FIJ grantee Max Blau’s story detailing how Georgia’s former death row doctor built a for-profit empire by providing low-cost medical care to inmates recently won a first place Green Eyeshade Award for investigative reporting in magazines.
“I’m thankful for the support of Atlanta Magazine and the Telegraph in Macon, which co-published the series, along with grants from the Association of Health Care Journalists, The Commonwealth Fund, and the Fund for Investigative Journalism,” Blau wrote in an email to FIJ. “I’m also grateful for Steve Fennessy’s editing, and reporting contributions from Margaret Pfohl and Jade Abdul-Malik.”