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
--Desert Sun NewsGuild
Education
--Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, bachelor's in journalism
--School of Communication at American University, master's in journalism
Experience
United States
--ProPublica, Center for Public Integrity, USA Today, The Arizona Republic, The Desert Sun
Southern Africa
--Freelance investigations into mining and other environmental topics in South Africa and Malawi that appeared in the Mail & Guardian, Yale Environment 360, The Namibian, Inter Press Service, The Star, Climate Home News and others.
The Caribbean
--Reported on fossil fuels and agriculture from Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao and Dominica.
Awards and grants
--2020 Stokes Award; Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, 2020 silver medal; California News Publishers Association, three 2020 first place awards; 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
--McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism; Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources' Frank Allen Field Reporting Award; Fund for Investigative Journalism grant; Fund for Environmental Journalism grant; Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant; Eric Lund Global Reporting and Research Grant
--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
--Desert Sun NewsGuild
Education
--Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, bachelor's in journalism
--School of Communication at American University, master's in journalism
Experience
United States
--ProPublica, Center for Public Integrity, USA Today, The Arizona Republic, The Desert Sun
Southern Africa
--Freelance investigations into mining and other environmental topics in South Africa and Malawi that appeared in the Mail & Guardian, Yale Environment 360, The Namibian, Inter Press Service, The Star, Climate Home News and others.
The Caribbean
--Reported on fossil fuels and agriculture from Trinidad and Tobago, Curaçao and Dominica.
Awards and grants
--2020 Stokes Award; Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, 2020 silver medal; California News Publishers Association, three 2020 first place awards; 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
--McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism; Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources' Frank Allen Field Reporting Award; Fund for Investigative Journalism grant; Fund for Environmental Journalism grant; Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant; Eric Lund Global Reporting and Research Grant
