Jacob Orledge

Jan 23, 2025 | 19thnews.org | Abby Johnston |Sarah Carr |Jacob Orledge |Jackie Mader

Published One year ago, we launched The 19th News Network (19NN), a collective of national, regional and local publishers who share in our newsroom’s mission of advancing gender and racial equity in journalism. The network launched with 25 member newsrooms from across the country. Over the past year, that number has expanded to 102. Members of 19NN are tiny, hyper-local newsrooms and national legacy publications. They cover education, climate and health.

Jan 23, 2025 | 19thnews.org | Sarah Carr |Jacob Orledge |Jackie Mader |Eleanor Klibanoff

Published This story about early intervention was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. JOLIET, Ill. — After several challenging and stressful months in the neonatal intensive care unit, Karen Heath couldn’t wait to take her triplet sons home. The boys had been born severely premature at 25 weeks, each weighing a bit over a pound.

Jan 8, 2025 | 19thnews.org | Jacob Orledge |Jackie Mader |Eleanor Klibanoff |Rachel Somerstein

Published This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the North Dakota Monitor. Fed-up North Dakotans, led by a group of women calling themselves the BadAss Grandmas, voted to amend the constitution and establish a state Ethics Commission six years ago. Their goal was to investigate and stop unethical conduct by public officials.

Jan 8, 2025 | propublica.org | Doug Bock Clark |Jacob Orledge |Joshua Kaplan |Daniel Rothberg

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. The Republican-controlled Supreme Court of North Carolina threw the election of one of its members into disarray on Tuesday as it temporarily blocked the certification of the Democrat incumbent’s narrow victory.

Jan 7, 2025 | propublica.org | Kyle Hopkins |Richard Webster |Joshua Kaplan |Jacob Orledge

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The time to resolve Alaska’s most serious felony cases, such as murder and sexual assault, has nearly tripled over the past decade. Defense attorneys seek trial delays to manage crammed schedules, knowing that time tends to favor their clients. But Alaska judges are the ones who routinely say yes.