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Ken Ward Jr. is a staff reporter for the Charleston Gazette-Mail, who has been nationally recognized for his writing about the coal mining industry and its impacts on 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 Virginia 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]

In October 2018, Ward was named a MacArthur Fellow (popularly known as "Genius Grants") by the John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.^[4] Ward is the first MacArthur Fellow to be living in West Virginia at the time of their award; the three previous recipients from West Virginia had moved away.^[5]

References

^ "SEJ First Amendment task force". Society of Environmental Journalists website. Retrieved 2006-05-16.
^ ^a ^b "Ken Ward, Jr". Nieman Watchdog. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
^ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
^ "Ken Ward Jr". MacArthur Foundation. October 4, 2018. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
^ "Gazette-Mail's Ward receives MacArthur Fellowship". Charleston Gazette-Mail. October 4, 2018. Retrieved October 4, 2018.

External links

Column Archives at Charleston Gazette-Mail
Column Archives at ProPublica
Dawson, Bill (2005). "EW-Q&A: Charleston Gazette's Ken Ward". Environment Writer (May). Archived from the original on 2006-07-17. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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[1] "SEJ First Amendment task force". Society of Environmental Journalists website. Retrieved 2006-05-16.

[nieman_watchdog-2] "Ken Ward, Jr". Nieman Watchdog. Retrieved October 23, 2013.

[3] Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship

[4] "Ken Ward Jr". MacArthur Foundation. October 4, 2018. Retrieved October 4, 2018.

[5] "Gazette-Mail's Ward receives MacArthur Fellowship". Charleston Gazette-Mail. October 4, 2018. Retrieved October 4, 2018.

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+'''Ken Ward Jr.''' is a staff reporter for the ''[[Charleston Gazette-Mail]]'', who has been nationally recognized for his writing about the coal mining industry and its impacts on 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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 In October 2018, Ward was named a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow]] (popularly known as "Genius Grants") by the John D. and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1027/|title=Ken Ward Jr.|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|date=October 4, 2018|accessdate=October 4, 2018}}</ref> Ward is the first MacArthur Fellow to be living in West Virginia at the time of their award; the three previous recipients from West Virginia had moved away.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/gazette-mail-s-ward-receives-macarthur-fellowship/article_9042c996-0648-5413-9589-702f7cc0fa9c.html|title=Gazette-Mail's Ward receives MacArthur Fellowship|newspaper=Charleston Gazette-Mail|date=October 4, 2018|accessdate=October 4, 2018}}</ref>
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