Joe Sexton
Joe Sexton was a senior editor at ProPublica. Before coming to ProPublica in 2013, he had worked for 25 years as a reporter and editor at The New York Times.
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Joe Sexton was a senior editor at ProPublica. Before coming to ProPublica in 2013, he had worked for 25 years as a reporter and editor at The New York Times. Sexton served as metropolitan editor at the Times from 2006 to 2011, and his staff won two Pulitzer Prizes, including the award for breaking news for its coverage of Eliot Spitzer’s downfall. From 2011 to 2013, Sexton served as the paper's sports editor, overseeing its coverage of the 2012 Summer Games in London and the Penn State scandal, among other major stories. The department under Sexton won a wide array of awards for its photography, art design and innovative online presentations. As a reporter, Sexton covered sports, politics, crime and the historic overhaul of the country's welfare legislation. His work was anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting (Houghton/Mifflin). Sexton is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn and the father of four daughters.
Can the U.S. Military Build a Border Wall Even as It Struggles to Rebuild Itself?
President Donald Trump has floated the idea that the military build his much-touted border wall. Tonight, the idea might become reality.
“I Don’t Want to Shoot You, Brother”
A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect.
In New York, Crime Falls Along With Police Stops
Police have radically cut back their use of stop-and-frisk policies. To the surprise of some, crime didn’t spike, but tumbled yet again.
How Many American Women Die From Causes Related to Pregnancy or Childbirth? No One Knows.
Data collection on maternal deaths is so flawed and under-funded that the federal government no longer even publishes an official death rate.
Amid the Blaring Headlines, Routine Reports of Hate-Fueled Violence
Documenting Hate’s catalogue of incidents captures the seeming ordinariness of many of them.
Victims in Thousands of Potential Hate Crimes Never Notify Police
A new federal survey on hate crimes offers cause for both alarm and confusion.
Despite Exposés and Embarrassments, Hundreds of Judges Preside in New York Without Law Degrees
A review of the work of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct chronicles the costs of a tradition resistant to change.
We’re Investigating Hate Across the U.S. There’s No Shortage of Work.
The coalition of newsrooms behind “Documenting Hate” has recorded a wide variety of violence in all corners of the country.
The Cost of Trump’s Wall Compared to the Programs He’s Proposing to Cut
America may get its border wall. It just might have to do without a lot else.
Lawyers Formally Ask That Guilty Verdict Be Set Aside in Etan Patz Murder Case
Lawyers for the man convicted in the killing of a 6-year-old Manhattan boy who went missing in 1979 have filed a motion asking the judge in the case to set aside the guilty verdict because of jury contamination.