Eric Umansky
Eric Umansky is an editor-at-large at ProPublica.
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Eric Umansky is an editor-at-large at ProPublica, where he has overseen two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. Most recently, a series he edited on NYPD abuse of “nuisance abatement” laws won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service. Umansky oversaw much of ProPublica's Trump administration coverage, including the “Trump, Inc.” podcast with WNYC, which won a DuPont Award. More recently, Umansky has reported with his colleagues on police accountability in New York City. The work has won the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting and the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. It has also been credited with helping spur reforms.
Umansky joined ProPublica when it started in 2008. Before that, he wrote a column for Slate. Umansky has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and many others. He is also a co-founder of Document Cloud.
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On this week’s episode, we take listener questions — and ask some ourselves.
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We Asked Local Newsrooms to Pitch Us on Funding Investigations. The Response Has Been Enormous.
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Introducing the Vox-ProPublica Video Fellowship
Vox and ProPublica are teaming to create great, social videos — and we’re hiring for it.
How We’re Learning To Do Journalism Differently in the Age of Trump
Here are four ideas we’ve used to guide our Trump administration coverage.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn’t alone.
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As President Trump takes office, we’re sharing what many of our reporters are digging into.
