Jobs at ProPublica

Provide onsite and remote end-user technical support across the organization, manage device lifecycle and office A/V, onboard employees, document processes, run trainings, and recommend security-minded improvements for cloud-first tools and enterprise systems.

Develop and execute public relations campaigns for investigative journalism, pitch journalists and reporting to diverse media outlets, manage inbound media requests, prepare staff for interviews, draft press releases, support article republishing, and maintain relationships with media organizations and republishers.

Manage and edit a team of investigative reporters covering Washington beats. Guide story selection, supervise complex investigations, coordinate across data, research, video and audience teams, and elevate reporting and writing to produce impactful accountability journalism.

ProPublica invites independent journalists to submit investigative project proposals that reveal wrongdoing or systemic problems. Applications should include a clear hypothesis, evidence gathered (anecdotes, data, documents), required resources (data work, travel, records), expected findings and accountability angles, and why the reporter is suited. Accepted proposals receive competitive freelance rates and expense coverage; freelancers are independent contractors.

Lead product work to grow and retain members by translating fundraising goals into product priorities, defining metrics, running experiments, and coordinating engineers, designers and analysts to build, integrate and optimize donation, payment, personalization and membership systems.