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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.

July 11, 2012 | 1:08 PM

Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane spoke to reporters Nicholas Shaxson and Leslie Wayne about tax havens today during the first hour of her show. Wayne recently wrote a piece for the New York Times on how Wilmington, Delaware has become just as useful as the Cayman Islands when it comes to sheltering money. Wayne speaks to Marty about how companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale set up shop in Delaware to avoid paying taxes and also benefit from tax breaks in Pennsylvania. To learn more, listen to the show here.