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Daniel Shailer is an award-winning environmental reporter. Previously he's worked as a marine reporter with Britain's most northerly newspaper The Shetland Times, a correspondent with the Associated Press' Central and South America bureau in Mexico City, and with the Tucson Sentinel in southern Arizona. In 2025 he won an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for early career science reporting from the National Academies. His reporting has also won awards from the Overseas Press Club, Arena for Journalism in Europe and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Daniel's freelance work has appeared regularly in Private Eye, Pulitzer-winning Inside Climate News, Mongabay and investigative cooperative The Ferret. His reporting has also appeared in the the New Yorker, Guardian, Scientific American, Hakai Magazine, New Lines, Atlas Obscura, Gothamist and Business Insider. He has also written essays for the LA Review of Books and Literary Hub, and contributed to UK-based Outdoor Swimmer Magazine.
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