InsideClimate News
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Type of site
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Online magazine |
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| Owner | David Sassoon |
| Editor | Susan White |
| Website | insideclimatenews |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 2007 |
InsideClimate News is a non-profit and non-partisan news organization, focusing on environmental journalism. The publication writes that it "covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science—plus the territory in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped."
Established in 2007, the Brooklyn, New York-based website quickly became respected by the science and environmental community for its coverage of environmental issues. It won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for its coverage of the Kalamazoo River oil spill.
The website was co-founded in 2007 by publisher David Sassoon and managing editor Stacy Feldman. Originally called SolveClimate News, it adopted its current name "to counter the perception that it was an environmental advocacy organization." As a non-profit journalism outlet, InsideClimate News's model is similar to that of ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting, which have similarly gained recognition. Like the other two organizations, InsideClimate News publishes its content for free on the Web, collaborates with for-profit news organizations that republish some of the nonprofit's work with credit, and aims "to tackle topics that bigger, better-known news organizations are not equipped or inclined to do."
As of 2013, InsideClimate News had a small staff of seven full-time employees and an annual budget of about $550,000.
Three InsideClimate News reporters—Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and David Hasemyer—won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their series of "rigorous reports" on the Kalamazoo River oil spill in Michigan, in which an Enbridge oil pipeline spill led to the costliest onshore oil spill in American history. The Pulitzer citation praised the reporters for exporting the aftermath of the 2010-2012 oil spill and "flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or 'dilbit'), a controversial form of oil."
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