Author

Ken Ward Jr.

@Kenwardjr

Ken Ward, Jr. has reported on coal industry issues for nearly 20 years at The Charleston Gazette, West Virginia’s largest daily newspaper. He is a three-time winner of the Edward J. Meeman Awards for environmental reporting, one of the national journalism awards given by the Scripps Howard Foundation. In 2006, he spent six months studying coal mine safety as part of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship.

Mining the Coal Beat: Keeping Watch Over an ‘Outlaw’ Industry

Digging through records, creating new databases, and asking key questions leads a West Virginia reporter to important investigative stories about the coal industry.
June 14, 2009

Using Documents to Report on Mountaintop Mining

When coal industry officials and business leaders complain about coverage, ‘the only way to counter such pressures is with good, solid reporting.’
June 15, 2004