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ProPublica
Who runs ProPublica, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest investigative journalism alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- revealnews.org
Measured from ProPublica’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ProPublica01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ProPublica
ProPublica propublica.org
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Wikidata: nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What ProPublica tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
3 of the 16 alternatives below have fewer, 9 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to ProPublica
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to ProPublica, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
We engage and empower the public through investigative journalism and groundbreaking storytelling that sparks action, improves lives and protects our democracy.
Very close - 02
Home – Center for Public Integrity
We are a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigating systems that contribute to inequality in our country.
Very close - 03 The Marshall Project themarshallproject.org
nonprofit, nonpartisan online journalism organization
Very close - 04
The Intercept
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Very close - 05
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ
The ICIJ is a global network of more than 290 investigative journalists in 105 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.
Very close - 06
Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism
American progressive magazine
Very close - 07
VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.
VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything from world news, travel, art, drugs, politics, sports, fashion, sex, and super cute animals.
Very close - 08
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Very close - 09
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Very close - 10
The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune covers politics and a range of policy issues that affect all Texans. Those topics include public and higher education, health and human services, demographics and voting rights, immigration and border security, criminal justice, energy, urban affairs, the environment, and transportation.
Very close - 11
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!
Very close - 12
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close - 13
FactCheck.org - A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center
Fact-checking website
Very close - 14
American nonprofit media organization
Very close - 15
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an international media organization headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, and Washington, D.C. RFE/RL’s mission is to promote democratic values by providing accurate, uncensored news and open debate in countries where a free press is threatened and disinformation is pervasive. RFE/RL reports in 24 languages to 18 countries, reaching nearly 50 million people every week. RFE/RL is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation funded by the U.S. Congress through a federal grant from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
Very close - 16
MinnPost — Nonprofit, independent journalism
MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.
Very close - 17
Science News | The latest news from all areas of science
Science News features news articles, videos and more about the latest scientific advances. Independent, accurate nonprofit news since 1921.
Very close - 18
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 19
international news agency
Very close - 20
American news publication
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles ProPublica’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones ProPublica uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ProPublica adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 19 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to ProPublica’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.0.8
- JavaScript frameworks
- React asset https://www.propublica.org/wp-includes/js/dist/vendor/react.min.js?ver=18.3.1.1
- Analytics
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631aedbe35471d-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.0.8)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms52164794
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.…
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1190.awsdns-20.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=KRxX3SVwEajBuo9tVFY4UX93RJGykoOj2Mwu5YB…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=SQ99tiVmP9pHCdEMJpCivQ
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=Wq9iztGUzQcBBi1OLrEOlXtefwOzX7yfvhbsw-…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=fMmhKvSb9hn3Zk41NHgEIaodFWBkEHS5FIg3UBZrwW4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=35f20bpg5z4pwh0ss771f0c438nhn7
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=HRPmIaKGZvbwOvMvVQ2HO6BQBmawIYvPzLcgmzYp
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Meta Business Suite 14/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- PHP 11/20
- WordPress 11/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- Apple Business · not on propublica.org 8/20
- jQuery · not on propublica.org 8/20
- Mailchimp · not on propublica.org 8/20
- nginx · not on propublica.org 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Parse.ly 7/20
- Salesforce 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on propublica.org 7/20