Susanne Rust
Bio
Susanne Rust is an investigative reporter for California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting focused on the environment. Before joining California Watch, Susanne held a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. She began her journalism career in 2003 at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In her last three years at the Journal Sentinel, she focused much of her reporting on dangerous chemicals and lax regulations, working with colleagues Meg Kissinger and Cary Spivak. The series “Chemical Fallout” won numerous national awards, including a Sigma Delta Chi Award, George Polk Award, and two Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards in 2009 and 2010. The series also won the John B. Oakes Award for environmental reporting. Susanne and Meg were finalists in 2009 for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting. She also shared a National Headliner Award in 2010 for a series on conflicts of interest involving doctors and research at the University of Wisconsin.
My priorities
There's a wide range of important environmental issues facing Californians. I'll be looking closely at water quality, dangerous chemicals, lax regulatory practices, corporate polluters and lots more.
