ProPublica est une rédaction américaine indépendante dédiée au journalisme d'investigation. Créé en 2008 et soutenu financièrement par une fondation à but non-lucratif, ProPublica travaille sur des
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enquêtes “dans l'intérêt du public (...), visant à illustrer l'exploitation des faibles par les forts, et les faillites de ceux qui détiennent le pouvoir à honorer la confiance placée en eux.” Mediapart a décidé de reproduire certains articles de ProPublica, directement en anglais, à titre expérimental.
The US government isn’t allowed to wiretap American citizens without a warrant from a judge. But there are plenty of legal ways for law enforcement, from the local sheriff to the FBI, to snoop on the digital trails created every day, explains US investigative website ProPublica in this step-by-step guide to how they do it.
US investigative website ProPublica takes a look beyond the US presidential election candidates' rhetoric — or lack of it — to find out what their positions on climate change really are.
Following the killing on September 11th of US ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other embassy officials, at the start of a wave of violent protests in the Muslim world against an anti-Islam film made in the US, investigative news and features website ProPublica has compiled a series of links to in-depth reporting of the assassinations, US-Libya relations post-Gaddafi and about the video at the centre of the troubles.
As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. The more than $40 billion of deals helped fuel the crash of 2008. Now, recently collected emails from bankers and a Magnetar executive involved in some of the deals appear to shed new light on how they did it.
In just a few years, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands created a gambling empire in Macau that made him one of the world’s richest men. Now, Sheldon Adelson’s business methods are under expanding scrutiny by federal and Nevada investigators. ProPublica lifts the lid on the investigation into the Republican Party's largest donor for its 2012 campaign.
US corporate giants have outsourced the dangerous work of building and maintaining mobile phone communications towers to tiny subcontracting companies. Over the last nine years, nearly 100 workers have died, 50 of them on cell sites. Yet cell phone carriers’ connection to tower climbing deaths has remained invisible. ProPublica (1) and PBS investigate how the money-spinning industry turns its back on the deadly working conditions of men earning $10 an hour.
What was made can be unmade. JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo may have venerable names, but they and the pseudo-venerable Citigroup and Bank of America are all products of countless mergers and agglomerations. There is no rule of markets that requires a financial system dominated by four cobbled-together, lumbering behemoths, writes ProPublica's Jesse Eisingerin.
A number of key members of the family which controlled The Wall Street Journal say they would not have agreed to sell the prestigious daily to Rupert Murdoch if they had been aware of News International's conduct in the phone-hacking scandal at the time of the deal, writes Richard Tofel in this article co-published by ProPublica and The Guardian.
