Chris Hamby’s reporting on the environment and workplace safety has been recognized with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, two Sigma Delta Chi awards and the Upton Sinclair Memorial Award.  He has also been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting and the IRE Award.  His work includes computer-assisted reporting, and he previously worked at the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting’s database library. He has a master’s degree in journalism with a concentration in investigative reporting from the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Richmond. In 2010, he completed a yearlong re-examination of a controversial murder case, supported in part by an investigative reporting fellowship. His writing about policy, politics, the criminal justice system and public health has appeared online and in newspapers and magazines.