ProPublica: Podcast

Podcast: ProPublica and the IRS Scandal

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-05-20T12:59:47-05:00

ProPublica editor-in-chief Steve Engelberg sat down with Kim Barker to talk about the burgeoning IRS scandal and ProPublica’s role in it.

Podcast: What Should the FDA Do When Drug Tests Are Tainted?

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-04-16T10:41:03-05:00

Rob Garver and Charles Seife join the podcast to discuss their recent story of how the Food and Drug Administration found a lab in Houston, Texas, that had provided the agency with drug tests tainted by "egregious" research misconduct.

Podcast: When Prosecutors Mishandle Cases, Everyone Pays…Except For Them

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-04-09T15:16:40-05:00

Prosecutorial misconduct can have devastating consequences for defendants and their families, but the prosecutors themselves rarely receive any disciplinary action. Steve Engelberg and Joaquin Sapien discuss ProPublica's latest investigation into this flawed and tragic system.

Podcast: Is Intuit Making It Harder to Do Your Taxes?

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-04-01T14:52:52-05:00

Free, simple tax returns are already a reality in much of Europe. Why hasn’t the U.S. adopted this system?

Podcast: The Facts Behind the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Case

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-03-25T16:32:35-05:00

Steve Engelberg and Nikole Hannah-Jones discuss the Fisher v. University of Texas case currently before the Supreme Court and how the agenda is much broader than the use of race in college admissions.

MuckReads Podcast: Inside Washington Rule-Making, AKA ‘The Seventh Circle of Bureaucratic Hell’

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-03-19T10:56:54-05:00

The cover story in the current issue of the Washington Monthly by Haley Sweetland Edwards delves into what sounds like a dull subject — the federal “rule-making” process — and manages to make it exciting.

Podcast: Steve Brill on Healthcare and the Media in America

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-03-12T13:00:30-05:00

Podcast: ProPublica Explores Patient Safety

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-02-11T15:58:00-05:00

ProPublica's Marshall Allen, Olga Pierce and Blair Hickman walk us through their ongoing series on patient safety, and how it's essentially inverted the investigative process by incorporating community and crowdsourcing efforts long before they've published a single traditional story.

Manti Te’o Was Involved in Three Hoaxes: MuckReads Podcast

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-01-28T13:51:09-05:00

ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen interviews Deadspin's Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey about breaking the story of the three hoaxes involving college football player Manti Te'o.

Podcast: How the Wal-Mart Bribery in Mexico Investigation Came Together

podcast@propublica.org (ProPublica) — 2013-01-02T11:31:17-05:00

For our first MuckReads podcast of 2013, we invited New York Times reporter David Barstow to talk to our editor Steve Engelberg about his investigation into how Wal-Mart used bribery to expand their business operations in Mexico.