State of the Free Press 2025
My story “What Happens When a Country Says ‘No’ to Mining?” (Mother Jones/National Observer) was featured in Project Censored’s annual State of the Free Press 2025 book, ranked #12 on the list of the 25 most important but under-reported North American news stories of the year.
AWARDS UPDATE FOR PITFALL
At the November Writer’s Trust/Basillie Prize gala in Toronto with Margaret Atwood and Jim Basillie, flanked by fellow prize finalists Wendy H. Wong and Gregor Craigie.
- Finalist for the $60,000 Writer’s Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Winner of First prize in the 2024 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Competition for British Columbian Authors of Nonfiction
- Finalist for the 2024 Banff Centre Mountain Book Competition in the Environmental Literature category
- Winner of The US Science in Society Journalism Book Award
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
How Much Further Can Mining Go?
“Unless business as usual can change, companies will venture into ever deeper, darker, and riskier places.”
Read an abridged chapter from my book Pitfall, published by The Walrus