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This article was produced in partnership with MIT Technology Review, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading. For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath […] The post How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the…
This story was produced as part of the Springboard Project. Like any executive, whenever Gov. Jeff Landry makes a decision, reviews legislation, weighs a policy proposal, or schedules a meeting with a company his administration hopes to convince to set up shop in Louisiana, there’s a team of people behind him. Chiefs of staff advise and […] The post ‘Gag order’: More than 100 Louisiana state…
Paco Alvarez: So my first question is, how did you get your start in investigative journalism? Byard Duncan: Back in 2015, I joined Reveal as their community manager. So my first role there was managing their social, doing a little bit of engagement reporting work and handling newsletters, things like that. And even though I […] The post The Backstory: Byard Duncan appeared first on Type…
The 911 system functions as a sort of promise: Call for help, and someone will be there to respond quickly. But in many American cities, it’s a broken promise. Thanks in part to a widespread understaffing crisis across 911 dispatch centers, hundreds of thousands of callers are left waiting on hold during their most harrowing […] The post 911, Please Hold appeared first on Type Investigations .
Paco Alvarez: How did the idea for Courts of Contempt come about? Max Rivlin-Nadler: So since we launched Hell Gate around just over four years ago, this had been something that had been on our mind, which was how nobody has had done a deep dive into how the judicial system as a whole functions […] The post The Backstory: Max Rivlin-Nadler appeared first on Type Investigations .
Type Investigations is thrilled to announce that Maryam Saleh has joined the team as senior editor for the Springboard Project, an initiative that supports newsrooms serving historically marginalized communities in building investigative capacity. Saleh will mentor Springboard partners in producing impactful investigations, guiding them from story inception to final edits and publication. She will…
This project was produced in partnership with Hell Gate, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. Judges wield enormous power. Here in the five boroughs, they are often the ultimate arbiters in deciding how many New Yorkers get sent to Rikers Island, where and how new housing will be built, and when children are removed […] The post Courts of Contempt appeared first on Type Investigations .
Every weekday morning outside the 16-story apartment complex at 1400 East-West Highway in Silver Spring, Maryland, students step onto big yellow buses that take them to school. It’s not a particularly pleasant spot: The building faces a fenced-off construction site across six lanes humming with Washington metro-area commuter traffic. But this is an important place […] The post The AI School Bus…
This story was published in partnership with Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action, and in collaboration with Verite News and WWNO/WRKF. With support from the H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism. A dozen federal judges have presided over some of the most consequential environmental lawsuits in Louisiana’s history despite having […] The post…
This article was produced in partnership with Rest of World. Inside a law enforcement command center in Ciudad Juárez, a police officer scrolled across a map on her touch-screen computer. As she used her fingers to navigate through the Mexican state of Chihuahua, where Juárez is located, different colored bubbles lit up. “That one is […] The post A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of…
