Award-winning journalist Jenny Deam has joined the growing team of The Gazette as an investigative reporter.
Deam comes to The Gazette from ProPublica, where she worked as a national investigative health care reporter based in Washington, D.C. Her hiring brings her back to a state she knows well, having worked previously for The Denver Post and as a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, covering Colorado and the region.
Before ProPublica, Deam wrote about health care fraud, hospital billing and the insurance industry at the Houston Chronicle.
Deam is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award. She also was part of a team that became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2018 for Hurricane Harvey coverage.
In 2020, she received third place in a contest for Texas reporter of the year and first place for business reporting from the Associated Press Managing Editors contest. In 2018, she won first place for business reporting from the Associated Press Managing Editors contest. In 2017, she won a first place for specialty writing from the Associated Press Managing Editors contest and two second places in that contest for feature series and business reporting.
In 2017 she received a third place in medical and science writing from the National Headliners Award.
She also has reported for the St. Petersburg Times and The Kansas City Star.