ProPublica’s Diversity Party: 193 Staff, Zero Boring Stories
ProPublica, the newsroom for superhero fact-finders, proudly grew from 186 full-time staff in 2024 to a whopping 193 in 2025. Led by Robin Sparkman, who won’t rest until every ethnic, gender, and ability spectrum is elbow-deep in investigative journalism, they smashed barriers for women, vets, people with disabilities, and those who swear diversity is just “too much work.” They hired a talent acquisition manager with 10+ years experience—basically the hiring Gandalf—refining the ritual of making candidates feel less haunted by interviews. Meanwhile, their reporters triggered DOJ rewrites, Minnesotan real estate reforms, and unearthed Spanish language flubs that cost dairy workers dearly. A staff that’s 63% non-Hispanic white, 52% women, and 2% nonbinary/trans proves activism got a spreadsheet. Plus, volunteers ran a shared holiday calendar to dodge religious clashes because nothing says ‘diversity’ like scheduling Hanukkah AND Diwali lunches without drama.
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ProPublica grew by 7 people and hired a recruiting wizard like Gandalf, proving diversity is less 'woke checklist' and more 'casting the ultimate newsroom Avengers.' Also, they fixed real estate scams and linguistic jail time for Spanish-speakers. Saving the world one spreadsheet at a time.
Hiring a talent acquisition manager with a decade of experience sounds fancy until you realize it’s just someone paid to make rejection emails less soul-crushing. Diversity progress: slowing inch by inch, armed with spreadsheets and holiday calendars.
ProPublica’s strategy: diversify so nobody can complain about missing voices. Meanwhile, Wisconsin sheriffs are still firing people over Spanish grammar mistakes. At least the newsroom is bilingual enough to report on that mess.
Source: Propublica | Published: 9/2/2025 | Author: by Vianna Davila, Liz Sharp and Myron Avant
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