ProPublica’s Year in (Mostly) Visual Journalism
ProPublica’s Year in (Mostly) Visual Journalism
At ProPublica, the stories we report are told not just with words, but also with data, design, photography, illustration, audio, video and more. 2018 marked ProPublica’s 10th year pairing fearless investigative journalism with engaging and inventive presentations. As we head into our second decade, here’s a quick look back at some remarkable work from the year that was.
Finding Out What Happened to All the Jobs Trump Promised
Since the election, President Donald Trump has made numerous claims about companies adding or saving American jobs thanks to his intervention. We went back to see what’s become of them.
Design Process and Free Tools
In January, we asked readers to help us re-conceive and redesign an interactive database that tracks Congress. Then we reported back on how the process worked.
We also open-sourced our tool for building website and story layouts for desktop and mobile devices, so more newsrooms can benefit from what we learned along the way.
Theater-Journalism Workshops
Collaborations take many shapes and sizes. This year, ProPublica Illinois teamed up with Free Street Theater for a six-month initiative to engage with communities around the state through theater-journalism workshops.
Tracking White House Staff, Cabinet Members and Political Appointees
We launched “Trump Town,” a database of executive branch staffers. Since then, we’ve added over 200 entries, all searchable by name, former employer and agency — and downloadable on ProPublica’s Data Store.
Playing the Waiting Game
The U.S. is supposed to be a haven for people fleeing persecution. But asylum-seekers face years of uncertainty when they arrive. This unique interactive game puts readers in the shoes of those navigating the system.
Audio Documentary
ProPublica and Audible turned the gripping saga of a Mexican massacre touched off by U.S. drug agents into a five part audio documentary, based on the original reporting of Ginger Thompson.
Witnessing a Death in Slow Motion
James “Lee” Lewis waited years for a new heart, and the call from the hospital finally came on the first day of 2018. But by the time Lee left the operating room, the 52-year-old pipefitter was in worse shape than when he entered.
As part of our ongoing investigation into how a once-storied heart transplant program has had some of the worst outcomes in the country, we told the story of Lewis’ final days by combining original reporting with family Facebook posts and audio interviews.
Meeting the People Affected by Our Reporting
In June, we co-hosted an event with 90.7 WMFE and the Orlando Public Library to discuss the impact of PTSD on first responders, and we built a gallery to showcase the firsthand experiences of emergency workers.
June was also ProPublica’s 10th anniversary. To celebrate the start of our second decade, we profiled subjects who have been positively impacted by our reporting over our first 10 years.
Experiencing the Impact of “Zero Tolerance”
One of our biggest multimedia stories of the year was actually a simple audio clip. Recorded inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, it captured the sound of Central American children separated from their parents by immigration authorities at the border. And we stayed on the story through the rest of the year, with work that included:
An interactive map and database identifying immigrant children’s shelters throughout the country.
A video with our partners at Vox that took a closer look at the impact of the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
Exploring the journey of 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid, one the children heard in the original audio clip, including life after her eventual reunification with her mother.
Examining Inequality in Our Schools
Every year, the U.S. Department of Education investigates thousands of school districts and colleges around the country for civil rights violations. We made the status of all of the civil rights cases that have been resolved during the past three years, as well as pending investigations, publicly available for the first time.
We also built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline, letting readers look up more than 96,000 individual public and charter schools and 17,000 districts to see how they compare with their counterparts.
Paying the President
Every president since Jimmy Carter has sold his companies or moved assets into blind trusts or broadly held investments — until now. Trump never did this, and he stands to gain personally when groups pay his companies. Our interactive graphic tracks the incoming money we’ve tallied so far.
“We Will Keep on Fighting for Him.”
ProPublica Illinois reported that a University of Illinois at Chicago psychiatrist, who oversaw several federally funded studies, violated research rules, failed to alert parents of risks and falsified data to cover up misconduct.
Digging deeper, we worked with the family of one 10-year-old research subject to tell the story from a patient’s point of view, weaving personal journal entries together with original reporting and creating an intimate view of their journey.
Documenting Hate With Video
In partnership with Frontline, we reported on how the ranks of a notorious hate group include active-duty military.
“New American Nazis,” our new documentary with Frontline, aired in November.
Members of the Rise Above Movement, a violent white supremacist group, were identified in our videos and reporting, and later indicted on riot charges for engaging in violent assaults during the infamous “Unite the Right” rally in the summer of 2017.
Inspecting the Inspectors
Is publicly subsidized housing decent, safe and sanitary? Working with Local Reporting Network partner The Southern Illinoisan, we spent the year reporting on the answer to that question.
We found that U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development inspections often don’t match the reality of the living conditions. So we built an app to let readers look up housing complex scores near them.
Photographer William Widmer documented the conditions we found.
Living Apart and Coming Undone
Under a landmark settlement, an ambitious housing program promised a better life for mentally ill New Yorkers. But some of the most vulnerable slip through the cracks. Haunting photos by George Etheredge help capture the subjects of Joaquin Sapien’s reporting.
And stay tuned for our documentary, in partnership with Frontline, coming in 2019.
Setting a Ticket Trap
Parking, traffic camera and vehicle tickets generate millions of dollars in desperately needed cash each year for Chicago. But for the working poor, and particularly for African Americans, paying for tickets can be difficult — opening the door to more fines and fees, and spiraling debt. To go along with a yearlong reporting effort, we created an interactive database containing more than 54 million tickets to examine how Chicago’s reliance on ticketing for revenue affects motorists across the city.
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David Sleight became ProPublica’s first design director in May of 2014. In 2016, Sleight was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and was the recipient of a Communication Award from the National Academies for his work on ProPublica’s “Killing the Colorado” series. He has also directed editorial projects recognized by the Society for News Design, American Illustration, American Photography, and the Society of Illustrators.
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