The following excerpt was sent out from The Marshall Project:
Shoshana Walter
The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit media organization covering criminal justice, has hired Shoshana Walter as a new staff writer.
Walter will work with editors and reporters to produce more of The Marshall Project’s signature investigations.
Walter joins The Marshall Project from Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, where she reported on the armed guard industry and trafficking on marijuana farms.
Her most recent story, a partnership with The New York Times Magazine, found that thousands of women have been reported to child protective services for taking prescribed medications during pregnancy, and that authorities have taken newborns and placed them in foster care.
“The Marshall Project has a track record of producing impactful, artfully-told journalism on one of the most pressing issues of our time,” Walter said. “I am thrilled to be joining a newsroom that centers marginalized voices and examines the criminal justice system with the urgency it deserves.”
Previously, Walter was a criminal justice reporter at The Bay Citizen, where she chronicled excessive force by police and racial inequities in arrests in the San Francisco area. As a night shift cop reporter at The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida, she reported a narrative series on a deadly after-school fight between two middle schoolers — exposing the failures of the school district, and humanizing the 13-year-old charged as an adult with murder.
Her work has been honored with the Livingston Award for National Reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors medal, the Edward R. Murrow award and the Knight Award for Public Service, among others.
She is currently finishing a book about the failures of America’s addiction treatment system, to be published next year by Simon & Schuster.
Her first day with The Marshall Project will be Oct. 2.