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 U.S. dam safety database is open to the public but with restrictions that make it less useful than it once was. ...

To mark Sunshine Week, open-government groups are assessing President Barack Obama’s pledge to make the federal bureaucracy more open and le

The Environmental Protection Agency is ordering clearer labels for all “spot-on” flea and tick treatments applied directly to dogs’ and cats

Gov’t database of bad doctors blocks public from seeing names

The Department of Health and Human Services maintains a “bad doctor” database, but members of the public can’t see the doctors’ names....

Sixty-two cities in the United States have been deemed “high threat urban areas” by the Department of Homeland Security, meaning they’re sus

Although he left his stressful job with the Environmental Protection Agency nearly seven years ago, Bob Bostock says there’s one scenario th

Enron Corp.’s manipulation of the California energy market in 2000 and 2001 is notorious. Electricity bills soared and blackouts affected hu

Under President Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s, the White House Office of Management and Budget became known as the place where promising

In a new report, the President’s Cancer Panel emphatically reinforced what public health officials and activists have been saying for decade

Two refineries owned by oil giant BP account for 97 percent of all flagrant violations found in the refining industry by government safety i

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