Mollie Simon
eater of chocolate | baker of bread | finder of facts | now: 🔍 @propublica
- Reposted by Mollie Simon“What they’re really doing, they want to spoon-feed information to the journalist, and that would be their story. That’s not journalism,” said Jack Keane, a retired U.S. Army general and Fox News analyst, said on Hegseth’s former network. Via @apnews.com
- Reposted by Mollie SimonToday we delivered to senior management in NY a petition signed by 1,300 ProPublica readers, donors and supporters, as well as fellow journalists at peer newsrooms and former ProPublicans. It’s clear that we have wide support for a fair contract NOW.
- Reposted by Mollie SimonLet's get clickbait out of local news. We are a group of Idaho and Washington journalists, and our publishing company, McClatchy, wants the ability to punish us for not meeting arbitrary story quotas. THREAD
- Reposted by Mollie SimonNEW: ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace as well as the journalism community more broadly, while ensuring equal opportunities for all. Each year we publish a report on those efforts. This is the report for 2025.
- Reposted by Mollie SimonToday, we sent a letter to @themarshallproject.org leadership expressing concern about their denial of bargaining obligations. Management has repeatedly denied members Weingarten rights, engaged in an illegal layoff, and more — we need your help to demand that management bargain in good faith.
- Reposted by Mollie SimonI love working at ProPublica. I would love it more if it could guarantee us just cause protections. Go union.
- Reposted by Mollie SimonWe want a fair and equitable process with robust just cause. We deserve no less than our peers in other unionized newsrooms. I’m not in NY but still lunching out in support.
- Our New York members took their lunch outside today to demand that @propublica.org management agree to a fair discipline and performance evaluation system ✊
- Reposted by Mollie SimonProPubli-paws love Just Cause 🐾
- Reposted by Mollie SimonMembers in Chicago, Seattle, Berkeley and across the country are lunching out to show support for Just Cause protections that apply to every ProPublica Guild worker, every time.
- Reposted by Mollie SimonWhile reporting this story about Hurricane Helene in NC, I was struck by how many people were asleep near creeks and rivers largely unaware of the coming danger. They were left to swim from homes. Or worse. 100+ died Texas is sounding so tragically similar. www.propublica.org/article/hurr...
- “It’s a nasty loan.” New from @friedmanadam5.bsky.social:
- More than a dozen borrowers told us that Advance Financial has encouraged them through emails and notifications to borrow back the value of almost all of the payments they made, tearing a hole in the safety net the law tried to put in place. @friedmanadam5.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com
- The best teachers leave the biggest legacies. decaturish.com/2025/05/go-d...
- Reposted by Mollie SimonNEW: Former “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Owner to Plead Guilty in Fraud Scheme That Cost Investors $40 Million @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social @mrsimon22.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mollie SimonNEW: Former “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchise owner Charles Carrier agreed to plead guilty to one count of felony wire fraud that carries a potential 20-year prison sentence. The plea follows a ProPublica report detailing how Carrier bilked investors across Texas out of millions of dollars.
- Reposted by Mollie Simon🧵NEW: In 2023, I wrote about Tamara Lanier’s quest to get daguerreotypes taken of nude enslaved people at the behest of a @harvard.edu scientist - and still housed at its Peabody Museum - moved. She wanted them sent to @iaamuseum.bsky.social It would mark a "homecoming," she told me then.
- Reposted by Mollie Simon1/ The day after the Antioch High shooting, Nashville police arrested a 12-year-old for posting a concerning screenshot on Instagram. His school was supposed to figure out if it was a valid threat. Instead, the school expelled him with no further investigation.
- Reposted by Mollie SimonNEW: After four months of reporting, ProPublica found that the warnings about Helene were eerily accurate. Yet, local residents remained largely unaware of the enormity of danger approaching as the storm closed in. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social @mrsimon22.bsky.social @cgaribay.bsky.social
- Appreciate @marksimon.bsky.social’s efforts to highlight the work of all types of journalists!
