Ash Ngu
Ash Ngu was a reporter, designer and developer with ProPublica’s news apps team.
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Ash Ngu was a reporter, designer and developer with ProPublica’s news apps team. They previously worked at The New York Times and The Pudding.
Behind ProPublica’s Reporting on Repatriation
Our reporters answer frequently asked questions about The Repatriation Project from leaders and citizens of tribal nations.
by Asia Fields, Mary Hudetz, Logan Jaffe and Ash Ngu,
Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains?
Three decades after legislation pushed for the return of Native American remains to Indigenous communities, many of the nation’s top museums and universities still have thousands of human remains in their collections. Check on institutions near you.
by Ash Ngu and Andrea Suozzo,
America’s Biggest Museums Fail to Return Native American Human Remains
The remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans are held by prestigious U.S. institutions, despite a 1990 law meant to return them to tribal nations. Here’s how the ancestors were stolen — and how tribes are working to get them back.
by Logan Jaffe, Mary Hudetz and Ash Ngu, ProPublica, and Graham Lee Brewer, NBC News,
Help Us Investigate Museums’ Failure to Return Native American Human Remains and Cultural Items
Do you know about how museums and other institutions are handling the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural items under NAGPRA? We want to hear from you.
by Asia Fields, Mary Hudetz, Logan Jaffe and Ash Ngu,
America’s Highest Earners and Their Taxes Revealed
Secret IRS files reveal the top US income earners and how their tax rates vary more than their incomes. Tech titans, hedge fund managers and heirs dominate the list, while the likes of Taylor Swift and LeBron James didn’t even make the top 400.
by Paul Kiel, Ash Ngu, Jesse Eisinger and Jeff Ernsthausen,
Meet ProPublica’s 2022 Student Conference Stipend Recipients
With additional support from The Pudding, ProPublica will be sponsoring these 25 talented student journalists to attend conferences including NABJ, AAJA, ONA and IRE.
by Adriana Gallardo, Ash Ngu and Mollie Simon,
Students! ProPublica and The Pudding Want to Send You to a Conference in 2022.
We’re giving 25 stipends to help you attend a journalism conference and/or to support your work.
by Mollie Simon, Ash Ngu and Adriana Gallardo,
Look Up the Salmonella Rates Where Your Poultry Was Processed
How worried should you be about salmonella in your chicken or turkey? Chicken Checker lets you look up where it was processed and find out.
by Andrea Suozzo, Ash Ngu, Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung,
Hay humo todos los años. Las compañías azucareras dicen que el aire es saludable.
Para cosechar más de la mitad de la caña de azúcar de Estados Unidos, empresas multimillonarias prenden fuego a los cañaverales, una práctica para ahorrar dinero que está prohibida por otros países. Algunos residentes dicen que les cuesta respirar, así que comenzamos a estudiar la calidad del aire.
por Lulu Ramadan, The Palm Beach Post, y Ash Ngu y Maya Miller, ProPublica,
Local Reporting Network
The Smoke Comes Every Year. Sugar Companies Say the Air Is Safe.
To harvest more than half of America’s cane sugar, billion-dollar companies set fire to fields, a money-saving practice that’s being banned by other countries.
by Lulu Ramadan, The Palm Beach Post, and Ash Ngu and Maya Miller, ProPublica,
Local Reporting Network