Susanne Rust

Susanne Rust (born in Briarcliff Manor, New York) is an American investigative journalist.

Biography

She graduated from Barnard College with a bachelor's degree, from University of Wisconsin–Madison, with an MS in 1999.^[1] In 2003, she started as a science reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.^[2] She with Meg Kissinger investigated Bisphenol A. She was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.^[3]

Rust currently works at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs the Energy and Environment Reporting Project.^[4] She was an environmental reporter at California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting until 2014.

Awards

• 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting finalist ^[5][6]
• 2008 George Polk Award^[7]
• 2008 John B. Oakes award for distinguished environmental reporting ^[8]
• Scripps Howard National Journalism award
• 2009 Grantham award of special merit ^[9]

Bibliography

• Rust, Susanne; Cary Spivak; Meg Kissinger (Nov 25, 2007). "Are your products safe? You can't tell". Journal-Sentinel. Milwaukee.
• Rust, Susanne; Cary Spivak; Meg Kissinger (Dec 2, 2007). "Bisphenol A is in you". Journal-Sentinel. Milwaukee.
• Rust, Susanne (Sep 2013). "See a fish think". The Crux. Discover. 34 (7): 16.