Susanne Rust (born Briarcliff Manor, New York) is an American investigative journalist. She graduated from Barnard College with a bachelor's degree, from University of Wisconsin–Madison, with an MS in 1999. In 2003, she started as a science reporter at the ''

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where it is the primary newspaper. It is also the largest newspaper in the state of Wisconsin, where it is widely distributed. It is currently o ...

''. She with Meg Kissinger investigated

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. She was a John S. Knight Fellow at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. Rust currently works at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the Energy and Environment Reporting Project. She was an environmental reporter at

California Watch California Watch, part of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, began producing stories in 2009. The official launch of the California Watch website took place in January 2010. The team was best known for producing well researched and w ...

, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting until 2014.

Awards

* 2009

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded since 1953, under one name or another, for a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series in a U.S. news publicat ...

finalist * 2008 George Polk Award * 2008 John B. Oakes award for distinguished environmental reporting * Scripps Howard National Journalism award * 2009 Grantham award of special merit

Bibliography

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References

External links

Journalist's Twitter
a series of articles from ''Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel'', to many of which Rust contributed.

''Bill Moyers' Journal''

May 23, 2008
"A talk with BPA muckraker Susanne Rust"
''MSU'', April 7, 2009
2009 Grantham Prize Award Presentation to Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger Part 1 of 2
Living people American women journalists Barnard College alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication alumni George Polk Award recipients Year of birth missing (living people) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel people People from Briarcliff Manor, New York Discover (magazine) people 21st-century American women {{US-journalist-20thC-stub