Jim Morris

Senior Reporter  The Center for Public Integrity
jmorris@publicintegrity.org
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Jim Morris has been a journalist since 1978, specializing in coverage of the environment and public health. He has won more than 50 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, the Sigma Delta Chi award, and five Texas Headliners awards. He directed a global investigation of the asbestos industry that won the first-place John B. Oakes award for environmental reporting from Columbia University in 2011 and an IRE Medal from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has worked for newspapers in Texas and California as well as publications such as U.S. News & World Report and Congressional Quarterly in Washington. This is his second stint at the Center.

Coverage areas

Landmark study of miners shows elevated risk of cancer from engine exhaust

In a case followed around the world, two former business executives were convicted in Italy of manslaughter in 3,000 deaths

A proposed EPA list of 'chemicals of concern' has been under review by the White House budget office for 638 days

Publication of a landmark government study of lung cancer in miners is delayed by an industry group and its congressional allies

Improving economy requires electricity, so Big Coal is back

IMPACT: No harm from clouds of toxic acid, refiner says — to skepticism

Politician to ask about safety at a Philadelphia refinery

As climate change gases decline, data reveals natural gas increase

Official endures threats, ostracism – and now a lawsuit for activism

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