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Chris Hamby

Staff Writer  The Center for Public Integrity
chamby@publicintegrity.org
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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.

Coverage areas

Amid health risks, worries about a threat to jobs and the economy

Energy cash fueled campaigns of Democrats defecting on EPA vote

Truth and fiction, from God’s role to the culpability of cows

Oil, gas and coal money favored Republican campaigns 4-to-1

Year after tragedy, government pleads for prevention

New oil refinery in South Dakota says it will use alternative to toxic acid

The company planning to build the nation’s first new major oil refinery in 35 years will use a safer technology as a substitute for a highly

A California utility, waiting for "safety lessons" arising from the crisis in Japan, has asked to delay a hearing on extending the operation

Tired of waiting for state regulators to take meaningful action, two environmental groups are preparing to file a lawsuit against the nation

Reacting to health worries about chemical dispersants used in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg intro

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