NEW YORK, Sept. 18 -- ProPublica, an independent nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2024: ProPublica announced Monday that reporter Amy Yurkanin is joining the newsroom's unit in the South. Yurkanin comes to the organization from Al.com, where she worked for almost 10 years, having covered health care, women's issues and criminal justice. In 2015, Yurkanin and former ProPublica reporter Nina Martin won the October Sidney Aw  more