Announcing the winner of the 2022 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting October 26, 2022 The winner of the 2022 Nina Mason Pulliam Award for Outstanding Environmental Reporting is Sharon Lerner for her two first-place winning entries: "The Department of Yes: How Pesticide Companies Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America" (Kevin Carmody Award for
Arlyssa Becenti. Arlyssa Becenti is a Diné journalist with more than a decade of experience reporting on Navajo Nation. She recently placed first for Arizona Press Club’s community investigating reporting for her series on the illegal hemp and marijuana farms in Shiprock, New Mexico. She was also awarded Arizona Press Club’s 2020 Nina Mason Pulliam Environmental Journalism Award for community reporting. Before joining The Arizona Republic, she reported for the daily Gallup Independent and weekly Navajo Times. She earned a masters in investigative journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
SEJ's Awards for Reporting on the Environment honor the best environmental journalism on the planet. On Wednesday, October 26, at 1:00 p.m. ET, join the first-place winners in 10 categories as they share how they got their award-winning stories. And be among the first to learn who is the "Best of the Best" when we announce LIVE the winner of the 2022 Nina Mason Pulliam Award