Daniel Shailer
Daniel Shailer
Daniel Shailer

Freelance environmental reporter

Daniel Shailer is an award-winning environmental reporter, who has worked in newsrooms from Southern Arizona to the Shetland Islands, via Mexico City, Pittsburgh and London. He specializes in marine reporting, and his investigations and features regularly appear in international outlets.

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AP News
Inside Climate News
Mongabay
Scientific American
The Fence
The Ferret
The Guardian
The New Yorker
The Private Eye

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Awards

    • Highland and Islands media ball

      Reporter of the Year

      Also awarded Feature of the Year, Business Reporter of the Year and Young Reporter of the Year

    • National Academies

      Eric and Wendy Schmidt award for science communication.

      For stories on "lost" species, totoaba poachers and coastal climate change.

    • Covering Climate Now

      Student Journalist of the Year — Finalist

      For reporting on Hurricane Sandy fallout, NYC flood law and rewilding in Dorset.

    • Overseas Press Club

      Walter and Betsy Cronkite Scholarship

      For reporting on water in NYC.