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Two months later, missouri attorney general chris koster proposed a series of changes to state court rules, including a requirement for debt-buying companies to provide proof that they own a debt before they can sue a debtor, and measures to prevent companies from winning judgments when the statute of limitations on a debt has expired. \"earlier this year, propublica released a report that confirms what many consumer protection advocates have long suspected,\" koster said in a letter to the missouri supreme court's commission on racial and ethnic fairness. \"the scope of this problem is vast, and there is a growing consensus that reform is desperately needed for our state court system.\" propublica's data journalism in 2015 also ignited a national conversation on patient safety following our publication of surgeon scorecard in july. Spearheaded by reporter marshall allen and deputy data editor olga pierce, this groundbreaking tool compares the performance of nearly 17,000 surgeons by analyzing millions of medicare claims records. It lets patients, for the first time, weigh the past performance of surgeons on eight common elective procedures, allowing them to make better decisions about their healthcare. Our methodology, which accounts for factors such as patients' health and age, was carefully designed in close consultation with surgeons and other leading experts. As we created surgeon scorecard, they repeatedly told us that medical errors - identified by one recent study as the third-leading cause of death in the U.S... - can and should happen far less frequently. They also told us that greater transparency about surgeons' performance could help bring about that goal. Yet almost universally, hospitals fail to publicly report such data. Taking the position that surgeons are ultimately responsible for the full range of care in an operation, and that patients would want to use data about a decision as consequential as choosing a surgeon, we disclosed what hospitals would not. Important stories emerged from the data. A small share of doctors, 11 percent, accounted for about a quarter of complications. Hundreds of surgeons across the country had rates double and triple the national average. And we found that it's not the reputation or status of a hospital that matters most - when it comes to elective operations, it is much more important to pick the right surgeon. While some in the surgical community have been critical of this tool, questioning the methodology and alleging that it unfairly tarnishes some doctors' reputations, many others have praised it as a transformative step that will protect patients. \"a key value of the propublica effort is that it has launched an important debate about how we assess and report surgical quality,\" said dr. Ashish jha, professor at harvard school of public health. \"the old way - where all the information was privileged and known only among physicians - is gone. And it is not coming back.\" in collaboration with npr's howard berkes, reporter michael grabell investigated how our nation's workers' compensation system is being dismantled, often at the behest of big business and insurance companies. Since 2013, 33 states have cut benefits to injured workers, created hurdles to getting care, or made it harder for workers with certain injuries to qualify for workers' comp at all. Reporting on the ground in 16 states and the district of columbia, grabell and berkes interviewed more than 200 injured workers, workers' comp lawyers, employers, lawmakers and others. The scope of these changes had attracted almost no national attention, as politicians passed laws under the banner of \"reforms\" that would provide cost savings while injured workers ostensibly remained protected. Providing a much-needed fact check, propublica combed through laws in all 50 states since 2003 and built a first-ever database of the changes. We presented our findings in a news application showing the maximum compensation workers could receive for each body part in each jurisdiction. This revealed dramatic discrepancies between states in the benefits paid. For example, a lost arm is worth $45,000 in workers' comp in alabama, but more than $740,000 over a lifetime in neighboring georgia. A further story demonstrated that a move in some states to permit employers to opt-out of local systems was further hurting the very workers the system is supposedly designed to protect. The stories prompted new legislation to raise benefits in alabama. Ten members of congress, citing propublica's investigation, urged the U.S... Labor secretary to devise an oversight plan for state workers' comp programs. \"the race to the bottom now appears to be nearly bottomless,\" the members of congress wrote. Over and over again in 2015, propublica reporters and editors examined and distilled massive data sets to help readers make sense of important issues. We worked with department of education data, which involved 2,000 variables for each of about 7,800 colleges, to build an interactive database showing readers the discounts colleges give to their least wealthy students and how much debt average students take on. In our investigation with al.com of an alabama \"chemical endangerment\" statute that makes prenatal drug use a felony, reporters obtained records on every person prosecuted under the measure since 2006, sifting through more than 6,000 cases to identify nearly 500 women whose prosecutions were pregnancy related, in addition to polling every hospital in the state that delivers babies about their drug-testing policies. We were