Jesse Coburn and Andy Kroll

Jesse Coburn is a reporter at ProPublica. He joined the newsroom in 2024 after three years as an investigative reporter at Streetsblog NYC. His series there on the black market for temporary license plates led to enacted or proposed laws in three states as well as civil penalties and criminal investigations. Previously, Coburn was a reporter at Newsday, where his reporting on wrongdoing in Long Island local governments spurred investigations and reforms. Coburn’s reporting has received a George Polk Award, an IRE Award, a Sidney Award, a Deadline Club Award and other distinctions. He was also a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Andy Kroll is a reporter for ProPublica covering voting, elections and democracy. He and his colleagues received the 2024 Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting for their expose about conservative powerbroker Leonard Leo. Their podcast, “We Don’t Talk About Leonard,” was a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for long-form audio journalism and an honorable mention for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel award. He was previously the Washington bureau chief for Rolling Stone. His reporting there about a series of cyberattacks on congressional campaigns helped lead to the indictment of a California political operative. Before that, he was a senior reporter at Mother Jones, where his work on self-dealing during the Trump presidency sparked multiple congressional investigations. In 2022, Kroll published his first book, “A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy,” a true-crime investigation about U.S. politics, viral conspiracy theories and one family’s fight for truth. He can be reached on Signal and WhatsApp at 202-215-6203.