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Tracy Weber

Tracy Weber is a managing editor at ProPublica. Previously, Weber was a deputy managing editor and senior reporter covering health care issues at ProPublica and, before that, she reported for the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Orange County Register.

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Tracy Weber is a managing editor at ProPublica, where she helps oversee and maximize projects across the newsroom.

Weber joined the original ProPublica staff as a reporter in 2008 from the Los Angeles Times, where she paired with Charles Ornstein on a series of articles about a troubled hospital that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2005, among other awards. At ProPublica, she and Ornstein were finalists for the same award in 2010 for a series on the broken oversight of nurses

Weber joined ProPublica’s editing ranks in 2014. In the six years that followed, work she edited won virtually every significant honor in journalism. Among other standouts, this includes a series she co-edited on grave, systemic problems in the Navy that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting; reporting on family separations, which won the Peabody Award’s first ever Catalyst Award, a George Polk award and was a Pulitzer finalist; and a series on jailhouse informants that won a National Magazine Award. She also guided hallmark series on how the financial system punishes the working poor; the gutting of the workers’ comp system; the toxic effect of blood spatter forensics on the justice system; and the rampant waste and perverse incentives in health care.

When Caregivers Harm

A 'Crazy' Way for an Industry to Operate

When Caregivers Harm

Temp Firms a Magnet for Unfit Nurses

When Caregivers Harm

California Adopts Stricter Rules for Drug Abusers in the Health Industry

Addressing concerns about health workers who abuse drugs, often stealing hem from patients, California will now require nurses, dentists and other health workers in state-run recovery programs to take at least 104 drug tests in their first year, and a single positive test will remove a worker, at least temporarily.

When Caregivers Harm

Reform of California Nursing Board's Discipline System Shows Early Progress

When Caregivers Harm

Schwarzenegger Wants Sweeping Reforms in Discipline System for Health Care Providers

When Caregivers Harm

California Will Require Criminal Background Checks Before Granting Temporary Licenses to Nurses

When Caregivers Harm

Loose Reins on Nurses in Drug Abuse Program

When Caregivers Harm

More Nurses Fallout: Head of Investigations Unit Resigns

When Caregivers Harm

California Nursing Board Executive Officer Ruth Ann Terry Resigns

When Caregivers Harm

Schwarzenegger Replaces Most of State Nursing Board