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.
Campaign Email Overload? We've Got a Website for That
The political conventions are upon us, and with them a new flood of campaign emails. ProPublica debuts a new campaign emails Tumblr.
Explore Hundreds of Campaign Emails in the Message Machine
Today we're opening up the political campaign emails we have collected from our readers.
Message Machine Update: A Cameo by Sheldon Adelson
On Saturday the Obama campaign sent an email to supporters mentioning Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who has donated millions to Republican super PACs.
Message Machine: Dinner at Sarah Jessica Parker’s House
Last Monday, the Obama campaign sent out an email about a dinner with the President at Sarah Jessica Parker's house this coming Thursday. We received 7 versions of it.
North Dakota Spills
With the help of hydraulic fracturing, energy companies have doubled North Dakota's oil production in the past two years. But the oil boom has come at a cost: these companies are spilling and leaking oil and wastewater at an increasing rate.
Help Us Track How Politicians Target You
Political campaigns are using increasingly sophisticated methods to target messages to voters, methods that are not at all transparent. We need your help to uncover and understand them.
Announcing Simpler Tiles
Today, we're releasing Ruby bindings for Simple Tiles, so you can generate tiles from Ruby.
Reverse-Engineering Obama’s Message Machine
How different are a campaign's emails to different voters? President Obama's re-election campaign tried at least six different messages sent on behalf of campaign deputy manager Julianna Smoot in an email blast last week.
Message Machine: Reverse Engineering an Obama Email Campaign
Campaigns are increasingly tailoring their messages -- and their funding requests -- using massive databases of personal information about potential voters. Here are six variations of a Thursday night message from the Obama campaign, based on emails submitted by 190 recipients across the country.