Finalist: Annie Waldman, Duaa Eldeib, Max Blau and Maya Miller of ProPublica

Annie Waldman is a health care reporter for ProPublica. She joined ProPublica in 2014, after graduating from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and School of International and Public Affairs. Waldman was part of the team of reporters that was a Pulitzer finalist in 2018 for its reporting on maternal mortality. Before joining ProPublica, she was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a residency at Cité International des Arts. She has produced two documentary films, which premiered at the Sundance and Tribeca film festivals.
 

Duaa Eldeib is an investigative reporter at ProPublica. She has examined failures that have led to a stillbirth crisis in the U.S., the fatal consequences of delaying care during the pandemic and the plight of hundreds of children trapped in psychiatric hospitals. Her work has sparked legislative hearings and governmental reforms, and it has led to the release of young men incarcerated as juveniles and the exoneration of a mother who was convicted of murdering her son. Her series on stillbirths was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. Before joining ProPublica, she worked at the Chicago Tribune, where she and two colleagues were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. She graduated from the University of Missouri with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and psychology and received her master’s in public policy from Northwestern University.
 

Max Blau is a reporter with ProPublica’s South unit, covering health care, public health and the environment. Before ProPublica, Blau was an independent journalist who published stories in a variety of publications, including the Atavist, The Atlantic, STAT and Time. He had worked as a staff writer for CNN, Atlanta magazine and the Atlanta alt-weekly Creative Loafing. He also co-founded Canopy Atlanta, a local news organization that pays and trains community members to become journalists.
 

Maya Miller is an engagement reporter at ProPublica working on community-sourced investigations. She’s collaborated across and beyond the newsroom on series about aggressive medical debt collection practices, housing and evictions, as well as toxic air pollution and health. The impact of her reporting includes a national doctors’ group announcing it would stop suing patients for medical debt, state legislators introducing a bill to repeal a criminal eviction statute, as well as federal lawmakers and officials promising investigations and reforms.