Susanne Rust (born in

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, New York) is an American investigative

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Biography

She graduated from

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with a bachelor's degree, from

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, with an MS in 1999. In 2003, she started as a science reporter at the ''

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''. She with

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investigated

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. She was a John S. Knight Fellow at

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. Rust currently works at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the Energy and Environment Reporting Project. She was an environmental reporter at

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, a project of the

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until 2014.

Awards

* 2009

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finalist * 2008

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* 2008 John B. Oakes award for distinguished environmental reporting * Scripps Howard National Journalism award * 2009 Grantham award of special merit

Bibliography

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References

External links

Journalist's Twitter
a series of articles from ''Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel'', to many of which Rust contributed.

''Bill Moyers' Journal''

May 23, 2008
"A talk with BPA muckraker Susanne Rust"
''MSU'', April 7, 2009
2009 Grantham Prize Award Presentation to Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger Part 1 of 2
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