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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A Thin Green Line with Global Impact - InvestigateWest -
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Scientists Want to Know How Much Fish You Ate Last Night - KQED -
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Breathing Uneasy: Air Pollution Crisis in South Seattle - InvestigateWest -
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Study sees parking lots dust as cancer risk - InvestigateWest