Ariana Tobin
Ariana is the crowdsourcing and engagement team editor at ProPublica, where she works to cultivate communities to inform our coverage.
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Ariana is the crowdsourcing and engagement team editor at ProPublica, working on community-sourced investigations. She has focused on technology and problematic labor practices, from Facebook-fueled discriminatory ads, large-scale layoffs of older workers at IBM and misclassified customer service representatives in the gig economy. Her reporting has contributed to three consecutive Gerald Loeb awards, two Edward R. Murrow awards, a SABEW Best in Business award and a Barlett & Steele bronze award.
She previously worked as an engagement editor at The Guardian, as a digital producer for APM’s Marketplace, and as a podcast producer at WNYC. There, she helped launch the multi-platform Bored and Brilliant and Infomagical series, which analyzed information on nearly 30,000 participants’ smartphone habits and earned her an Online News Association MJ Bear Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The New Republic, The New York Times, the St. Louis Beacon and Bustle. She studied on a Fulbright grant in Minsk, Belarus. She is currently lead trainer for the Balkans Investigative Reporting Network’s Engaged Citizens Reporting program.
Long Lines Test Voter Patience Across the Nation
With waits at polling places sometimes exceeding an hour, some voters turn away as poll workers wrestle with malfunctioning equipment and overflow crowds.
by Ian MacDougall and Ariana Tobin,
Amid Accusations of Age Bias, IBM Winds Down a Push for Millennial Workers
Several age-discrimination lawsuits and investigations have cited IBM’s Millennial Corps as evidence of the company’s bias toward younger workers. Now, it seems, the company is bringing this effort to an end.
by Peter Gosselin and Ariana Tobin,
Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men
A review by ProPublica found that 15 employers in the past year, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex, with many of the ads playing to stereotypes.
by Ariana Tobin and Jeremy B. Merrill,
Besieged Facebook Says New Ad Limits Aren’t Response to Lawsuits
The social network is removing 5,000 options that regulators say enable advertisers to discriminate.
by Ariana Tobin and Jeremy B. Merrill,
Did You Go to a Washington Nationals Game With Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh?
Trump’s pick is a baseball fan who racked up considerable debt buying season tickets. Help us figure out who went with the nominated judge.
by Ariana Tobin and Justin Elliott,
Facebook Promises to Bar Advertisers From Targeting Ads by Race or Ethnicity. Again.
Settling an investigation by the state of Washington prompted by a ProPublica story, the social networking company said it would no longer allow advertisers to exclude users by any federally protected categories.
by Ariana Tobin,
Updated: Facebook Political Ad Collector
See how political advertisers target you. Use this database to search for political ads based on who was meant to see them.
by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ally J. Levine, Ariana Tobin, Jeff Larson, and Julia Angwin,
Facebook’s Screening for Political Ads Nabs News Sites Instead of Politicians
The social network is letting some political ads slip through without the required verification, while blocking promotional posts by news organizations, which are pushing back.
by Jeremy B. Merrill and Ariana Tobin,
What Facebook’s New Political Ad System Misses
Facebook announced a new system to make political ads more transparent. It’s got holes.
by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ariana Tobin, and Madeleine Varner,
Did Your Employer Ask You to Sign Away Your Right to Talk? We Want to Know About It.
We hope to learn more about what effect nondisclosure agreements have on people’s lives and careers.
by Ariana Tobin,