Award-winning journalist Jenny Deam has joined the rising workforce of The Gazette as an investigative reporter.
Deam involves The Gazette from ProPublica, the place she labored as a nationwide investigative well being care reporter based mostly in Washington, D.C. Her hiring brings her again to a state she is aware of nicely, having labored beforehand for The Denver Submit and as a particular correspondent for the Los Angeles Instances, masking Colorado and the area.
Earlier than ProPublica, Deam wrote about well being care fraud, hospital billing and the insurance coverage trade on the Houston Chronicle.
Deam is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award. She additionally was a part of a workforce that turned a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking information in 2018 for Hurricane Harvey protection.
In 2020, she acquired third place in a contest for Texas reporter of the yr and first place for enterprise reporting from the Related Press Managing Editors contest. In 2018, she received first place for enterprise reporting from the Related Press Managing Editors contest. In 2017, she received a primary place for specialty writing from the Related Press Managing Editors contest and two second locations in that contest for characteristic sequence and enterprise reporting.
In 2017 she acquired a 3rd place in medical and science writing from the Nationwide Headliners Award.
She additionally has reported for the St. Petersburg Instances and The Kansas Metropolis Star.
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