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Max Blau

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Investigative reporter with @ProPublica's South bureau, covering health care, public health, and the environment. Find me at maxblau.bsky.social/

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Max Blau’s Biography

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I’m an Atlanta-based journalist who writes narrative and investigative stories for newspapers, magazines, and digital media outlets. My reporting has been featured on NPR, Vox, and Kaiser Health News, recognized by Longform and Long Reads, and won several awards.

Before becoming a freelance journalist, I worked as a southern correspondent for STAT, the Boston Globe Media's national health and life sciences website, where I wrote stories that involved patients and medical practitioners. It was a…

Max Blau’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Redemptive Love of Chiliquila Ogletree

The Redemptive Love of Chiliquila Ogletree

At the top of Atlanta’s Sunset Avenue, the street once home to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., you’ll fi…

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A 41-day fight to get treatment ends in a daughter's overdose

A 41-day fight to get treatment ends in a daughter's overdose

Taylor Wilson’s parents fought for 41 days to get their daughter treatment. They couldn’t stop another overdo…

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Exile on Peachtree Street

Exile on Peachtree Street

Anita Beaty's three-decade battle to serve Atlanta's homeless population her way finally draws to an end. Oly…

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Heroin: The scarring of the next generation

Heroin: The scarring of the next generation

Heroin's shattering force hit Huntington, WV, in a span of 5 hours 28 overdoses, 2 deaths. Here is the story …

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The Story of How Lean Became Hip Hop's Heroin

The Story of How Lean Became Hip Hop's Heroin

The nation’s sizzurp problem has forced some artists, including OG Maco, to rethink their use of the drug alt…

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Unanswered

Unanswered

Metro Atlanta police officers have fatally shot at least 75 people since 2010. In some cases the use of deadl…

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Articles

A U.S. Senate candidate says foreign truckers are making America’s roads unsafe. His own truckers have caused harm

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By Max Blau Verified, Joel Jacobs
| Chattanooga Times Free Press Verified
A Georgia congressman running for one of the country's most competitive U.S. Senate seats has vowed in social media posts and interviews to make America's roads safer -- by taking commercial driver's licenses away from noncitizens. "If you can't read English road signs," Mike Collins, a Republican, posted on Facebook in April, "you don't belong behind the wheel.
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A Georgia U.S. Senate candidate says foreign truckers are making America’s roads unsafe. His own truckers have caused harm.

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By Max Blau Verified, Joel Jacobs, Susan Catron
| Coastal Navigator
A Georgia congressman running for one of the country’s most competitive U.S. Senate seats has vowed in social media posts and interviews to make America’s roads safer — by taking commercial driver’s licenses away from noncitizens. “If you can’t read English road signs,” Mike Collins, a Republican, posted on Facebook in April, “you don’t belong behind the wheel.
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By Max Blau Verified, Joel Jacobs
| Coastal Navigator
Mike Collins, a congressman from Georgia, wants to take away commercial driver’s licenses from noncitizens. Over the past 25 years, truckers for his businesses have been involved in crashes that killed five people and injured more than 50 people.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Intern for Performer Magazine!

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No.

How is social media changing news?

How isn't it?