- My latest journalist interview is with Mollie Simon (@mrsimon22.bsky.social ) a research reporter at Pro Publica (@propublica.org). If you're interested in what goes into the behind-the-scenes on stories for a prominent news outlet, this is a good one for you podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
- Reposted by Mollie SimonThree of our colleagues are being placed on PIPs today and @propublica.org management has refused to allow stewards in those meetings. We're not shutting up about this — our colleagues deserve better and we're extremely disappointed in management for denying us this basic union right.
- 1/4 UPDATE: This week, @propublica.org management informed a third bargaining unit member that they will be placed on a performance improvement plan and denied steward representation at the meeting where it is discussed. Our full statement 👇
- Three of our colleagues are being placed on PIPs today and @propublica.org management has refused to allow stewards in those meetings. We're not shutting up about this — our colleagues deserve better and we're extremely disappointed in management for denying us this basic union right.
- 1/4 UPDATE: This week, @propublica.org management informed a third bargaining unit member that they will be placed on a performance improvement plan and denied steward representation at the meeting where it is discussed. Our full statement 👇
- Reposted by Mollie Simon1/4 UPDATE: This week, @propublica.org management informed a third bargaining unit member that they will be placed on a performance improvement plan and denied steward representation at the meeting where it is discussed. Our full statement 👇
- Reposted by Mollie SimonA “We Buy Ugly Houses” former franchise owner is accused of orchestrating a yearslong Ponzi scheme, bilking tens of millions of dollars from investors. “It’s incalculable the amount of damage this guy did. He’s ruined some lives,” said one investor. www.propublica.org/article/home...
- “‘I never imagined the No. 1 franchisee with a fast-growing franchise company, HomeVestors,’ would defraud investors, he said.”
- Reposted by Mollie Simon1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇
- This story is enraging + heartbreaking...& hopeful about what research has the potential to do. The art is also...smashing. Please give this a read. My favorite line: "I’ve never been more scared of a spouse of a patient than I was of her.” www.propublica.org/article/revl...
- 110,000+... Imagine filling the University of Tennessee's Neyland Stadium...and then still needing more seats. That's how many lawsuits Advance Financial has filed against its borrowers. From @friedmanadam5.bsky.social for @tennesseelookout.com+ @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/flex...
- Reposted by Mollie SimonHave you been sued by Advance Financial, Harpeth Financial or another flex loan lender in Tennessee? The Tennessee Lookout and @propublica.org are continuing to report on flex loans. To share your experience, call or text reporter @friedmanadam5.bsky.social at 615-249-8509.
- NEW: A Tennessee lender told legislators its new product, the Flex Loan, would help residents. In the 10 years since getting approval for it, the company has sued over 110,000 borrowers. With @tennesseelookout.com
- Reposted by Mollie SimonI’m so proud to work with the incredibly talented journalists @propublica.org including the crew who put this important project together.
- Our “America’s Mental Barrier” series, which examines how insurance companies interfere with access to necessary mental health care across the United States, was also named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category: www.propublica.org/series/ameri... Via @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mollie SimonThe Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending business, even as other states did. @friedmanadam5.bsky.social @tennesseelookout.com
- Every day, I’m grateful for and proud of the amazing people I get to work with across ProPublica—and I’m eager for us to get to a contract that reflects the values that we all hold.
- Today, we issued a letter — signed by 70% of our unit — to @sengelberg.bsky.social and @robinsparkman.bsky.social asking them to uphold ProPublica’s values of fairness, transparency and accountability at the bargaining table.
- The fabulous @phoebepetrovic.bsky.social will be sharing her expertise tomorrow. You can sign up here:
- We also have a free, virtual event on 1/29 at 4pm CT where I'll discuss extremism reporting past, present & future: wisconsinwatch.org/2025/01/wisc...
- 📚"It was 'shocking how little oversight' the state was going to provide of her ESA-funded private school, Edwards said."
