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Max joins WNYC newsroom as public safety reporter

Samantha Max

WNYC has hired Samantha Max as a reporter on the public safety team, covering safety, policing and the justice system. She joins from Nashville Public Radio, where she was a criminal justice reporter at WPLN-FM 90.3.

Max also served as a health and inequity reporter at The Telegraph in Macon, Ga. as one of the first 13 journalists hired by Report for America. She has at Hoy, the Chicago Tribune’s Spanish edition and Northwestern University’s investigative reporting center.

She was also an intern at WYPR-FM 88.1, a public radio station in Baltimore.

Max is a Northwestern University graduate.

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