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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The Tennessee Supreme Court weighed a potential path forward for the nearly 200 people serving life sentences for crimes they committed as teens at a…
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The state Supreme Court is considering a case that could pave the way for nearly 200 people to be released from prison for crimes they committed as…
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Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are looking into a shooting by a police officer Wednesday afternoon.Metro Nashville Police confirmed the…
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Legal Experts Question Why Police Never Sought A Search Warrant After Warning About Nashville BomberOn Aug. 21, 2019, attorney Raymond Throckmorton called 911. He said a client in South Nashville was threatening to take her life.“She has also given me…
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Nashville police were warned last year that Christmas Day bomber Anthony Warner was building an explosive device. Previously, authorities had said Warner was unknown to them.
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Officials have shied away from calling the Christmas Day bombing an act of domestic terrorism while they continue to investigate potential motives. And…
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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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More than a dozen minority employees of Nashville’s police department tell WPLN News they feel they’ve faced unequal treatment, and in at least one recent…
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The head of Tennessee’s prison system says the number of unfilled correctional officer positions has reached an “all-time high.”Many facilities were…
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Hundreds of students and alumni of Belmont University are calling for major changes ahead of the presidential debate on the school’s campus this…