Susan Phillips

About

I'm the Senior reporter/editor leading WHYY's Climate Desk. I was an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellow during the 2013/14 school year, a Metcalf Fellow in environmental reporting in 2016, and an MBL Logan Science reporting fellow in 2014. In 2013 I received the duPont-Columbia Award for my coverage, which focused on the environmental, economic and social impacts of fracking and Marcellus Shale development. Check out my recent work here: https://whyy.org/person/susan-phillips/In 2010 I traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake and produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania’s gas rush called “The Shale Game.” I also won the Associated Press Sandy Starobin Award for uncovering threats to drinking water related to gas drilling. I have received ten Edward R. Murrow awards and was a finalist for an Online News Association Award in 2015. My reporting has taken me to Japan, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Cuba, Israel and Morocco, where I reported on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. I earned my M.S. in journalism from Columbia University in 2003.