Marshall Undertaking hires Walter as employees author

The Marshall Undertaking, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit media group protecting felony justice, has employed Shoshana Walter as a brand new employees author.

Walter will work with editors and reporters to provide extra of The Marshall Undertaking’s signature investigations.

Walter joins The Marshall Undertaking from Reveal from the Heart for Investigative Reporting, the place she reported on the armed guard trade and trafficking on marijuana farms.

Her most up-to-date story, a partnership with The New York Instances Journal, discovered that 1000’s of ladies have been reported to baby protecting providers for taking prescribed medicines throughout being pregnant, and that authorities have taken newborns and positioned them in foster care.

“The Marshall Undertaking has a monitor report of manufacturing impactful, artfully-told journalism on one of the urgent problems with our time,” Walter mentioned. “I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of a newsroom that facilities marginalized voices and examines the felony justice system with the urgency it deserves.”

Beforehand, Walter was a felony justice reporter at The Bay Citizen, the place she chronicled extreme drive by police and racial inequities in arrests within the San Francisco space. As an evening shift cop reporter at The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida, she reported a story collection on a lethal after-school battle between two center schoolers — exposing the failures of the varsity district, and humanizing the 13-year-old charged as an grownup with homicide.

Her work has been honored with the Livingston Award for Nationwide Reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors medal, the Edward R. Murrow award and the Knight Award for Public Service, amongst others.

She is at the moment ending a e-book concerning the failures of America’s dependancy therapy system, to be printed subsequent 12 months by Simon & Schuster.

Her first day with The Marshall Undertaking shall be Oct. 2.