New York, N.Y.—September 6, 2011—SolveClimate News announced today that Susan White, formerly a senior editor at the investigative nonprofit ProPublica, will lead its newsroom in the newly created position of Executive Editor. Concurrent with her appointment, the news organization is changing its name to InsideClimate News, to better reflect the investigative mission it will pursue under her leadership.
White was the first senior editor hired by ProPublica when it started operating in 2008, and she helped edit the project that brought ProPublica its first Pulitzer Prize in 2010, about a New Orleans hospital stranded by flooding during Hurricane Katrina. In 2006, when she was working for The San Diego Union-Tribune, she was an editor on the Pulitzer Prize-winning reports that sent former U.S. Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison for bribery. She also edited a project on immigration that was a 2004 Pulitzer finalist.
“We’re thrilled that Susan is bringing her much-admired talent, experience and humanity here,” said David Sassoon, founder and publisher of InsideClimate News. “In conversations spanning many months, we found a strong fit, and we’re looking forward to making important contributions to the public understanding of energy and climate change, two of the defining issues of our time.”
White edited ProPublica’s coverage of natural gas drilling, which won a George Polk Award and other national honors. Two of the projects she edited for ProPublica are being honored with first place awards this year from the Society of Environmental Journalists. Prior to her three years at ProPublica, White was the Union-Tribune’s writing coach, U.S.-Mexico border editor and enterprise editor.
“I’m pleased to be taking what I learned at ProPublica and applying it to a growing organization like InsideClimate News,” White said. “People need clear, accurate and dispassionate information about climate change and other environmental issues, and our goal is to make sure they get it.”
InsideClimate News is an independent, nonprofit news organization that covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science—plus the territory in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped. Its mission is to produce clear, objective stories that give the public and decision-makers the information they need to navigate the heat and emotion of the climate and energy debate.
For more information contact:
David Sassoon at 917-749-6115, [email protected]
Susan White at 619-994-5498, [email protected]
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