Jim Morris

Senior Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
jmorris@publicintegrity.org
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Jim Morris is a senior reporter and editor at the Center for Public Integrity and co-leader of the environment and labor team. A journalist since 1978, Morris has won more than 60 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, several Sigma Delta Chi awards, and five Texas Headliners awards. He directed a global investigation of the asbestos industry that won the John B. Oakes award for environmental reporting from Columbia University in 2011 and an IRE Medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He also led projects on worker hazards at oil refineries and lingering air toxics problems in U.S. communities that won honors from the National Press Foundation, the National Association of Science Writers, Harvard University and Hunter College, among other organizations. In April 2013, Morris and two colleagues received the Edgar A. Poe award for national reporting from the White House Correspondents’ Association for “Hard Labor, a series on health and safety threats to American workers. Morris has worked for a number of newspapers in Texas and California as well as publications such as U.S. News & World Report and Congressional Quarterly in Washington.

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A federal judge ruled Thursday that Walmart can be added to a lawsuit alleging widespread wage theft at a Southern California warehouse.

A chemical discharge in a Chicago-area factory kills a worker — and exposes the dangers faced by temp workers across the U.S.

Warehouse laborers, citing oppressive conditions and unpaid wages, contend Walmart is among those responsible.

A study linking higher rates of breast cancer for women in the auto plastics industry triggers anger among workers.

Researchers cite breast cancer risks in Canadian plastic auto parts factories — with potential implications in the U.S. and beyond.

A conflict in Detroit symbolizes a larger national debate over oil company plans to step up refining of heavier, dirtier crude from Alberta.

Corpus Christi, Texas, residents deemed pollution crime victims are asking a federal judge to set up medical and moving trust funds.

Justice Department alleges environmental and worker safety violations continue to plague Citgo's Texas refinery.

Kentucky's deletion of all violations in worker death case criticized by victim's family, feds.

UCLA Professor Patrick Harran stands accused of a felony in the death of research associate Sheri Sangji after a lab fire.

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