Terry is ProPublica’s deputy editor, engagement. Prior to joining ProPublica, he led digital production and engagement at WDET 101.9 FM, NPR’s affiliate in Detroit.
Terry Parris Jr.
Deputy Editor, Engagement
We Have Some Follow-Ups for Facebook — And We Want Your Help
Senators held Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to account today, grilling him while often citing our investigations. You can help keep Facebook accountable, too.
Bringing Theater and Investigative Reporters to You
Here are the places ProPublica Illinois and Free Street Theater will be visiting. Will we see you there?
How the Public Fueled Our Investigations in 2017
From maternal health to hate on Facebook to Trump, you helped us do much of our reporting last year.
Here’s How to Find Out If Your Elected Officials Are Blocking Constituents on Facebook and Twitter
And here’s why that’s a story.
Coya Paz of Free Street Theater Receives the $15,000 ProPublica Illinois/Illinois Humanities Engagement Challenge Award
The project will host theater workshops in rural and urban communities across Illinois to engage residents in ProPublica Illinois’ investigative journalism.
We Found New Details About the New Trump-Branded Hotels. Now We Want Your Help to Find the Rest.
We’re recruiting local reporters and civically engaged citizens. We have a few ideas on how you can find these deals, who to talk to about them, and what documents to look for.
Help Us Identify the Officials Helping Trump Roll Back Regulations
In February, President Trump ordered federal agencies to form task forces charged with finding regulations to weaken or eliminate. While the names of appointees to executive-agency task forces are typically made public, some agencies are refusing to reveal who is on their panels
Is Your Member of Congress Telling It Straight on the ACA? Help Us Fact-Check Them.
We’re looking for civically engaged people to help us fact-check what members of Congress are sending to their constituents.
Trump’s Travel Ban is Wreaking Havoc on Families, Especially Those With Valid Visas
The executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations is separating families who made every effort to follow U.S. immigration law.
Do You Make Less Than $47,500 a Year? Help Us Investigate Overtime Pay.
Do you make less than $47,500 a year? Help us investigate overtime pay.
Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.
Vietnam Veterans And Their Families Share Stories of Exposure, Illness And Frustration
As part of our Reliving Agent Orange series, ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot have been recording the voices of those impacted by the herbicide, which contained the toxic chemical dioxin.
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.
Breaking the Black Box: How Machines Learn to Be Racist
Artificial Intelligence is only as good as the patterns we teach it. To illustrate the sensitivity of AI systems, we built an AI engine that deduced synonyms from news articles published by different types of news organizations.
Breaking the Black Box: When Machines Learn by Experimenting on Us
As we enter the era of artificial intelligence, machines regularly conduct experiments on human behavior. Here’s a look at how software used by the New York Times and New York Post uses you to test their headlines.
When Algorithms Decide What You Pay
The phone you use, the computer you own and the ZIP code you live in can all be factors in what prices you see when shopping online. Welcome to the world of mass customization.
Breaking the Black Box: What Facebook Knows About You
We live in an era of increasing automation. But as machines make more decisions for us, it is increasingly important to understand the algorithms that produce their judgments.
VA Officials Pledge New Studies Into Effects of Agent Orange
“These individuals deserve an answer,” a top VA official said at a forum hosted by ProPublica and The Virginian-Pilot to address the possible multi-generational impacts of the herbicide.
