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Managing Editor at @propublica. Former Mexico City Bureau Chief at @nytimes. Raised in El Paso. At home on both sides of the border.
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The Most-Read ProPublica Stories of 2025

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By Joshua Kaplan Verified, Ginger Thompson Verified, McKenzie Funk Verified, Eli Hager Verified
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When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, ProPublica’s reporters set out to cover how his second administration would reshape the government and the country. Our reporters detailed what happened when the Department of Government Efficiency, initially led by Elon Musk, slashed federal agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Social Security Administration.
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I Started Covering the COVID-19 Crisis in Albany, Georgia. This Moment Made Me Realize There Was a Bigger Story to Tell. Original

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By Ginger Thompson Verified
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Last week, ProPublica published a five-part series that I wrote with senior research reporter Doris Burke about Albany, Georgia, and its only hospital, Phoebe Putney Memorial. We started working on the story five years ago, when COVID-19 was racing around the globe and Albany — small, remote and barely touched by time — had the world’s fourth-highest case rate. We initially set out to write a David-vs.-Goliath narrative about the town’s response to the crisis.
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Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 5: Too Big to Fight

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By Ginger Thompson Verified, Doris Burke Verified
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Sandra Parker in front of a portrait of her husband at Georgia’s Albany Technical College A woman with gray hair wearing a leopard-print blue jacket reaches up to a painting on a wall of a man wearing a suit and smiling. Change Appearance Listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Sick in a Hospital Town Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Anthony Parker watching his son, Richard, play Pee Wee football in 1990 TK There was no longer any reason to keep Dr. Parker in the ICU. On Friday, Mrs.
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