Andrea Wise
I am ProPublica’s visual strategy editor. I edit and art direct photography, illustration and other forms of visual storytelling.
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As ProPublica’s visual strategy editor, I edit visuals for stories and also develop systems and processes that help our visual teams do their best work. I also co-founded Diversify Photo, a nonprofit organization that supports the work of photographers, editors and visual producers from underrepresented groups in the global visual media landscape.
Before joining ProPublica as a visuals editor in 2021, I was a photo editor at National Geographic and have also photo edited for Newsweek, The Intercept and BuzzFeed News. I studied studio art at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and then started my career as a photojournalist working for newspapers including The New York Times, the Hartford Courant and the Victoria Advocate. I discovered my love of editing in grad school at Syracuse University.
“I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network
Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would deliver on its promise of access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist.
When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means.
Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaranteed to end up in landfills and incinerators.
This Guardian Enriched Herself Using the Finances of Vulnerable People In Her Care. Judges Let It Happen.
Judges allowed one of New York’s most prolific guardians to engage in apparent self-dealing as she transferred $1.5 million of her wards’ money to her own company.
Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says
Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
New York Trusted This Company to Care for the Sick and Elderly. Instead, It Left People Confused and Alone.
Unchanged diapers. Fees collected for care never given. New York Guardianship Services is often tasked with caring for the "unbefriended," but records show more than a dozen cases where it failed to meet the needs of the most vulnerable.
“Someone Tell Me What to Do”
Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.
Here’s What Can Happen When Kids Age Out of Foster Care
Two teens aged out of New Mexico’s child welfare system last year. This photo essay shows how different their lives have become.
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The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”
Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons never worked. Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.
Both Parents Agree: The Child Is Being Harmed. Which One Will the Court Believe?
A child said he was being sexually and physically abused by his father. The father alleged the mother was brainwashing the child against him. One reporter dug into years of case files to understand how courts decided to interpret the facts.
The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”
HomeVestors of America, the self-proclaimed “largest homebuyer in the U.S.,” trains its nearly 1,150 franchisees to zero in on homeowners’ desperation.