LIFEHACK: look up people you resent and compare your life to theirs

A new investigation from us and The Markup out today shows how 2019 auto insurance reforms did little to stop insurers from using where people live to set rates. outliermedia.org/detroit-car-in…

Michigan’s ‘fair and reasonable’ reforms allowed car insurers to charge more in Black neighborhoods outliermedia.org/michigan-car-i…

For the first time since I started working as a journalist more than a decade ago, I’m now a free agent. I’ve always felt so grateful and lucky to be a reporter and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Please get in touch if you’d like to work together.

UPDATE: The Department of Education is facing a lawsuit for failing to disclose records of its correspondence with Facebook after we found the Meta Pixel collecting sensitive data from students applying for financial aid. themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/202…

C'est moi themarshallproject.org/2024/08/13/aar…

Huge news for Jeremy Singer-Vine fans

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3XurUIl

Just announced: 3 amazing keynote speakers for C+J 👏🏽 Julia Angwin, Aaron Sankin, Alan Mislove. Join us Oct 25-27 in Boston at Northeastern. Registration live: idi.provost.northeastern.edu/event-director…

NEW: Hospitals around the US are using inaccurate pee-in-a-cup drug tests to report new mothers to child protective services, prompting investigations and even the removal of newborns from their families over false positive results. My latest: themarshallproject.org/2024/09/09/dru…

a collection of set theorists who are so excited that they cannot contain themselves

The Impact Award honors trailblazing individuals whose work in journalism and dedication to innovation exhibits a substantial impact on the industry. Congratulations to Sarah Alvarez & Candice Fortman, for their co-leadership of Outlier Media is on Bluesky. awards.journalists.org/entries/sarah-… #OJA24

Words are failing me right now. Every time I think about how meaningful this is to us, my heart feels so full that it could burst. I’ll have more to say soon. Until then: Thank you Online News Association for seeing us, seeing our work, and seeing the impact of our actionable journalism.

My brilliant The Marshall Project colleagues analyzed 350,000+ of Donald J. Trump's public statements and identified 13 major claims about immigration that are untrue or deeply misleading. Trump has repeated these false or misleading claims more than 500 times. themarshallproject.org/2024/10/21/fac…

We won a Pulitzer for public service for our coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection

Speaking before Trump at Madison Square Garden, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe says: “These Latinos love making babies, there’s no pulling out, they cum inside, just like they do to our country” Calls Puerto Rico “floating garbage island” Joke abt black people “carving watermelons”

Thanks to US Copyright Office, McDonald’s franchisees now have the right to repair their own ice cream machines. In March FTC filed a comment in support of this change, and we’ll keep using our tools to protect people’s right to repair. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”