Samantha Max
Samantha Max covers criminal justice for WPLN and joins the newroom through the Report for America program. This is her second year with Report for America: She spent her first year in Macon, Ga., covering health and inequity for The Telegraph and macon.com.
Previously, she was an investigative reporting intern for the Medill Justice Project and a bilingual multimedia news intern at Hoy, Chicago Tribune’s Spanish-language daily. She returned to her hometown of Baltimore in 2015 and again in 2016 to work as a newsroom intern for NPR-affiliate WYPR.
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Nashville police academy graduates are overwhelmingly white and male. A new recruitment approach that stresses real world scenarios over militaristic courses promises more diversity.
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Torrential rains in Tennessee have left roads impassable. It was one of the highest rainfalls in Nashville's history. Rivers and creeks crested so high that homes and roads brimmed with water.
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A Memphis judge has ruled that new DNA testing results do not prove the innocence of a Tennessee man on death row. Pervis Payne’s DNA was located on...
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Two days after an explosion rocked downtown Nashville, residents are reeling from what their mayor called the city's "hardest year ever."
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The state of Tennessee will not execute Pervis Payne next month, as planned. Gov. Bill Lee announced Friday that he is a postponing Payne’s execution...
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A new national report on racial disparities in the death penalty explores two high-profile cases that are winding their way through the courts here in...
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Eyeglasses. A bloody tampon. A towel. A knife. These are just a few of the items investigators found in Charisse Christopher’s kitchen after she and her...
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A Tennessee man who is scheduled for execution this December is asking the state to give him one more chance to prove his innocence. Pervis Payne was...
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Conditions at the Bledsoe County Correctional Complex have left medical and correctional staff in a bind. If more personnel walk of the job, the state may be forced to call in the National Guard.
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Tennessee Abortion Rights Groups File Emergency Lawsuit To Keep Procedures Going During The PandemicAdvocates filed an emergency lawsuit in Tennessee this morning, urging the courts to allow women to get abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The...