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.
Housing Segregation: The Great Migration and Beyond
Explore the great migration of African Americans from 1940 to 2000 and segregation in Northern cities.
Anatomy of a News Map
Behind the scenes on our great migration graphic.
Iraq Blocks Syria's Request to Fetch Combat Helicopters from Russia
Mystery solved. Syria had requested to ferry attack helicopters from Russia over Iraq, but the flights hadn't happened. Now, the Iraqis say they denied permission.
To Retrieve Attack Helicopters from Russia, Syria Asks Iraq for Help, Documents Show
Documents show that Syria asked Iraqiauthorities to grant air access to fly in refurbished attack helicopters fromRussia, putting a spotlight on Iraq’s role in the nearly two-year conflict.
Syria Claims Turkey Committed 'Air Piracy,' New Documents Say
Hackers with the online group Anonymous posted new documents giving Syria’s version of how Turkey impounded a Syrian Arab Airlines passenger jet last month. The documents could not be authenticated.
Flight Records Say Russia Sent Syria Tons of Cash
The records of overflight requests show more than 200 tons of "bank notes" from Moscow to Damascus.
New Open Source Project: Daybreak, a Simple Key/Value Database for Ruby
A couple of weeks ago, in an article about the science behind the Message Machine project, we mentioned the custom key-value store we built to store non-relational data. Today, we're open sourcing the library which we're calling Daybreak.
Message Machine: Tracking Political Targeting
Political campaigns send many variations of each email to supporters. We've been collecting emails from political campaigns and tracking the variations. You can be a part of this project by forwarding political emails you get to [email protected].
Message Machine Starts Providing Answers
Political campaigns use massive databases to target their constituents. ProPublica's Message Machine is beginning to find some answers on how they do it.
How ProPublica's Message Machine Reverse Engineers Political Microtargeting
How the message machine works.