also guided by shoe-leather reporting, knocking on doors to report on the mishandling of horrifying serial rape cases, abuse and neglect at a california group home for troubled children, the unsolved murder cases of five vietnamese-american journalists, the failures of gun control advocates to address the causes of urban gun violence, and the willingness of new york city landlords to flout a law that gave them lucrative tax breaks in exchange for limits on rent increases and guarantees in worker pay. Such stories have real power, and can make a difference in a democratic society. Propublica's work in 2015 demonstrated again that some of the most significant opportunities for telling such stories lie at the intersection of data and reporting. We look forward to another year of finding important but hidden stories, and bringing them to light. The most important test of propublica is whether our work is having impact. By this, we mean not audience size or prizes, but real-world change. Examples of what we mean, and discussions of how we think ab\n\nAnother significant test is recognition from peers in journalism. Propublica was the first online news organization to win a pulitzer prize (2010) and the first to win a pulitzer for stories not published in print (2011). Our work was honored in 2015 as follows: propublica's project with pbs frontline, \"firestone and the warlord,\" about the american tire company's activities in liberia during the country's civil war, won two news & documentary emmy awards in the categories of outstanding investigative journalism and outstanding research. T. Christian miller and jonathan jones' reporting on this story also received the robert f. Kennedy journalism award for new media, the investigative reporters and editors award for multiplatform projects for large organizations, and hunter college's aronson award for social justice journalism. Our article \"segregation now,\" on the re-segregation of america's schools, published in partnership with the atlantic, received the hechinger grand prize for distinguished education reporting, the highest honor in education journalism; the national award for education reporting for beat reporting; the society of professional journalists' sigma delta chi award for public service in online journalism; the deadline club award for digital beat reporting; the society for news design award of excellence for features, single-subject project; honorable mention from the american bar association's silver gavel awards; and recognition as a finalist for the american society of magazine editors' national magazine award for public interest. The national association of black journalists named nikole hannah-jones, the reporter on this project, its journalist of the year. Jesse eisinger's column, \"the trade,\" focused on wall street accountability, won the george loeb award for distinguished business and financial journalism for commentary and the society of american business editors and writers best in business award for digital commentary. Our reporting with the lens on the rapid loss of land on the louisiana coast won a gold medal from the society for news design; the investigative reporters and editors gannett award for innovation in watchdog journalism; the national headliner award for writing for a website; a national edward r. Murrow award in the website category; an edward r. Murrow regional award; and a silver medal in the environmental category of the malofiej international infographics awards. This project, reported for propublica by al shaw and brian jacobs, also received three awards of excellence from the society for news design for features, infographics and multimedia. Our coverage of the dismantling of workers' comp, published in partnership with npr news and reported for propublica by michael grabell, received the online news association's al neuharth innovation in investigative journalism award. Our coverage of the red cross and its mishandling of superstorm sandy, in collaboration with npr news and reported for propublica by jesse eisinger and justin elliot, won the society of silurians excellence in journalism award for public service and was selected as a finalist for the goldsmith prize for investigative reporting. Our article on gun violence in our cities and post-traumatic stress disorder, reported by lois beckett and published in partnership with essence, won the national association of black journalists salute to excellence award for magazine investigative journalism and the deadline club award for public service. A related infographic received a society for news design award of excellence. Our investigation on the U.S... 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When an image circulating on twitter, captioned in both english and spanish, claimed to show an immigration officer arresting a latino man in line to vote, we quickly determined the image was a fake - a composite of two different photographs - and there were no reports of anyone arrested by ice officials while voting. \"most newsrooms in america are asking an important but premature question while polls are open: 'who's winning?'\" said scott klein, propublica deputy managing editor and the project's leader, at the launch of the initiative. \"electionland is an experiment that asks whether we can help empower newsrooms to cover other vitally important questions that day: how is the election itself going? Who's voting and who's being turned away?\" giving voice to a forgotten class propublica's coverage leading up to the election also proved trailblazing. 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