ProPublica announced on Tuesday the hiring of two new journalists for its Midwest newsroom. Anna Clark and Jeremy Kohler will start on Jan. 11. “We are thrilled to have Anna and Jeremy join our Midwest newsroom,” said Louise Kiernan ProPublica Midwest editor. “Their deep knowledge of their communities and passion for investigative journalism will be great assets to our team.” Anna Clark is an independent journalist from Michigan who has written on subjects ranging from vacant prisons to failed dams to affordable housing, with a particular interest in how cities are made and unmade. She is the author of “The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy,” which won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal. Clark’s reporting and writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, the New Republic, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Detroit Free Press and Detour Detroit among other publications.