1/ ProPublica is excited to launch a partnership with @jourmentors.
Together, we’ll provide journalists attending affinity conferences (@NAHJ, @NABJ & @aaja) the chance to schedule mentorship chats with ProPublica staff.
She can coach on investigative reporting - including environment, policy and legal affairs reporting -- as well as career pathway development and hiring processes.
We also have,
4/ @MaxBlau representing our South bureau. He can offer advice on reporting in the sciences, freelancing & writing longform narratives.
On that front, we also have @lizweil, ready to coach you on long form stories.
Want more insight into environmental reporting?
5/ Connect with @lisalsong, who is open to speaking about covering the environment and science more generally, as well as managing burnout.
She can also talk through working with different editors, a skill that...
Schedule a time with @mayatmiller or @Ariana_Tobin, who can also give you insight into career development and managing a team.
9/ From our Midwest bureau, we have @deldeib who can help you through conducting sensitive interviews and adapting an investigative mindset.
You can also connect with @louisekiernan, who can talk what it takes to coach reporters and manage newsroom teams.
10/ On the visuals front, you can talk to @AndreaWise_ who can share tips on pitching your visual stories to outlets or transitioning from photography to editing.
Otherwise, @KatieCampbell is around to discuss video journalism & strategies for lifelong skill development.
11/ Again, you can browse through all of our participating staff member bios and sign up for a slot with them here: journalismmentors.com/propublica-men…
We look forward to connecting with more reporters as conference season kicks off.
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.@ProPublica has obtained IRS records for thousands of America's wealthiest people.
To understand how some ultrarich stay that way without paying much in taxes, familiarize yourself with a strategy known as "Buy, Borrow, Die." (THREAD)
2/ Most people need an income to pay for things like food and shelter.
The richest don't.
They can just live on borrowed cash.
3/ Some of the ultra-wealthy BUY assets, build companies, or inherit fortunes.
As long as they don't sell these assets, they owe no taxes on them.
.@ProPublica has obtained IRS data on thousands of America’s wealthiest people, providing an unprecedented look inside the finances of titans like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates & Mark Zuckerberg. (Thread)
2/ The records show not just the income and taxes paid by these multibillionaires, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.
3/ What's revealed demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: That everyone pays their fair share & the richest pay the most. propublica.org/article/the-se…
Spend a year, starting in Sept. 2021, working on a local accountability project that is important to your community.
3/ Here’s what we’ll provide:
- Salary coverage plus benefits allowance.
- Support and guidance from one of our senior editors.
- Access to our speciality teams, including data, research, design, engagement and audience.
A grand jury has reportedly been empaneled in the NYC probe of Trump Org’s potentially criminal business practices.
We previously detailed how Trump’s businesses told different stories to tax officials and lenders about key Manhattan buildings. (THREAD)
2/ It began in Oct. 2019 when we looked at never-before-seen tax documents showing that the numbers Trump Org gave to lenders about its buildings didn't always match what it told city tax officials: propublica.org/article/trump-…
3/ For instance, Trump Org told a lender that it took in twice as much rent from one building in 2017 as it reported to tax authorities during the same year. It also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of its signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street.
Remember the big push to vaccinate people with preexisting conditions?
A @ProPublica analysis of CDC data shows how that faltered big time.
Vaccination rates are generally much lower in counties w/ high rates of comorbidities than in healthier (usually wealthier) ones 👇👇
2/ As of 4/25, counties with high levels of chronic illnesses had, on average, immunized 57% of seniors, compared to 65% of seniors in counties with the lowest comorbidity risk.
3/ Counties with the highest health risk were significantly less likely than healthier counties to have vaccinated a large majority of their older residents.
Columnist @errollouis pleaded today to “watch the troubling video of the final moments of Kawaski Trawick’s life,” which is “every bit as sad and outrageous” as the videos of Eric Garner or George Floyd.
2/ Two years ago, an NYPD officer killed Trawick in his own apartment, less than two minutes after arriving.
Trawick had been holding a bread knife & a stick. The officer’s own (Black and more experienced) partner told him, “No, no, don’t don’t.”
3/ We published video showing it all:
•Trawick just standing in his own apt
•Officer fires Taser w/o warning
•His partner repeatedly tries to stop him
•Officer shoots 3x, pauses, shoots again
•Trawick dies almost instantly