Sabrina Shankman
Reporter, Maine
Sabrina Shankman is a reporter for InsideClimate News focusing on the Arctic. She joined InsideClimate in the fall of 2013, after helping produce documentaries and interactives for the PBS show “Frontline” since 2010 with 2over10 Media. She worked as a co-producer, field producer or associate producer on the Frontline films League of Denial (2013); Money, Power and Wall Street (2012); A Perfect Terrorist (2011); Dr. Hotspots (2011) and Law and Disorder (2010). In 2012, she produced the online interactive A Perfect Terrorist: David Coleman Headley’s Web of Betrayal, which won an Overseas Press Club of America award. She is the author of Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World. She has also reported for ProPublica, the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press. Her work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists, and she was named a finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists in 2010 and again in 2015. Shankman has a Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy
By Sabrina Shankman, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
How the Trump Administration’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council
By Sabrina Shankman
Trump Administration Offers Drilling Leases in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, but No Major Oil Firms Bid
By Sabrina Shankman
As Biden Eyes a Conservation Plan, Activists Fear Low-Income Communities and People of Color Could Be Left Out
By Sabrina Shankman
Warming Trends: The ‘Cranky Uncle’ Game, Good News About Bowheads and Steps to a Speedier Energy Transition
By Kristoffer Tigue, Katelyn Weisbrod, Sabrina Shankman
Not Waiting for Public Comment, Trump Administration Schedules Lease Sale for Arctic Wildlife Refuge
By Sabrina Shankman
In Maine, Many Voters Defied the Polls and Split Their Tickets
By Sabrina Shankman
Trump's Interior Department Pressures Employees to Approve Seismic Testing in ANWR
By Sabrina Shankman
Senate 2020: In Alaska, a Controversy Over an Embattled Mine Has Tightened the Race
By Sabrina Shankman
States Are Doing What Big Government Won’t to Stop Climate Change, and Want Stimulus Funds to Help
By Evelyn Nieves, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Sabrina Shankman
What Has Trump Done to Alaska? Not as Much as He Wanted To
By Sabrina Shankman
Trump Plan Would Open Huge Area of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to Drilling
By Sabrina Shankman
Fuzzy Math: How Do You Calculate Emissions From a Storage Tank When The Numbers Don’t Add Up?
By Sabrina Shankman
‘Mom, are We Going to Die?’ How to Talk to Kids About Hard Things Like Covid-19 and Climate Change
By Sabrina Shankman
In Alaska’s North, Covid-19 Has Not Stopped the Trump Administration’s Quest to Drill for Oil
By Sabrina Shankman
Parents Become Activists in the Fight over South Portland’s Petroleum Tanks
By Sabrina Shankman
