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I'm a journalist covering the business and politics of food and agriculture from just outside Washington, D.C. I report on a wide range of issues, including agribusiness, regulation, federal agencies, corporate consolidation, environment and climate, racial discrimination, and labor. I am currently an agriculture and energy policy reporter at Reuters. Previously, I was a staff writer and associate editor at the Food and Environment Reporting Network. My reporting has been published in the Guardian, the Nation, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, NPR, the American Prospect, Time, and other outlets. I've been interviewed for numerous podcasts and radio shows, including the CBS Weekend News Roundup and Vox's Future Perfect, and appeared in an episode of Al Jazeera's Fault Lines that was nominated for a 2021 News Emmy. My reporting has been cited in dozens of print and television media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, AP, NBC Nightly News, and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight.
I was a 2021 fellow in the U.C. Berkeley - 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship, where my reporting focused on Covid-19, worker unions, and the food sector. In 2021, I won two reporting awards from the National Association of Agricultural Journalists for a feature on racism in FFA and for my Covid-19 mapping project. I was the 2020 recipient of the National Farmers Union Milt Hakel Award for excellence in agricultural reporting and I was a member of the 2019-2020 cohort of the New Economies Reporting Project finance solutions fellowship. I am a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, National Association of Agriculture Journalists, and Investigative Reporters & Editors. You can follow me on Twitter at @leahjdouglas.
I'm a journalist covering the business and politics of food and agriculture from just outside Washington, D.C. I report on a wide range of issues, including agribusiness, regulation, federal agencies, corporate consolidation, environment and climate, racial discrimination, and labor. I am currently an agriculture and energy policy reporter at Reuters. Previously, I was a staff writer and associate editor at the Food and Environment Reporting Network. My reporting has been published in the Guardian, the Nation, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, NPR, the American Prospect, Time, and other outlets. I've been interviewed for numerous podcasts and radio shows, including the CBS Weekend News Roundup and Vox's Future Perfect, and appeared in an episode of Al Jazeera's Fault Lines that was nominated for a 2021 News Emmy. My reporting has been cited in dozens of print and television media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, AP, NBC Nightly News, and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight.
I was a 2021 fellow in the U.C. Berkeley - 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship, where my reporting focused on Covid-19, worker unions, and the food sector. In 2021, I won two reporting awards from the National Association of Agricultural Journalists for a feature on racism in FFA and for my Covid-19 mapping project. I was the 2020 recipient of the National Farmers Union Milt Hakel Award for excellence in agricultural reporting and I was a member of the 2019-2020 cohort of the New Economies Reporting Project finance solutions fellowship. I am a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, National Association of Agriculture Journalists, and Investigative Reporters & Editors. You can follow me on Twitter at @leahjdouglas.
