Thought Leader Profile
Robert McClure
Independent Journalist, Strategic News Service
Veteran investigative journalist with a current focus on energy and climate.
- Pulitzer Prize finalist. Winner of numerous journalism awards including Best of the West and the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.
- Specialist in reporting and editing investigative journalism that inspires positive change in public policy and corporate practice.
- Co-founder of nonprofit journalism studio InvestigateWest, leading numerous investigations focused on environment, public health and government accountability, 2009-2021.
- Recipient of two prestigious Knight Foundation-funded fellowships to study at MIT, Harvard, and the University of Michigan.
- Named by Seattle Magazine as one of Seattle's "most influential" people.
- Inducted into the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Hall of Fame.
- Transparency fanatic, serial filer of Public Records Act and FOIA requests for government documents and board member, Washington Coalition for Open Government.
Speaker at FiRe 2022
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News for Robert McClure
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Posted on Fri Aug 8, 2025, 5:12 pm
How We're Funded - InvestigateWest -
Posted on Mon Feb 3, 2025, 8:00 am
Seattle’s canopy shrinks as ordinance protects the wrong trees - Cascade PBS -
Posted on Sun Jan 17, 2021, 8:00 am
A Thin Green Line with Global Impact - InvestigateWest -
Posted on Mon May 18, 2020, 7:00 am
InvestigateWest selects new Executive Director - InvestigateWest -
Posted on Tue Jan 16, 2018, 8:00 am
Water, climate, oil spills and more on Legislature’s environmental to-do list... -
Posted on Thu Dec 1, 2016, 8:00 am
The Waste That Remains From Arming Nuclear Weapons - Oregon Public Broadcasti... -
Posted on Tue Nov 19, 2013, 8:00 am
Scientists Want to Know How Much Fish You Ate Last Night - KQED -
Posted on Tue Feb 8, 2011, 8:00 am
New partnerships for InvestigateWest - InvestigateWest