Susanne Rust Explained

Susanne Rust (born in Briarcliff Manor, New York) is an American investigative journalist.

Biography

She graduated from Barnard College with a bachelor's degree, from University of Wisconsin–Madison, with an MS in 1999.^[1] In 2003, she started as a science reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.^[2] She with Meg Kissinger investigated Bisphenol A. She was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.^[3]

Rust currently works at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the Energy and Environment Reporting Project.^[4] She was an environmental reporter at California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting until 2014.

Awards

• 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting finalist ^{[5] [6]}
• 2008 George Polk Award^[7]
• 2008 John B. Oakes award for distinguished environmental reporting ^[8]
• Scripps Howard National Journalism award
• 2009 Grantham award of special merit ^[9]

Bibliography

• News: Rust, Susanne . Cary Spivak . Meg Kissinger . Nov 25, 2007 . Are your products safe? You can't tell . Journal-Sentinel . Milwaukee .
• News: Rust, Susanne . Cary Spivak . Meg Kissinger . Dec 2, 2007 . Bisphenol A is in you . Journal-Sentinel . Milwaukee .
• Rust, Susanne . Sep 2013 . See a fish think . The Crux . Discover . 34 . 7 . 16 .

External links

• Journalist's Twitter
• "Chemical Fallout", a series of articles from Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, to many of which Rust contributed.
• "Exposé on the Journal: Chemicals In Our Food", Bill Moyers' Journal
• Bill Moyers: Transcript 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
• "Science Suppressed: How America became obsessed with BPA"

Notes and References

1. http://www.forwardunder40.com/40/?p=49 Forward Runner
2. Web site: Audit of controversial chemical report shows no impropriety - JSOnline . 2010-05-31 . 2011-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110118071630/http://www.jsonline.com/news/29266909.html . dead .
3. Web site: Knight Fellowships: Class of 2010: Susanne Rust . knight.stanford.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100622203444/http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2010/rust/ . 2010-06-22.
4. Web site: The Energy and Environment Reporting Fellowship - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism . 2015-11-04 . dead . http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20151231155344/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/1184-the-energy-and-environment-reporting-fellowship/8 . 2015-12-31 .
5. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes.
6. Web site: Pulitzer Prize Finalist - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Bisphenol A Gets Pulitzer Finalist - thedailygreen.com . www.thedailygreen.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090424123838/http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/bisphenol-a-pulitzer-47042005 . 2009-04-24.
7. Web site: Journal Sentinel reporters win Polk Award for BPA series - JSOnline . 2010-05-31 . 2010-01-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100105221823/http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/40037607.html . dead .
8. Web site: 2008 Oakes Award Bios - the Journalism School Columbia University . 2012-06-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100614105642/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1175295293877/page/1212610808273/simplepage.htm . 2010-06-14 .
9. Web site: The Grantham Prize :: 2009 Awards of Merit . 2010-05-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924190835/http://www.granthamprize.org/winners/2009aosm . 2009-09-24 .