Hanna Krueger is a Pulitzer finalist and Spotlight investigative reporter at the Boston Globe. She is constantly exploring uses for open-source investigative techniques and cutting-edge AI tools, aiming to find ways to implement these new technologies to enhance and sustain the field of journalism. She’s reported on a globetrotting murderer, far-right extremism, police misconduct and a Russian arms smuggling ring. In 2024, she was a lead reporter on a multi-part series exposing how financial mismanagement, unchecked greed and lax oversight led to the downfall of Steward Health Care and the endangerment of hundreds of its patients.
Awards & Recognitions
Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Public Service
Part of the investigative team named a finalist for the public service award for our “sweeping coverage of the financial mismanagement of a major hospital chain, exposing how corporate malfeasance, personal greed and government neglect led to compromised care and deaths.”
2025 Kiplinger Fellow
One of two dozen journalists from across the globe selected to be a part of the 2025 Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio University, a weeklong intensive course on the use of AI in journalism
2025 Scripps Howard Award Winner for Business Reporting
Part of the investigative team that "uncovered financial mismanagement at a global hospital chain, revealing the immense human cost of corporate neglect and the government’s failure to stop it." The work was also a finalist for the foundation's prestigious "Impact Award."
2025 Goldsmith Prize Semifinalist for Investigative Reporting
Part of the investigative team recognized as a semifinalist for this prestigious award for a months-long investigation into the failures of the for-profit healthcare chain Steward Health Care
2025 Gerald Loeb Award Winner
Part of the investigative team recognized as the winner of the local category for this prestigious business journalism award for a months-long investigation into the failures of the for-profit healthcare chain Steward Health Care
2025 Best in Business SABEW Awards
Part of the investigative team that won the investigation category of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing’s annual Best in Business awards for a months-long investigation into the failures of the for-profit healthcare chain Steward Health Care. Judges applauded how the “aggressive, skilled journalists of Globe Spotlight Team and OCCRP unwrapped evil deeds of Steward Health… Amazing thoroughness and a sea of well-chosen interviews blazed the trail to a grand jury probe and new laws in financial transparency.”
Featured Stories
February 11, 2025
Feature
Inside the Zizians, a radical California-based vegan cult now linked to 6 violent deaths
After a border agent was killed in Vermont, this bizarre tale of extremism, delusion, and violence emerged. With details that feel hatched by a far-right meme factory and lead characters that espouse rational thinking but leave a senseless path of violence in their wake, this story of a circle of whiz kids turned bad is both hypnotic and haunting.
Outcomes: Since this article was published, three of the Zizzians, including Ziz herself, have been arrested.
October 29, 2025
Investigation
The DEA said it arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. The roundup really included the homeless and drug addicted.
“We’re the DEA,” said the top DEA agent after the arrests. “We’re not going after low-level retail drug traffickers.”
A Globe Spotlight Team investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets in New England were precisely the people Forget said they were not: addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and people living at a homeless encampment.
March 20, 2024
Feature
For years, no one noticed body parts disappearing from Harvard’s morgue. Then came a phone call.
A tip would blow open the doors to a dark but not-so-secret nationwide network, leading investigators into the Harvard morgue and a gruesome American market.
August 3, 2023
Investigation
This New England neo-Nazi group is getting bigger and scarier, experts say. Most troubling: Military vets fill its ranks.
The children were crafting Christmas tree ornaments when the neo-Nazis arrived. As the tiny hands fastened gems with glue guns, the angry mob outside jabbed theirs into the air, brandishing the “Heil Hitler” salute. Among them? Former members of the United States military.
March 20, 2023
Feature
The Problem with the French King Bridge
For years, locals have described the Franklin County bridge as a “loaded gun” for people in crisis. Why did it take so long to get suicide-prevention barriers installed?
Outcome: Since this article was published, the suicide barriers on the French King Bridge have been completed. There were 0 suicides at the bridge in 2024.
August 3, 2024
Investigation
Steward Health Care spent millions on surveillance of its critics — as its hospitals went bankrupt.
As Steward failed to pay vendors in many of its three dozen or so hospitals, its executives spent millions to surveil critics, going as far as trailing one man to his daughter's elementary school.
Outcome: Resulted in a FCPA and DOJ investigation into Steward Health Care and legislative reforms into private equity's role in healthcare.
September 10, 2021
Feature
Killed overseas, haunted at home, forever at war after 9/11
In 2002, a casket arrived on the tarmac of Bradley International Airport carrying the body of this 24-year-old chef who’d been deployed to Iraq just six months earlier. He was the 374th American killed in the sprawling wars launched after 9/11.
His is a story about what happened after the towers fell, when history and happenstance collided to shatter lives, and how a forever war never truly ends for those who make it back alive.
December 31, 2024
Investigation
Turning patients into profit: How Steward embodies the risk of private equity’s push in American health care.
The story tells a cautionary tale about what happens when a wannabe billionaire, a titan of private equity, and a real estate investment trust become stewards of a public necessity.
Outcome: This article and its accompanying series resulted in a FCPA and DOJ investigation into Steward Health Care and legislative reforms into private equity's role in healthcare.
January 23, 2021
Feature
Two patients, one week in the hospital, and a world of change
A dispatch from a COVID-19 ward inside a VA hospital revealed a haunting dissonance between how the world experienced the pandemic. As hundreds were staging an insurrection on Capital Hill, two veterans were fighting a battle for their lives.
June 14, 2022
Feature
Inside the final days of the Pink House
For three days in the summer of 2022, I witnessed the effect of the Roe v. Wade decision ripple through the abortion clinic at the center of the seminal Supreme Court case. The story recounts the impact through the eyes of women who had driven hours to arrive at the clinic, one of the few left -- at the time -- in the entire southeast.
