Detroit bred. Chicago trained.

Tatiana Walk-Morris is a Chicago-based independent journalist and content writer. In May 2025, she and her former colleagues at the Investigative Project on Race and Equity won two Lisagor awards from the Chicago Headline Club for their reporting on banks that disproportionately denied Black homeowners home equity lines of credit and refinancing. The article, published in collaboration with Block Club Chicago, won in the Best Reporting on Race and Diversity (small and medium print/online) and Best Business Reporting (small and medium print/online) categories.

That same month, she also placed fourth in the California Journalism Awards in the Transportation Reporting category (division five) for an article she wrote for Capital & Main headlined “Drivers for Lyft and Uber Are Building a National Movement.”

She was one of the Summer 2023 recipients of the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism at the City University of New York. During the fellowship, she reported on the impact of prison payments and communications companies on prisoners and their loved ones, and published the resulting investigation in Prism.

Her reporting interests range across various beats, from business and tech to health and culture, with a bit of investigative reporting mixed in. But seriously, she’s a persistent, resourceful journalist who aims to cut through the noise and give people the information they truly need. Companies also commission her to spruce up their current content and craft fresh, captivating content to attract leads.

She has been featured in Columbia College Chicago's Journalism blog, the True Colors newsletter, and has spoken at DePaul University. She also runs The Freelance Beat, a blog for freelance journalists, and a Patreon newsletter featuring journalism jobs and gigs, as well as successful pitches.

Before earning her bachelor's degree in multimedia journalism at Columbia College Chicago, she grew up in Detroit, living in the city proper for much of her life before relocating to the nearby suburbs as a teenager. As a child, books and magazines were her portals into new worlds, so younger Tatiana would probably think it’s pretty cool that she became a full-time writer.