{"id":14342,"date":"2017-05-22T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=14342"},"modified":"2017-05-22T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T20:12:29","slug":"propublica-illinois-hires-tribune-investigative-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/05\/22\/propublica-illinois-hires-tribune-investigative-reporters\/","title":{"rendered":"ProPublica Illinois hires Tribune investigative reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14343\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/05\/22\/propublica-illinois-hires-tribune-investigative-reporters\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14343\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14343\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-1024x536.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-300x157.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-768x402.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-500x262.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-150x79.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-400x209.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-800x419.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois-200x105.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProPublica-Illinois.jpg 1186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> ProPublica Illinois<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\">Chicago Tribune\u2019s <\/a>premier investigative reporters were among the first journalists to be hired Monday by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/propublica-illinois-coming-soon-info\">ProPublica Illinois, <\/a>the independent, nonprofit investigative news startup.<\/p>\n<p>Jodi S. Cohen, an investigative reporter and editor and former higher education reporter during her 14 years at the Tribune, and Jason Grotto, an investigative reporter at the Tribune for 10 years, have joined ProPublica\u2019s Chicago-based newsroom as reporters. Both have won numerous regional and national awards.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>ProPublica Illinois also announced the hiring Monday of David Eads, an editor and software developer for NPR Visuals, as a news applications developer. Eads is co-founder of the<a href=\"https:\/\/invisible.institute\"> Invisible Institute, <\/a>the nonprofit citizens investigative journalism project on Chicago\u2019s South Side. Earlier he worked for the Tribune\u2019s news apps team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re off to a great start in building the ProPublica Illinois team with these stellar journalists,\u201d Louise Kiernan, ProPublica Illinois editor-in-chief, said in a statement. \u201cTheir formidable skills in data-driven accountability journalism, strong community roots in Illinois, and track records of real-world impact make them exciting additions to our newsroom. We look forward to announcing more hires soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kiernan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for the Tribune, was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2017\/02\/21\/louise-kiernan-named-editor-propublica-illinois\/\"> named<\/a> editor-in-chief in February. She most recently was an associate professor at Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois will mark the first regional publishing venture for ProPublica, the nonprofit producer of investigative journalism, founded in New York in 2007. ProPublica Illinois will publish its stories online and partner with other news organizations on a nonexclusive basis.<\/p>\n<p>When fully staffed later this year, it is expected to have about 10 news employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the Chicago Tribune\u2019s premier investigative reporters were among the first journalists to be hired Monday by ProPublica Illinois, the independent, nonprofit investigative news startup. Jodi S. Cohen, an investigative reporter and editor and former higher education reporter during her 14 years at the Tribune, and Jason Grotto, an investigative reporter at the Tribune... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/05\/22\/propublica-illinois-hires-tribune-investigative-reporters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14347,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions\/14347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}