Beena Raghavendran
Beena Raghavendran is an engagement reporter focused on local reporting at ProPublica.
Beena Raghavendran is an engagement reporter focused on local reporting at ProPublica. She joined ProPublica in 2018 and works to crowdsource stories with reporters around the country. She also runs the young professionals' network at the Asian American Journalists Association. Prior to ProPublica, she was an education reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Aumentarán la violencia intrafamiliar y el abuso infantil durante las cuarentenas. También empeorará la negligencia contra las personas en riesgo, informan trabajadores sociales.
Diferentes departamentos de servicios sociales se están esforzando por enfrentar las consecuencias de las restricciones causadas por el coronavirus, y los trabajadores sociales informan que grandes cantidades de norteamericanos en riesgo, ancianos, enfermos y discapacitados están en peligro. “Vamos a tener muertes debido a esto”.
Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Will Rise During Quarantines. So Will Neglect of At-Risk People, Social Workers Say.
Patchwork social service departments are scrambling to address the fallout of coronavirus restrictions, and social workers say vast numbers of at-risk, elderly, sick and disabled Americans will be imperiled. “We are going to see some deaths.”
How to Navigate California County Jails: A Guide for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
ProPublica and The Sacramento Bee have been reporting on conditions in California county jails. We’ve heard from more than 100 people about their experiences inside and want to share what they know.
Local Reporting Network
Our Journalists Stopped Calling People Hard-to-Reach and Listened to Them. Here’s What Worked.
We researched why people were reluctant to talk about medical debt, and designed an outreach strategy based on what we learned.
Local Reporting Network
This Doctors Group Is Owned by a Private Equity Firm and Repeatedly Sued the Poor Until We Called Them
After the Blackstone Group acquired one of the nation’s largest physician staffing firms in 2017, low-income patients faced far more aggressive debt collection lawsuits. They only stopped after ProPublica and MLK50 asked about it.
Local Reporting Network
Have You Been Sued by a Hospital, Doctor or Other Medical Institution? Tell Us About It.
ProPublica and MLK50 have been investigating Memphis institutions that profit from the poor. Now, we want to hear from people across the country who have been sued or arrested after unpaid medical bills.
Thousands of Poor Patients Face Lawsuits From Nonprofit Hospitals That Trap Them in Debt
Low-income patients are overcoming stigmas surrounding poverty to speak out about nonprofit hospitals that sue them. Federal officials are noticing.
Local Reporting Network
Have You Been Sued by a Hospital, Doctor or Other Memphis Institution? Tell Us About It.
ProPublica and MLK50 are spending the year investigating the institutions that profit from people who are poor in Memphis. Share your story with us.
Discussing Alaska’s Long History of Sexual Violence Is One Step Toward Seeking Solutions
Seventy people, including elders and Alaska public officials, gathered in Kotzebue for a public conversation on a well-known but rarely discussed statewide problem.
Local Reporting Network
How I Learned to Let Communities Guide Our Local Reporting Projects
As an engagement reporter on ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, I gave people avenues to participate in our reporting and learned lessons about respect, building networks and getting journalism to the people affected by it.
Local Reporting Network