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'''Ken Ward Jr.''' is a staff reporter for the ''[[Charleston Gazette]]'', who has been nationally recognized for his writing |
'''Ken Ward Jr.''' is a staff reporter for the ''[[Charleston Gazette]]'', who has been nationally recognized for his writing about the coal mining industry and its impacts of Appalachian communities. He is chairman of the [[Society of Environmental Journalists]] First Amendment Task Force, founded in 2002 "to address freedom-of-information, right-to-know, and other news gathering issues of concern to the pursuit of environmental journalism."<ref>{{cite web | title=SEJ First Amendment task force | work=Society of Environmental Journalists website | url=http://www.sej.org/foia/index6.htm | accessdate=2006-05-16}}</ref> |
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==Personal== |
==Personal== |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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He began working at the Charleston Gazette in 1991. His work |
He began working at the Charleston Gazette in 1991. His work has focused on mine safety, environmental and labor issues. He has covered the Sago and the Upper Big Branch mine disasters that killed 29 West Virgnia coal miners. |
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==Honors and awards== |
==Honors and awards== |
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Revision as of 03:48, 12 November 2017
Ken Ward Jr. is a staff reporter for the Charleston Gazette, who has been nationally recognized for his writing about the coal mining industry and its impacts of Appalachian communities. He is chairman of the Society of Environmental Journalists First Amendment Task Force, founded in 2002 "to address freedom-of-information, right-to-know, and other news gathering issues of concern to the pursuit of environmental journalism."[1]
Personal
Ward is a native of Mineral County, West Virginia. He obtained his degree from West Virginia University.[2]
Career
He began working at the Charleston Gazette in 1991. His work has focused on mine safety, environmental and labor issues. He has covered the Sago and the Upper Big Branch mine disasters that killed 29 West Virgnia coal miners.
Honors and awards
Ward won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship[3] in 2006 to research and write about mining deaths in the coal industry. He is also a three-time winner of the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward J. Meeman Award for his environmental reporting and won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2000. His work and research on coal mine issues as an Alicia Patterson Fellow earned him an Investigative Reporters and editors medal.[2]
External links
- Dawson, Bill (2005). "EW-Q&A: Charleston Gazette's Ken Ward". Environment Writer (May). Archived from the original on 2006-07-17.
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References
- ^ "SEJ First Amendment task force". Society of Environmental Journalists website. Retrieved 2006-05-16.
- ^ a b "Ken Ward, Jr". Nieman Watchdog. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
- ^ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
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