Award-winning journalist, producer and editor Christine Spolar has joined Inside Climate News as associate publisher, a newly created position, after working for over a year as an editor in the newsroom.
Spolar will be responsible for strengthening fundraising, helping to lead ICN’s growing development team and overseeing special projects.
“It’s a privilege to be working with Christine to extend the reach and impact of our independent journalism in the most consequential of times,” said David Sassoon, founder and publisher of Inside Climate News. “She brings a lifetime of achievement, a natural talent for the job and a deep appreciation of what’s at stake.”
Spolar was a writer at The Washington Post for 14 years on the foreign, investigative, national and metro staffs. She was the investigations editor of the Financial Times, executive editor of KFF Health News, a producer at 60 Minutes II and international business editor of The New York Times, among other positions in a long and distinguished career.
“Inside Climate News is providing deep and knowledgeable reports on climate risk and environmental protections at a critical time,” Spolar said. “Its reporters and editors offer thoughtful, fact-based accounts to help communities understand what is happening and why. Their work is inspiring—and I hope to help them do more.”
Spolar’s work has won recognition from the British Press, Overseas Press, the Emmy awards and Investigative Reporters and Editors, among others. She has covered wars in Iraq and Bosnia, and reported from Jerusalem, Cairo, Warsaw, Rome, Sarajevo, Riyadh, Tehran, and Washington, D.C. She has managed newsrooms in the U.S., U.K. and Japan. She also taught journalism at Georgetown and American universities and at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
“I go back with Christine to The Washington Post of the 1990s, when she was off covering wars and I was writing about city hall and then national security,” said Vernon Loeb, ICN’s executive editor. “We’ve both spent a lot of time in some of the world’s great newsrooms, and to be working with her at ICN, covering the most important story on the planet, feels special to me right now. Having done everything she has in journalism, Christine has proven yet again that she’s up for any challenge as our associate publisher.”
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