Kevin Uhrmacher
@kevinuhrm.bsky.social
ProPublica deputy news apps editor
Here's @shaw.al on the "increasingly Kafkaesque process" of requesting records through FOIA right now www.propublica.org/article/foia...
Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? Anyone?
Asking the federal government for public records didn’t always feel like a shell game. But bounced emails and broken portals seem like the new normal.
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My latest story has some intrigue. FCC finally released Chairman Brendan Carr’s financial report for 2025 late Friday. The report states Paramount gave him tickets to the gala worth $12,390. But he and his wife sat in skybox seats that sold for $125,000 a piece. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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I just published an update to our 527 Explorer of political nonprofits. We added over 500k new records since our last update in June. It's an election year, meaning I will be updating this every month until the election. Happy Friday! projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals
Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...
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401K plans often route you on the DL to high-cost, low-return funds that are good mainly for the firms pushing them. So ya know what we're gonna go: Expose 'em. And we're gonna do it *with you.* Join along: www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Have a 401(k)? Help ProPublica Investigate What’s Really Happening to Your Money.
Some retirement plans are stuck in investments with bloated fees and costly add-ons. Help ProPublica investigate the financial products companies are pushing and what they’re charging workers.
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one of my vacation traditions is i always stop for a midday ice cream break and i just want to shoutout to hedonist artisan ice cream in rochester which had an amazing baklava ice cream when i was there. i will take your ice cream recommendations for buffalo if you have them.
ICYMI @readfrontier.bsky.social @nickbowlin.bsky.social + @propublica.org @shaw.al identified at least 114 oil field wastewater injection wells across Oklahoma that are located within a half-mile of a public water supply well. Oklahomans should check the map here www.propublica.org/article/enid...
To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk
Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one ...
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Oklahoma residents: We identified at least 114 oil field waste injection sites located within a half-mile of a public water well. Is your community impacted? Check out our map: https://propub.li/446vLhs
Even though injection wells are banned within a half-mile of public water wells in Oklahoma, we found 114 of them across the state, within public water districts more than 300k people rely on.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.NEW: Oil companies are blasting millions of gallons of toxic waste underground each year — less than a half-mile from Enid, Oklahoma’s water wells. But to protect their city, officials must appeal to the state agency that created the problem. With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Got tired of only hearing about Rep. Tom Kean Jr.'s missed votes, so I made a tracker for all House members using the Congress.gov API. It's not Represent, just Present: thescoop.org/present/
Present — House Vote Tracker
Track how long it's been since your U.S. House representative cast a roll call vote.
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NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇
He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildfires, while still owning stock in the company. @abestreep.bsky.social
A U.S. Senator Pushed to Cut Firefighting Aircraft Inspections the Same Month His Former Company Failed One
Before entering politics, Tim Sheehy ran an aerial firefighting company, Bridger Aerospace. In the Senate, he has sought to cut regulations and expand the government’s use of private aircraft on wildf...
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Stubbornly relevant (Published 2024): Procedures in some states can create a false impression that Republicans are winning since the last ballots to be counted tend to lean Democratic. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How Trump used the ‘red mirage’ in vote counting to deny his 2020 loss
As Trump saw early leads dwindle in some states, he called for officials to stop counting votes and claimed the remaining uncounted ballots were fraudulent.
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@natlash.bsky.social went digging in the genetic code of America’s measles outbreaks. Here's what he found, with @sheinvestigates.bsky.social projects.propublica.org/measles-outb...
What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks — ProPublica
The U.S. eliminated measles a quarter century ago, but to keep its “measles-free” designation, officials will have to make a strong case that measles is not continuously spreading within its borders. ...
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A new episode of "Paper Trail" is LIVE — this one is the backstory of @ctmirror.org's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into a towing industry scandal with an assist from @propublica.org's Local Reporting Network. I attempt a joke at the top. Be nice about it: www.propublica.org/podcast/conn...
How to Lose a Car in 15 Days
When two local reporters heard drivers were having their cars towed and then sold in as little as two weeks, they teamed up with ProPublica to investigate.
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Joining this esteemed cohort for @propublica.org's 2026 Investigative Editor Training. Looking forward to learning with — and from — these impressive journalists! propublica.org/article/prop...
ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training
The cohort will receive intensive training and mentorship from ProPublica editors and staff.
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@katiperry.bsky.social is an excellent journalist, skilled developer and delightful colleague and I can't wait to follow her work in this role! Great hire www.nytco.com/press/graphi...
Graphics’ New Hire With Focus on Polling and Elections | The New York Times Company
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🎧 It's launch day! 🚀 Our VERY FIRST EPISODE of "Paper Trail" is now live. You can listen at the link below or subscribe in all the normal podcast places: www.propublica.org/podcast/what...
What the FDA Won’t Tell You About Your Medications
For years, the FDA said generics are just as safe as brand-name medications. ProPublica found that this isn’t always true.
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HUGE NEWS: ProPublica is launching a new investigative reporting hub in California, our sixth regional unit. Read more 👇
ProPublica to Launch Investigative Reporting Hub in California
The new team will bring accountability journalism to the nation’s largest state as part of a broader expansion.
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Please read this.
Duaa Eldeib@deldeib.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...
“At the morgue, the babies were brought in with their diapers and blankets and with their hospital ID bracelets still wrapped around their tiny ankles. The pathologists’ findings were like those you would typically see in ailing adults, not newborns.” @deldeib.bsky.social
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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NEW: You may have noticed things look a little different on our website and social media. We’ve updated our logo and our typefaces, and we made improvements to the design and functionality of our homepage and how we present our work. Here’s why.
A New Look for ProPublica
We’ve updated our logo, typefaces and homepage design. Here’s what changed and why.
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A special shoutout to the team behind @propublica.org's Rx Inspector, a part of this year's Pulitzer finalist entry for investigative reporting. Well done @bxroberts.org Ruth Talbot @nmcmillan.bsky.social @jdf.bsky.social and so many others projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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I will have more eloquent things to say later, but for now: OH MY GOD, we won the Pulitzer Prize!!!! I love my @washingtonpost.com family. Thank you for everything. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Washington Post wins public service Pulitzer for DOGE, federal workforce coverage
It’s the second time The Post has won the prestigious award in five years. Former staff photographer Jahi Chikwendiu also won for feature photography.
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So proud of data reporters @sophiechou.bsky.social and @harucoryne.bsky.social, who are Pulitzer Prize winners today. They made sense of tens of thousands of scanned, hand written forms to uncover how the Connecticut DMV allows tow companies to sell people’s cars www.propublica.org/article/prop...
ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The award, for uncovering predatory state towing practices, marks ProPublica’s 9th Pulitzer; two additional investigations were named finalists.
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We've cleaned up (or attempted to) and released 1,460 ICE use-of-force incident narratives, dates, and participants, including regional divisions, facilities, and law enforcement agencies. There are more stories to be told with this data. github.com/wpinvestigat...
GitHub - wpinvestigative/ice-reports
Contribute to wpinvestigative/ice-reports development by creating an account on GitHub.
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AMAZING, AMAZING NEWS!! ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting 🎉🎉🎉
ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The award, for uncovering predatory state towing practices, marks ProPublica’s 9th Pulitzer; two additional investigations were named finalists.
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In great company here for my final year as a “young” journalist 😬😬
Wallace House Center for Journalists@umwallacehouse.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnnouncing the 2026 Livingston Award Finalists for National Reporting 👏 These exceptional journalists under 35 are telling stories that challenge assumptions and deepen our understanding of the nation. Read their work here: https://bit.ly/4vJt8ib
