MARK OLALDE
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For about 20 years, we've been fighting for simple things, basic services. We will wait for electricity, water, sanitation and housing." - Lucky Ngobeni on why he organizes service delivery protests in Soweto, South Africa
Affiliations
​--Investigative Reporters and Editors
--​Society of Environmental Journalists
--Centre for Sustainability in Mining and Industry at the University of the Witwatersrand
--​Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism
--Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication


Reporting
United States
--ProPublica
--Investigations appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Arizona Republic, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Desert Sun, High Country News, the Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones, HuffPost, Grist and elsewhere.


Southern Africa
--Investigations appeared in the Mail & Guardian, Yale Environment 360, The Namibian, Inter Press Service, the Saturday Star, Climate Home News and elsewhere.

The Caribbean
--Reported on fossil fuels and agriculture from Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao and Dominica.


Awards and grants
​--SEAL Environmental Journalism Award, 2022; California News Publishers Association, four first place awards and various others, 2021 and 2020; Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, 2021 second place; 2020 Stokes Award; Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, 2020 silver medal; 2020 Front Page Awards, second place for labor reporting; part of a team that won the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and other awards; SAB Environmental Media Awards, 2017 print journalist of the year; Global Editors Network Data Journalism Awards, 2017 open data finalist; Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award, finalist

--Water Desk; McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism; Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources' Frank Allen Field Reporting Award; Fund for Investigative Journalism; Fund for Environmental Journalism; Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting


Education
--Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
--School of Communication at American University
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