Katie Worth
Former Reporter
Katie Worth likes to tell stories about science, politics, and their myriad intersections. She began her professional life as a beat reporter at the Pacific Daily News on Guam, and later worked as an enterprise reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, Slate, The Wall Street Journal andThe Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology.
Worth joined the Boston-based FRONTLINE team in 2015 as the inaugural FRONTLINE-Columbia Tow Journalism Fellow, and for the next six years worked on special investigative projects for the series — including a one-year stint in Milwaukee as an O’Brien Fellow in Public...
Location:
Boston, MA
Areas of Expertise:
Politics, science
Languages:
Spanish
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Stories from Katie Worth
“Deflect, Delay, Defer”: Decade of Pacific Gas & Electric Wildfire Safety Pushback Preceded Disasters
The Virus At Sea
Inside Idaho’s Long Legislative Battle Over Climate Change Education
After Deadly Fire, Regulators and Consumers Question PG&E Blackouts
Aspirational Climate Goal Embraced at U.N. Talks, But Not by U.S.
Camp Fire Children Face Trauma of Climate Change At Home, School
In Shift, Key Climate Denialist Group Heartland Institute Pivots to Policy
Framed for Murder By His Own DNA
The Last Generation
The Last Generation
Mailings to Teachers Highlight a Political Fight Over Climate Change in the Classroom
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Koo and Patricia Yuen
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