Peter DiCampo

“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer” It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...

NEW: Local police did not open investigations into six of the 12 shootings by on-duty federal agents that have led to the deaths or injuries of citizens and immigrants since September, a ProPublica analysis found.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

Our visual journalists @cengizyar.com and @peterdicampo.bsky.social documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis. Here's what they saw 👇

What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

My @propublica.org colleague @peterdicampo.bsky.social & I reported from Minnesota last week, amid the federal immigration crackdown.

This is what we saw: www.propublica.org/article/minn...

Collage of ProPublica reporter Anna Barry-Jester (top left), photographer Peter DiCampo (top right) and reporter Brett Murphy holding up pieces of paper about an upcoming Reddit AMA on the downfall of USAID. The AMA is to be held in r/IAmA on Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. ET. The account answering questions is u/propublica_.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

On Thurs., Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. ET, we’ll be on Reddit taking your questions about the continued fallout of slashing aid for some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.

📌 Save the date:

LIVE NOW: Our reporters Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social and photographer @peterdicampo.bsky.social are taking your questions on Reddit about how Trump’s gutting of USAID exacerbated a cholera epidemic and created an American-made hunger crisis 👇

The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.

NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis.

Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation

NEW: Inside the Trump administration’s man-made hunger crisis in the world’s third largest refugee camp.

After the U.S. failed to fund the World Food Program in Kenya, we went to the Kakuma refugee camp. This is what we found:

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

This summer, Brett Murphy, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I went to South Sudan, where the U.S. had been supporting the response to a historic cholera outbreak in the world’s poorest country before pulling the plug.

We found shuttered clinics and dead bodies. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

No-brainer proposals met with strikethroughs. Great.

Psychiatric Hospitals Turn Away Patients Who Need Urgent Care. The Facilities Face Few Consequences. Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

EMTALA requires universal care for “emergency medical conditions” regardless of a person’s insurance status.

In the decades since its passage, some patients have died hours after failing to receive care they were legally entitled to.

By @emcahan.bsky.social

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Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...

We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help.

Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

People wearing union shirts stand outside a red carpet at the entrance of an event as people walk in.

People wearing union shirts and stickers smile and hand out ProPublica Guild buttons.

Five people sit at a table for an event wearing stickers and buttons supporting the ProPublica Guild.

Two people walking into an event wear stickers in support of the ProPublica Guild.

We ❤️ @ire.org! @propublica.org employees wore buttons & flyered at the IRE gala to rally support for our fight for a fair contract.

The future of investigative journalism depends on protecting the workers who make it possible.

You can help by signing our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Our New York members took their lunch outside today to demand that @propublica.org management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system ✊

We can’t produce fearless journalism @ProPublica without knowing our jobs are secure. That’s why I walked out for lunch today — to show support for Just Cause protections that apply to every @ProPublicaGuild worker, every time.

Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It. GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and c...

GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Georgia is the only state with such a mandate. Its experience shows that the federal effort could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans & cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Three colleagues are being placed on PIPs today, and
@propublica.org management has refused to allow stewards in those meetings. We're not shutting up about this — our colleagues deserve better and we're extremely disappointed in management for denying us this basic union right.

Thursday, May 8, 2025 ProPublica management continues to deny steward representation Yesterday morning, ProPublica management confirmed that it will deny steward representation to at least two more bargaining unit members it plans to discipline next week through the issuance of Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs). This is part of a larger pattern: management has denied steward representation in every meeting where members were placed on PIPs. The plans are the first step in a disciplinary process that often leads to termination. We have raised this issue repeatedly. Last Thursday, more than 70% of our unit sent an open letter to ProPublica leadership, urging them to stop resisting core union protections including steward access, just cause and accountability in the disciplinary process. This week, managers informed two employees that they would be placed on PIPs in meetings next week. Shortly afterward, ProPublica’s general counsel told Guild leadership that stewards will not be allowed in those meetings. ProPublica’s disciplinary process remains opaque, inconsistently applied and shielded from scrutiny. Blocking stewards from these meetings is out of step with our industry and the principles of fairness and accountability the newsroom claims to uphold.

