About

Shoshana Walter is the award-winning author of Rehab: An American Scandal, and an investigative reporter for The Marshall Project, where she covers the criminal justice and child welfare systems. Her reporting has won dozens of national journalism awards, including the IRE medal, the Livingston Award, the Knight Award for Public Service, and two Edward R. Murrow awards, among others. Her reporting has also been recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Emmy Awards, and the National Magazine Awards.

She was the lead reporter-producer on the popular investigative podcast American Rehab and has investigated everything from erroneous hospital drug testing, to armed guards who kill with impunity, to sexual exploitation in the marijuana industry. Her reporting has prompted criminal and congressional probes and new laws, and has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, on NPR, on CNN and in newspapers across the country.

She was previously a senior reporter and producer at The Center for Investigative Reporting and got her start at The Ledger, in Lakeland, Florida. She lives with her family in Oakland, California.

Shoshana has received dozens of national journalism honors, among them:

Goldsmith Awards, Finalist, 2025.

Best Investigative Journalism Award, Institute for Nonprofit News, Winner, 2025.

American Society of Magazine Editors, Finalist, 2025 and 2021.

Association of Healthcare Journalists, Winner, 2025.

Online Journalism Awards, Excellence in Social Justice Reporting, Finalist, 2024.

Gerald Loeb Award, Winner, 2021.

Watchdog Writers Group Fellowship, 2021 and 2022.

Edward R. Murrow Award, Winner, 2021 and 2018.

IRE Medal, Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, 2020.

Audio reporting (Large), Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, 2020.

Emmy Awards, Finalist, 2020.

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, Finalist, 2018.

Knight Award for Public Service, Winner, Online News Association, 2018.

Sigma Delta Chi Award, investigative and non-deadline reporting, Winner, 2018 and 2009.

Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, Finalist, 2018.

Livingston Award for Young Journalists for National Reporting, Winner, 2015; and Finalist, 2018, 2019.

Gold Medal for Public Service, Florida Society of News Editors, 2009.