This project was done by ProPublica, the nonprofit reporting outfit where I work. There's more from the same investigation at http://www.propublica.org/dialysis including a leaked P.R. plan drawn up by an industry group to respond to our investigation -- and there's lots more to come in the next few weeks.
what's it like working at ProPublica, and what do you do there? I've liked everything i've ever read/heard that's been produced there, and i know they've got good taste in terms of the journalists they poach from other orgs.
Thanks for the kind words about ProPublica. It's exciting to be around so many talented journalists and to get to work on great projects with them.
I run a small team (five of us) of developer/journalists. We're in a new-ish field of journalism called "news applications." Essentially it means we make software instead of using words or pictures to tell journalistic stories. There are crews like ours (some bigger, some smaller) at the New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Guardian in the U.K., and elsewhere.
