''Inside Climate News'' is a

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news organization, focusing on

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.Curtis Brainard
InsideClimate wins a Pulitzer
''Columbia Journalism Review'' (April 16, 2013). The publication writes that it "covers

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, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science—plus the territory in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped."About Inside Climate News
Inside Climate News. Retrieved May 10, 2017. Established in 2007, the

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-based website covers environmental issues. In 2013 three of its staff members won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the Kalamazoo River oil spill in Michigan.

History

The website was co-founded in 2007 by publisher David Sassoon and executive editor Stacy Feldman. Originally called ''SolveClimate News'', it adopted its current name "to counter the perception that it was an environmental advocacy organization." As a non-profit journalism outlet, ''Inside Climate News''s model is similar to that of

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and the

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, which have similarly gained recognition. Brian Stelter
A Pulitzer Prize, but Without a Newsroom to Put It In
''New York Times'' (April 16, 2013). Like the other two organizations, ''Inside Climate News'' publishes its content for free on the Web, collaborates with for-profit news organizations that republish some of the nonprofit's work with credit, and aims "to tackle topics that bigger, better-known news organizations are not equipped or inclined to do." As of February 2018, Inside Climate News had a staff of 18, including 7 full-time reporters.

Awards

Three ''Inside Climate News'' reporters— Elizabeth McGowan,

Lisa Song Lisa Song is an American journalist and author. She won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, with David Hasemyer and Elizabeth McGowan, for their report on the Kalamazoo River oil spill. She works for ''ProPublica'', reporting on the ...

, and David Hasemyer—won the 2013

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for their series of "rigorous reports" on the

Kalamazoo River oil spill The Kalamazoo River oil spill occurred in July 2010 when a pipeline operated by Enbridge (Line 6B) burst and flowed into Talmadge Creek, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. A break in the pipeline resulted in one of the largest inland oil spill ...

Michigan Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and ...

, in which an

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oil pipeline spill led to the costliest onshore oil spill in American history.The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: National Reporting
The Pulitzer Prizes. With short biographies, reprints of 11 works (''InsideClimate News'' stories June 26 to December 27, 2012), and formal entry for the prize. The Pulitzer citation praised the reporters for exporting the aftermath of the 2010-2012 oil spill and "flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by

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(or 'dilbit'), a controversial form of oil."Haughney, Christine (April 16, 2013)
Times Wins Four Pulitzers; Brooklyn Nonprofit Is Awarded a Reporting Prize
''

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'', p. A19. In April 2016, ''Inside Climate News'' was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for the 2015 ''Exxon: The Road Not Taken'' series. ''Inside Climate News'' was awarded a 2015 Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism by the Society of Professional Journalists for the informational graphics in the ''Exxon: The Road Not Taken'' series, which "provide a visual timeline of Exxon's views and efforts on climate change since the 1970s, and evidence of its uncertainty campaigns in the 1990s and 2000s." The

White House Correspondents Association The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is an organization of journalists who cover the White House and the president of the United States. The WHCA was founded on February 25, 1914, by journalists in response to an unfounded rumor t ...

awarded ''Inside Climate News'' a share in the 2016

Edgar A. Poe Award The Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award is a prize for journalistic excellence that is awarded by the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). The prize, which paid $2500 in 2011, is funded by the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' in honor of its distin ...

, which annually honors "excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance, written with fairness and objectivity," for the ''Exxon: The Road Not Taken'' series.

References

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External links

Inside Climate News web site
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