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Ken Ward Jr. is a co-founder of Mountain State Spotlight^[1] and former staff reporter for the Charleston Gazette-Mail and writes 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."^[2] He announced on Monday, February 24, that this would be his last day.^{[year needed]}^{[citation needed]}

Personal

Ward is a native of Mineral County, West Virginia. He obtained his degree from West Virginia University.^[3]

Career

He began working at the Charleston Gazette in 1991. His work has focused on mine safety, mountaintop removal,^[3] 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^[4] 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.^[3]

In October 2018, Ward was named a MacArthur Fellow (popularly known as "Genius Grants") by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.^[5] 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.^[6]

References

^ "Our Team".
^ "SEJ First Amendment task force". Society of Environmental Journalists website. Retrieved 2006-05-16.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Ken Ward, Jr". Nieman Watchdog. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
^ "Ken Ward Jr. - Fellowship year: 2006". Alicia Patterson Foundation. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
^ "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.

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(1990–1999)	Tom Ashbrook (1990) Jack Hitt (1991 co-winner) Paul Tough (1991 co-winner) Leda Zimmerman (1992) Bert Robinson (1993 co-winner) Scott Thurm (1993 co-winner) Darcy Frey (1994) Jeanmarie Condon (1995) Jim Lynch (1996) Charles Sennott (1997) Lindsey Schwartz (1998 co-winner) Patrick Weiland (1998 co-winner) Laura Meckler (1999)
(2000–2009)	Ken Ward Jr. (2000) Edward Pinde (2001) Bob Norman (2002) Alix Spiegel (2003) Nicholas Confessore (2004 ) Julie Jargon (2004 ) Reese Dunklin (2005) Robin Mejia (2006) Stella Chavez (2007 co-winner) Paul David Meyer (2007 co-winner) Craig Kapitan (2008) Mark Mazzetti (2008) Kate Kelly (2009)
(2010–2019)	David Nathaniel Philipps (2010) John Henion (2011 co-winner) Mariana van Zeller (2011 co-winner) Olga Pierce (2012 co-winner) Jeff Larson (2012 co-winner) Lois Beckett (2012 co-winner) Rachel Manteuffel (2013) Ellen Gabler (2014 co-winner) Allan James Vestal (2014 co-winner) Ryan Gabrielson (2015 co-winner) Shoshana Walter (2015 co-winner) Mike Baker (2016 co-winner) Daniel Wagner (2016 co-winner) Brooke Jarvis (2017) Ronan Farrow (2018) Michael S. Schmidt (2018 co-winner) Emily Steel (2018 co-winner) Chris Outcalt (2019)
(2020–2024)	Assia Boundaoui (2020) Hannah Dreier (2021) Jose A. Del Real (2022) Caitlin Dickerson (2023) Alison Behringer (2023 co-winner) Lila Hassan (2023 co-winner)

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