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Sheila KaplanFellowSheila Kaplan is a prize-winning investigative reporter and television producer whose reporting focuses on the environment, public health and the role of money in politics. She is a lecturer in political reporting at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Republic, Discover, The Nation, Salon, Legal Times, The Washington Monthly and U.S. News & World Report, among other publications. She has produced investigative reports for ABC News, NBC News, MSNBC, Dan Rather Reports and the PBS series FRONTLINE. In 2008, Kaplan reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had suppressed an internal document showing that millions of Great Lakes residents were at risk of serious illness from environmental contaminants. Her investigation, funded by The Nation Institute, led to two congressional hearings and was referenced by more than 20 newspapers and radio stations. A 2001-02 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, Kaplan has won numerous other journalism honors, among them the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Prize for Distinguished Reporting, The Lowell Mellett Award for Media Criticism (now called the Bart Richards Prize), a Screenwriters Guild nomination and several national Emmy nominations. She is at work on a book exploring how hazardous chemicals can alter the structure of the developing brain. A native of New York City, Kaplan earned a B.A. at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She divides her time between Washington, D.C. and Northern California.
Selected Articles and Appearances: Toxic Sand: Another Enemy in Afghanistan? The poison crib: When protective chemicals harm EPA Staffers Were Forced to Ignore Science, Investigation Finds Sapping the Superfund EPA: On Nanoparticle Safety, We Know Nothing Northern Exposure Great Lakes: Danger Zones? FEMA covered up cancer risks to Katrina victims |
The Great American StickupHow Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street
"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal. Check out Scheer's book tour! MoreMarfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa: Politics and Culture of the Borderundef 0 | Marfa, Texas See acclaimed Nation Books authors Charles Bowden and Mark Danner speak at Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of the Border, three days of art, film, music, and literature. Presented by Ballroom Marfa and The Washington Spectator, in collaboration with The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.
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