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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.

November 16, 2012 | 11:02 AM

StateImpact’s Susan Phillips joined a panel discussion on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story this week, focusing on the “costs of energy independence.” StateImpact recently ran a story “Energy Independence: More Rhetoric than Reality,” which explored the never-ending quest for U.S. independence from foreign oil, and the shift toward thinking about “energy security.” To watch the Al Jazeera show, click here.