Amanda Michel

Editor of Distributed Reporting

Michel was the Director of Distributed Reporting. She recently directed HuffPost’s OffTheBus, a ground-breaking citizen journalism site. She has also worked as an online organizer and strategist for political campaigns, including the Dean and Kerry Internet teams.

This Week’s Top MuckReads: Cops Who Stay Undercover and Murdered Whistleblowers

Our rundown of this week’s best investigative or accountability journalism.

This Week’s Top MuckReads: Soldiers’ Suicides, Big Bailouts and More …

This week's top 10 must-read stories from MuckReads, ProPublica's ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism.

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A New Partnership: American Public Media’s Public Insight Network

Today ProPublica announces its partnership with American Public Media’s Public Insight Network. This presents another opportunity to collaborate with newsrooms around the country.

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ProPublica’s Guide to Mechanical Turk

This is a guide to journalists looking to use Mechanical Turk in their data projects.

Reporting Recipe: Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk for Data Projects

Announcing ProPublica’s guide to using Mechanical Turk for data-journalism projects.

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ProPublica offers one distributed reporting/social media internship each spring, summer and fall. We are hiring immediately for the spring internship. Applications should be sent by the end of October.

MSNBC.com, Time and Others Join Our BP Claims Project

Other news organizations are helping ProPublica reach people who have filed claims in the BP oil spill.

Newsrooms Join ProPublica in Examining BP Claims Process: More Welcome

Examining the handling of 140,000 claims filed for damages from the BP oil spill is a job too big for any one newsroom.

Tell Us About Your BP Claim

¿Usted ha registrado una demanda con BP?

Lectores, necesitamos su ayuda. Es hora de examinar la operación masiva de las demandas establecida por BP para los daños del derramamiento de crudo y gas en el Golfo de México.

Đang khiếu nại về dầu tràn với BP?

Đang khiếu nại về dầu tràn với BP?

Have You Filed a Claim With BP?

To hold BP and the government accountable, ProPublica wants to hear from those who have filed damage claims related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Reporting Network Doc Squad

Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas, Georgia and Delaware have adopted laws that restrict freedom of information requests to state citizens only. So ProPublica needs occasional help from readers to get public records in those places.

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