Jeff Larson
Jeff Larson is a reporter at ProPublica.
Jeff Larson is a reporter at ProPublica. He is a winner of the Livingston Award for the 2011 series Redistricting: How Powerful Interests are Drawing You Out of a Vote. Jeff's public key.
The NSA Revelations All in One Chart
We plotted the NSA programs, showing which ones fall squarely into the agency’s stated mission of foreign surveillance, and which ones are more controversial.
School Segregation After Brown
Hundreds of school districts were placed under court order to desegregate following the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Many communities do not know the status of these orders. Use this tool to find out whether your district is or ever was under a desegregation order, and also to look at the levels of integration and segregation in your schools.
FAQ About NSA’s Interest in Angry Birds and Other ‘Leaky Apps’
We lay out more from our story about how the NSA and its British counterpart have been scouring smartphone apps.
Spy Agencies Probe Angry Birds and Other Apps for Personal Data
New documents show the NSA and its British counterpart have access to advertiser data on smartphone apps, which can include your gender, income, and even whether you're a "swinger."
How We Made the 3-D New York City Flood Map
We used features only available in the most modern web browsers to create the interactive map of the city's flood zones.
Temporary Work, Lasting Harm
Temp workers are thrown into dangerous work with little training and suffer injuries far more often than permanent employees.
How We Calculated Injury Rates for Temp and Non-Temp Workers
Worker’s comp data collected from five states shows temps are far more likely to be injured on the job.
NIST to Review Standards After Cryptographers Cry Foul Over NSA Meddling
The federal institute that sets national standards for data encryption has announced it is reviewing all of its previous recommendations.
Government Standards Agency “Strongly” Suggests Dropping its Own Encryption Standard
The decision follows revelations about the NSA’s covert influence on computer security standards.
Johns Hopkins and the Case of the Missing NSA Blog Post
The university, which works closely with the NSA, apologizes to a professor after he was asked to remove his post.