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

A hydrofluoric acid leak from an oil refinery in Ohio sent a worker to the hospital

Contractors injured on the job, like Jose Herrera, have little means for redress

As communities battle toxic air, industry shapes EPA and state regulation.

Use of 'unapproved methods' by EPA put workers and public at risk of asbestos exposure, IG says

Did a $5B industry cover of the health risks of manganese to thousands of workers?

An Arizona town's long struggle with toxic air pollution

In smelter town, decades of dirty air, disease — and bureaucratic dawdling

Air toxics crackdown stymied by politics, industry resistance and ‘hopelessly irrational’ EPA

Despite years of citizen complaints, factory on EPA ‘watch list’ gets new license to foul the air

Regulators feared disclosure would make it seem like a ‘most wanted’ list

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