Abrahm Lustgarten
Encyclopedia
Abrahm Simon Lustgarten is an environmental reporter for ProPublica
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He graduated from Cornell University
with a BS in anthropology, and from Columbia University
with a MA in journalism.
He was a staff writer for Fortune magazine, and adjunct professor at the University of Oregon
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His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Esquire, Salon, Scientific American.
ProPublica
ProPublica is a non-profit corporation based in New York City. It describes itself as an independent non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. In 2010 it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece written by one of its...
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He graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
with a BS in anthropology, and from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
with a MA in journalism.
He was a staff writer for Fortune magazine, and adjunct professor at the University of Oregon
University of Oregon
-Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...
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His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Esquire, Salon, Scientific American.
Awards
- 2009 George Polk Award
- 2009 Goldsmith Prize finalist
- MacArthur Foundation grant for international reporting
Works
- China's Great Train; Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet. Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 9780805083248
- Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, W. W. Norton, forthcoming 2012, ISBN 9780393081626