ProPublica introduced that Ryan Little and Kevin Uhrmacher have been employed as deputy editors on our information and information functions groups. Little will function one among two deputy information editors, and Uhrmacher will work as deputy information functions editor. Collectively, they may strengthen ProPublica’s enhancing capability and streamline collaboration between our information, interactive and reporting groups.
“We’re so comfortable to have Ryan and Kevin becoming a member of us at ProPublica,” mentioned Ken Schwencke, senior editor for information and information functions. “They’re glorious managers and journalists, and we’re excited to carry them on to make the already-excellent journalism coming from these groups even higher.”
Little joins ProPublica from The Baltimore Banner, the place he served as information editor and labored on tales that gained a Pulitzer Prize, a George Polk Award and an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, amongst different honors. These tales included a collection revealing the town’s overdose disaster, an investigation of the transit nightmare Baltimore college students face to get to highschool, and the way listless container ships just like the one which collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge are extra frequent than beforehand recognized. Previous to his time on the Banner, Little labored at Mom Jones as a Roy W. Howard fellow.
Little beforehand collaborated with ProPublica in 2022 on a lease pricing investigation that led to a Division of Justice inquiry and a settlement with Greystar, the nation’s largest landlord, who agreed to cease utilizing anti-competitive lease algorithms.
He holds a grasp’s diploma from the Philip Merrill School of Journalism on the College of Maryland, the place he additionally teaches information journalism.
“ProPublica has set the usual for accountability information journalism, and I’m delighted to affix the group,” Little mentioned. “I’m wanting to pursue audacious, high-impact work collectively.”
Uhrmacher involves ProPublica from The Washington Submit, the place he labored for greater than 11 years, most just lately as graphics task editor overseeing information visualization and interactive tales. Uhrmacher was a driving drive behind a few of the Submit’s most impactful visible journalism, together with doing graphics enhancing on work that was part of three Pulitzer Prizes.
He launched quite a few trackers, together with people who adopted state abortion legal guidelines and presidential appointees. He additionally served as a graphics editor and undertaking supervisor for a database-driven story that detailed the historical past of enslavers in Congress, which gained a Salute to Excellence Award from the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists.
“I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of ProPublica’s stellar information functions group, which has been an business chief in interactive accountability journalism, together with by making consequential information extra accessible to the general public,” Uhrmacher mentioned. “ProPublica’s work exposing abuses of the general public belief — at a worldwide, nationwide and native scale — makes it a prime vacation spot for any journalist, and I’m honored that the establishment has entrusted me with this position.”
