Ken Ward, Jr. kward@wvgazette.com Ken Ward, Jr., a reporter for The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette, is a native of Mineral County, W.Va., and a graduate of West Virginia University. Since starting at the Gazette in 1991, Ward, 41, has received numerous regional and national reporting awards for his coverage of strip mining, pulp mills, timbering and medical waste incinerators. Read his stories on mountaintop removal here or follow him on his Coal Tattoo blog or Twitter at http://twitter.com/Kenwardjr. Ward is a three-time winner of the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting and in 2000 received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Ward is also chairman of the Society of Environmental Journalists' First Amendment Task Force. Mine safety has been part of his beat during most of his 16 years at the Gazette. He covered the Sago and Darby Mine disasters and the Aracoma Mine fire in 2006, and later that year spent six months researching coal mine issues as an Alicia Patterson Fellow. The resulting series, Beyond Sago, |
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