Rob Weychert
Rob was an editorial experience designer at ProPublica
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Rob was an editorial experience designer at ProPublica. Previously, he helped establish the Philadelphia office of the web design agency Happy Cog before serving as an interaction designer at Harmonix, best known for the Rock Band series of video games. He also spent several years as the print producer for the A Book Apart series of web design publications. Rob has a BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown University.
Meet Column Setter
We developed an open source tool for building custom responsive grids that work in older browsers.
by Rob Weychert,
Trump’s Chosen: Who Made It Through A Year In The Whirlwind?
As the first anniversary of the inauguration approaches, we revisit the roster of Cabinet members and key advisors. Who’s in? Who’s gone? Who’s taking flak from the president?
by Jessica Huseman, Ian MacDougall and Rob Weychert,
‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. What happened next is a statewide scandal.
by Sarah Smith,
The Taking
The federal government’s boldest land grab in a generation produced the first border wall — and a trail of abuse, mistakes and unfairness.
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Kiah Collier and Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune,
Political Ads on Facebook
To make American campaigns more transparent, we’ve built a tool to display political ads that are rarely seen outside their selected audience of Facebook users.
by Jeff Larson, Rob Weychert, Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries,
Open Burns, Ill Winds
The Pentagon’s handling of munitions and their waste has poisoned millions of acres, and left Americans to guess at the threat to their health.
Lost Mothers
An estimated 700 to 900 women in the U.S. died from pregnancy-related causes in 2016. We have identified 120 of them so far.
by Nina Martin,
How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.
by Ginger Thompson,
What Hospitals Waste
The nation’s health care tab is sky-high. We’re tracking down the reasons. First stop: A look at all the perfectly good stuff hospitals throw away.
The Chosen: Who Trump Is Putting in Power
As President Donald Trump picks his top officials, we’re laying out the best accountability reporting on each.