Amy Green has joined Inside Climate News as a reporter covering climate and the environment in Florida, adding an important new dimension of reporting to the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit's Southeast network.
Green joins Inside Climate News from WMFE in Orlando, where he covered the environment for more than a decade. Green is also its creator Draineda podcast about the massive plan to save the Everglades, and the author of “Moving Water: The Everglades and Big Sugar”, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Green's work has been heard on NPR and seen by PEOPLE, Newsweek, The New York Times, Inside Climate News, and The Christian Science Monitor. he was a recipient of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award and the Public Media Journalists Association. She began her career at the Associated Press in Nashville, Tenn. Green grew up in Florida and lives in Orlando.
In her new role, Green will continue to work with WMFE, as well as other news outlets across the state and region, strengthening ICN's Southeast Reporting Network, which was started by Kentucky reporter James Bruggers five years ago. years. The Southeast network now includes more than a dozen publishing partners across the region, including nonprofit newsrooms, public radio and legacy news organizations, and has convened environmental and climate workshops for dozens of local journalists across the region.
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Green is the sixth reporter ICN has added to its local reporting staff in the past nine months, expanding its scope and ability to work with outlets in new geographies.
“We've been building our local offices for five years, and with these talented hires we've taken a significant leap forward,” said David Sassoon, founder and publisher of Inside Climate News. “We will continue to build capabilities in markets across the country in partnership with other news outlets to strengthen the local conversation around climate, energy and the environment.”
Last June, Aman Azhar joined as a reporter covering environmental justice with a focus on Baltimore and Maryland. He has previously worked as a journalist and media producer for the BBC World Service, VOA News and other international news organizations, reporting from London, Islamabad, the United Arab Emirates and New York.
In August 2022, Houston native Dylan Baddour opened ICN's Texas office in Austin, where he covers the energy sector and environmental justice. He has reported for the Houston Chronicle, covered the US-Mexico border for international media and reported for several years from Colombia for the Washington Post, BBC News and The Atlantic, among others. ICN partners with the Texas Tribune to distribute news across the state.
Reporter Martha Pskowski, who covers climate change and the environment in Texas from her base in El Paso, joined Inside Climate News in January 2023. She was previously an environmental reporter at the El Paso Times. She began her career as a freelance journalist in Mexico, reporting for agencies such as The Guardian and Yale E360.
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Also in January, Aydali Campa joined ICN's Midwest network, covering environmental justice across the region from Chicago. Campa has covered education, Covid-19 and cross-border issues. Her previous work can be seen in The Wall Street Journal, The Arizona Republic and Arizona PBS. Campa joins Dan Gearino, ICN's clean energy reporter, who is based in Columbus, Ohio and started the Midwestern network five years ago.
Wyatt Myskow, who was hired by ICN in January, is a Roy Howard Fellow and Mountain West correspondent based in Phoenix, where he covers water issues, how communities are adapting to climate change, efforts to find new energy sources, how they manage public lands from the federal government and the impact of development on the area. Myskow has previously reported for The Arizona Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The State Press, covering local government, development news, education issues and the COVID-19 pandemic.
About Inside Climate News
Founded in 2007, Inside Climate News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that provides meaningful reporting and analysis on climate change, energy and the environment for the public and decision makers. We act as watchdogs for government and industry and hold them accountable for their policies and actions.
We have won national recognition for our work and many of the most important awards in journalism, including the Pulitzer Prize. We've built one of the largest dedicated climate newsrooms in the country and continue to expand collaborative local reporting networks across many regions of the country. We are committed to educating the next generation of journalists of color and strengthening the practice of environmental journalism and justice.
