43,000 donors in 2020, while recording record traffic to its content, and record revenues.
- The same award in 2020, to the Anchorage Daily News, was also for a series published in partnership with ProPublica.
- At the same time, the Board of Directors joins me in thanking Dick Tofel for his service and dedication to the mission of ProPublica.
- There will be a successor, but it's hard to imagine any single person replacing everything Dick does for ProPublica.''
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
ProPublica Illinois, which since 2017 has published investigative journalism on key issues in Illinois, will be transformed into a unit covering a broader swath of the Midwest.
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- ProPublica Illinois, which since 2017 has published investigative journalism on key issues in Illinois, will be transformed into a unit covering a broader swath of the Midwest.
- In addition to the regional reporting hubs, ProPublica is launching a Distinguished Fellows program to support proven investigative journalists.
- ProPublica expects to add nearly 30 new positions across the United States, including editors and reporters, news applications developers, researchers and other staff.
- Three-year grants to six ProPublica Distinguished Fellows, proven investigative reporters working at local news organizations, who will co-publish their reporting with ProPublica.
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Monday, December 10, 2018
The investigation uncovered a major flaw in the FBI's new system for tracking crime reports, the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
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- The investigation uncovered a major flaw in the FBI's new system for tracking crime reports, the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
- The Prince William County Police Department in Virginia, for example, showed no unfounded cases in the government's updated system in 2016.
- According to Stephen Fischer, spokesperson for the FBI, this decision was made "...because of the importance of the 'unfounded data' issue" disclosed in the investigation.
- Typically, major changes to FBI rules go through lengthy processes just to get on the agenda for consideration.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Uptime.com's specialized website alert monitoring tool tracked official election-related websites to detect and document voting impediments and disruptions from website outages, hackingand other issues.
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- Uptime.com's specialized website alert monitoring tool tracked official election-related websites to detect and document voting impediments and disruptions from website outages, hackingand other issues.
- ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates and exposes abuses of power by the government, businesses, and other institutions.
- "It was gratifying to participate in the Electionland initiative and help ProPublica detect threats to voter information and access particularly at this crucial moment in our country's history."
- Co-founded by seasoned B2B software entrepreneurs, Uptime.com was ranked by TechRadar as a top 5 best website monitoring service.
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Monday, November 12, 2018
In 2016 in Austin, Texas, for example, police records show that 51 percent of rape cases were cleared.
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- In 2016 in Austin, Texas, for example, police records show that 51 percent of rape cases were cleared.
- The FBI allows police departments to clear a case two ways: By making an arrest, or by what is called "exceptional means."
- In one large county, despite gathering a trove of evidence against a suspected child sex predator, police exceptionally cleared the case.
- The department's police chief has already agreed to change some unfounded cases to unsolved rapes, with more reclassifications possible.
