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Staff
Ken Paulman, editor, St. Paul
Ken is the managing editor for digital media projects at Fresh Energy and is a founding editor of Midwest Energy News. Prior to joining Fresh Energy, he was the managing editor for online news at Minnesota Public Radio. He started his journalism career in 2002 as a copy editor for the Duluth News Tribune, before spending five years at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, where he worked as a copy editor, online producer, features editor and night city editor. Ken is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Post archive | Contact: paulman@energynews.us, 651-726-7573, twitter.com/kenpaulman
Kari Lydersen, reporter, Chicago
Kari has written for Midwest Energy News since January 2011. She is an author and journalist who worked for the Washington Post‘s Midwest bureau from 1997 through 2009. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago Reader and other publications.
Post archive | Contact: kari.lydersen@gmail.com, twitter.com/karilydersen1
Karen Uhlenhuth, reporter, Kansas City
Karen spent most of her career reporting for The Kansas City Star, focusing at various times on local and regional news, and features. More recently, she was employed as a researcher and writer for a bioethics center at a children’s hospital in Kansas City.
Post archive | Contact: karen.uhlenhuth@gmail.com
Kathiann M. Kowalski, reporter, Cleveland
Kathi is the author of 25 books and more than 600 articles, and writes often on science and policy issues.
In addition to her journalism career, Kathi is an alumna of Harvard Law School and has spent 15 years practicing law. She is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers.
Post archive | Contact
twitter.com/kmkowalski
Andy Balaskovitz, reporter, Grand Rapids
Andy has been a journalism fellow for Midwest Energy News since 2014, following four years at City Pulse, Lansing’s alt-weekly newspaper. He is a graduate of Michigan State University’s Journalism School, where he focused on topics covered by the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and wrote for the Great Lakes Echo. He was the 2008 and 2009 recipient of the Edward Meeman Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Environmental Journalism at MSU.
Post archive | Contact: abalaskovitz@gmail.com
Frank Jossi, reporter, St. Paul
Frank is an independent journalist and consultant based in St. Paul and a longtime contributor to Midwest Energy News. His articles have appeared in more than 50 publications, including Minnesota Monthly, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, The Star Tribune, Minnesota Technology, Finance & Commerce and others. Frank has also been a Humphrey Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota, a Fulbright journalism teacher in Pakistan and Albania, and was also program director of the World Press Institute at Macalester College.
Post archive | Contact: frankjossi@comcast.net, 651-690-9211, twitter.com/fjjazz
David J. Unger, reporter, Chicago
David started writing for Midwest Energy News in 2016. His work has also appeared in InsideClimate News, The Atlantic, McClatchy DC and other outlets. Previously, he was the energy editor at The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, where he wrote and edited stories about the global energy transition toward cleaner fuels.
Post archive | Contact: david@dju.me, twitter.com/dungerdunger
Post archives for former reporting fellows: Dan Haugen | Dan Ferber
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