Ken Ward, Jr.

Ken Ward, Jr. is a staff reporter for the Charleston Gazette, who has been nationally recognized for his writing on the coal mining industry. 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 focuses on mine safety and he has covered the SAgo and Darby Mine disasters along with the Aracoma Mine fire in 2006.[2]

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "SEJ First Amendment task force". Society of Environmental Journalists website. Retrieved 2006-05-16.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ken Ward, Jr.". Nieman Watchdog. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship