Janet Wilson

Environment Reporter

Janet Wilson is a veteran journalist based in southern California. As an environment reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times, she covered everything from inner city neighborhoods grappling with deadly soot and hexavalent chromium to White House officials quashing scientists’ findings on ozone and climate change. Wilson was part of teams honored with 2008 First Place awards by the Associated Press and Los Angeles Press Club for wildfire coverage. She was a frontline reporter on the Times team that won the paper’s 2004 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. She has also worked with grist.org, Environmental Health News, the Detroit Free Press, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, CNN, ABC News “Nightline” and Christian Science Monitor. As a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 1995, she studied juvenile violence and documentary film making. In Mar. 2009 she was named a senior fellow for environmental justice with USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism.

Articles

Living in Industry's Shadow

Living in Industry's Shadow

<p>Living and working 10 minutes from the industrial hub of downtown Los Angeles, the Martin family has suffered illness after illness. Journalist Janet Wilson set out to find out why.&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></p>

The city that said 'no'

<p>Maywood, Calif., has created a "culture of participation" to help solve its pollution problems, particularly contaminated water.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Hunt Fellowship Project

I'm thrilled to have been selected to receive a Dennis A. Hunt Health Journalism grant, and look forward to meeting my fellow fellows at the upcoming October conference. As a freelancer, this grant will, quite simply, enable me to do in depth reporting that I could not have otherwise. My project will examine the history of industrial contamination in a small California city, and a unique effort by federal and local officials to forge solutions. The work is slated to be published in the Christian Science Monitor, and a chain of bi-lingual, Hispanic-English newspapers.