Megan Rose
I am a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at ProPublica. Please reach out with tips and documents.
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What I Cover
My reporting involves exposing how regular Americans are harmed by abuses in the criminal justice system, the military and, recently, the regulation of health care. I investigate complex issues and spend significant time getting to know the people affected to tell in-depth, nuanced stories.
My Background
I’ve been a reporter for more than 20 years (my byline was formerly Megan McCloskey). I joined ProPublica in 2013 after working as a correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places around the world for Stars and Stripes and others. I won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting with two colleagues for a series examining how Navy and Marine Corps leadership failed to heed warnings and implement reforms before several fatal accidents.
I have also examined the billions wasted by the U.S. government in Afghanistan and how the Pentagon was failing to find missing service members from past wars.
A series I wrote exposed how rather than working to exonerate wrongfully convicted defendants, prosecutors instead pushed a little-known plea deal that left innocent men with records.
My work has resulted in several falsely convicted men clearing their records, congressional inquiries and high-level leadership changes.
I graduated from the University of Missouri and received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award, a White House Correspondents’ Association award and the Deborah Howell Award for Writing Excellence, and I was twice a finalist for the Livingston Award.
A Las Vegas Judge Approves $1.4 Million Payment to Wrongfully Convicted Man Who Served More Than Two Decades
Fred Steese, who spent decades behind bars for murder — despite the fact that Nevada state prosecutors had documents showing he was in another state at the time of the crime — will receive cash, fees and a certificate of innocence.
U.S. Marine Corps Concludes Its Investigation Into a Fatal 2018 Midair Crash Was Inaccurate
A new review reexamined the December 2018 crash after a ProPublica investigation revealed that Marines had been deprived of adequate training and equipment, and that their repeated pleas for help from superiors before the crash went unaddressed.
What Parents Should Know About Coronavirus as Kids Return to Babysitters, Day Cares and Camps
You never planned on raising kids during a pandemic, and there are no easy decisions. ProPublica scoured the latest research and talked to seven infectious disease and public health experts to help think through the issues facing parents.
It’s Hardly Shocking the Navy Fired a Commander for Warning of Coronavirus Threat. It’s Part of a Pattern.
In dismissing the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the Navy once again punished the messenger, a frontline leader brave enough to tell the unvarnished truth to superiors about a threat to his sailors.
Aumentarán la violencia intrafamiliar y el abuso infantil durante las cuarentenas. También empeorará la negligencia contra las personas en riesgo, informan trabajadores sociales.
Diferentes departamentos de servicios sociales se están esforzando por enfrentar las consecuencias de las restricciones causadas por el coronavirus, y los trabajadores sociales informan que grandes cantidades de norteamericanos en riesgo, ancianos, enfermos y discapacitados están en peligro. “Vamos a tener muertes debido a esto”.
Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Will Rise During Quarantines. So Will Neglect of At-Risk People, Social Workers Say.
Patchwork social service departments are scrambling to address the fallout of coronavirus restrictions, and social workers say vast numbers of at-risk, elderly, sick and disabled Americans will be imperiled. “We are going to see some deaths.”
After Discovering a Sailor With Coronavirus, the U.S. Navy Crowded Dozens Into One Room
On the USS Boxer, where the Navy discovered its first case of coronavirus on a ship, a sailor says his superiors called a meeting that crammed more than 80 senior enlisted sailors and officers together.
Warship Accidents Left Sailors Traumatized. The Navy Struggled to Treat Them.
Recent wars have forced the U.S. military to acknowledge and treat the psychological wounds caused by trauma. But some sailors who survived 2017’s deadly crashes say the Navy’s efforts to help them sometimes fell short.
Trump Says U.S. Is Ready for War. Not All His Troops Are So Sure.
A series of accidents calls the military’s preparedness into question.
Faulty Equipment, Lapsed Training, Repeated Warnings: How a Preventable Disaster Killed Six Marines
Marine commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time.