J-School Alumnus Wins Middlebury Fellowship

Wes Enzinna (MJ ’10) was one of the 10 recipients of the 2010 Middlebury Fellowship for Environmental Journalism. The $10,000 fellowship, in its fourth year, “is designed to support intensive, year-long reporting about environmental issues by journalists at the start of their careers.”

According to Scholar-in-Residence in Environmental Studies and Program Director Bill McKibben, “The pool this year had even more amazing applicants than we’ve gotten used to seeing. It’s literally painful for the committee that has to choose the winners.”

Enzinna won for his piece “Lives of displaced residents of a post-mining toxic-waste ghost town in Kansas”. He is currently working as an intern for Harper’s Magazine.

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