MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New 'Genius' Fellowships
Source: New York Times
MacArthur Foundation Announces 25 New 'Genius' Fellowships
By Sopan Deb
Oct. 4, 2018
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This year's winners, announced on Thursday, spanned several professions; they include a journalist, scientists, artists, musicians, writers and a human rights lawyer.
Ken Ward Jr., an investigative journalist who has reported for The Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia ever since he graduated from West Virginia University in 1990, received the call in his newsroom as he was going to the coffee maker. Mr. Ward, 50, has won acclaim for his dogged coverage of the coal industry, including the 2014 Elk River industrial chemical spill that left 300,000 people across nine counties without access to clean drinking water. Given the tumult of local newspapers all over the country -- including the sale of The Gazette-Mail this year, causing layoffs -- Mr. Ward was thankful and, of course, surprised by the fellowship, which gave him a "great sort of nest egg."
Ken Ward, an investigative reporter for The Charleston Gazette-Mail in West Virginia, won a fellowship.CreditJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
"It's a great kind of financial security for my family," Mr. Ward said. "I hope to keep doing the kind of work I am doing and maybe find some ways to do some experimentation of other ways to do local journalism."
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David Fahrenthold Retweeted:
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In January, in front of a laughing crowd, a coal industry lawyer announced coming layoffs at investigative journalist @Kenwardjr's newspaper.
Today, Ken is recognized as a MacArthur genius for his 25 years of tenacious reporting: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1027/
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Kenwardjr Retweeted:
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all 25 of these winners had no idea they were even up for the 'genius' $625,000 award.
but they're not as impressive as me, whom even the MacArthur Foundation hasn't realized is a genius
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I've got your MacArthur Foundation grantees here: https://nyti.ms/2RpdANn
Full list here:
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