StateImpact Pennsylvania: Behind the Story

Susan Phillips

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

December 19, 2012 | 4:57 PM

StateImpact Pennsylvania is honored to be a recipient of one of the 2013 duPont Columbia Awards. Our fellow award winners include Sundance Select, CBS News, Current TV, KCET, KLAS-TV, The Weinstein Company, NPR, StoryCorps, USA Today, Frontline, WVUE-TV, and WXYZ-TV. WHYY’s web producer Lindsay Lazarski put together this video on the story behind the StateImpact Pennsylvania stories. We welcome you to take a look.

BEHIND THE STORY — StateImpact Pennsylvania from Alfred I. duPont Awards on Vimeo.