Here’s good news for Chicago journalists and journalism. ProPublica is hiring. The New York-based investigative outlet is interviewing for an editor here in Chicago. And once that editor is found—by early January, says ProPublica—he or she will take the lead in hiring an editorial staff of ten or so additional journalists. The Ford Foundation gave ProPublica a grant to extend its operations beyond New York, and Chicago will be the first outpost.
Not-for-profit ProPublica launched itself in 2008 and called itself the “best-led and best-funded investigative journalism operation in the United States.” It had won two Pulitzers when I looked in on it in 2011, and has since won another. Support comes from institutional and family foundations and from individual donors.
