Awards and Recognition
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The Columbia Journalism Review featured a community engagement project I did with Southerly Magazine on air pollution from the Bristol, Virginia, landfill and its impacts on residents.
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2021 Investigative Reporters & Editors Gary Marx scholarship to attend 2021 IRE Conference
Virginia Press Association News & Advertising Contest
2021
First place in news division for science and environmental writing
2020
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Best in show for daily writing, for a piece on a hospital chaplain's work with COVID-19 patients during the 2020-21 winter surge. Judges' note: "Powerful writing, combined with courageous reporting in uncertain, anxious times. [This paper's] readers were taken behind closed doors and shown one of the most tragic aspects of the pandemic."
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First place in news division for:
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In-depth/investigative reporting
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Science and environmental writing
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Feature story writing
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Shared with colleagues: Best in show for daily graphics, illustration and art; first place in news division for combination picture and story
2021 Tennessee Press Association State Press Contest
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First place in news division for investigative reporting and best single feature
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Shared with colleagues: first place in news division for coronavirus features coverage