1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇

Dear Steve and Robin, Since we unionized in 2023, we have worked hard to reach a contract that honors ProPublica's mission. In order to fulfill that vision, our values of fairness, transparency and accountability must apply not only to our reporting but also to our workplace. Our proposals have sought basic contractual rights that align with those values and exist at many other unionized newsrooms. Instead of working with us to codify those rights, you have struck through many of our proposals, called for broad carve outs and delayed discussion of key provisions such as protections against layoffs and overwork. Those tactics are not in line with the ProPublica you say you want to build. In recent months: ● You have refused to allow stewards in performance meetings that could lead to discipline. ● You have resisted attempts to reform our disciplinary system, rejecting a standard approach to just cause and measures to improve transparency and clarity. ● You rejected our proposal that would ensure our jobs will not be replaced by artificial intelligence. What we are seeking is simple: ProPublica management must uphold its values in its own workplace. We expect that your proposals going forward will reflect these shared values. Sincerely, ProPublica Guild

Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to @sengelberg.bsky.social and @robinsparkman.bsky.social asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.

Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You. We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.

We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper. Here's how you can reach us.

Madison and Nashville School Shooters Appear to Have Crossed Paths in Online Extremist Communities A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and en...

A 15-year-old opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School.

A month later, a 17-year-old killed a classmate at Antioch High School.

According to researchers, both were active in the same online networks that glorify mass shooters.

By @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social, w/ @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social

Madison and Nashville School Shooters Appear to Have Crossed Paths in Online Extremist Communities A month after a student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School, another killed a classmate at Antioch High School. Both were active in an internet subculture that glorifies mass shooters and en...

This is really scary. “This network is best described as an online subculture that celebrates violent attacks and radicalizes young people into committing violence,” said a violence prevention researcher. @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social

Incredible @adn.com front page for @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social story about trial delays in Alaska. Read it here: projects.propublica.org/alaska-sex-a...

In today's story, @lucaswaldron.bsky.social + @zisiga.bsky.social created a timeline of the mind-numbing decade of delays in a single case. A tracker ticks the delays as you scroll.

The most recent hearing was held on Dec. 16, 2024, when Judge Peterson set a trial date for June 2025.

A scene at Delaney Park in Anchorage, Alaska, shows (in overlapping comic book style panels) a crowd of people, an overview of the park, a man looking at a woman, a woman lying on the ground, and a hand holding a jug.

A series of overlapping comic book panels shows a gavel slowly banging down, a courtroom scene, a case file, and people wringing their hands or holding their heads in a sign of frustration.

Tense, compelling illustrations by @nicolerifkin.bsky.social. In two stories this week, @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social chronicles shocking delays in the AK justice system as they take years to send sexual assault cases to trial.
www.propublica.org/article/anch...
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🚨😷 Chronically ill/disabled/long covid-havers and #pwME: I want to hear your stories. Have you been denied care or adequate infection control protection while getting care? Are you a worker denied the ability to protect yourself with an N95? What barriers have you faced to equal treatment?

A Memorial for the Children Lost to Stillbirth Each day in the U.S., about 60 babies are stillborn. Here, families share their child’s name and their lasting legacy.

This film was inspired by the groundbreaking reporting of Duaa Eldeib (@deldeib.bsky.social).

Her series, "Stillbirths," was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. It includes a memorial for children lost to stillbirths: propub.li/49wf0OI

Sign Up to Screen Our New Documentary About Stillbirths “Before a Breath” gives voice to parents who have lost children to stillbirth. Screenings for the film will roll out across the country in early 2025. Here’s how you can get involved to help spread the word.

More than 20,000 pregnancies in the United States end in stillbirth each year. At least 1 in 4 are likely preventable.

Our new documentary, “Before a Breath,” gives voice to parents who have lost children to stillbirth. Here’s a sneak peek.

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