Matthew l wald biography of christopher

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The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has underscored the importance of specialized energy reporters.

Matthew l wald biography of christopher

Unfortunately, there weren’t many American journalists on the beat when disaster struck on March 11. The New York Times‘s veteran energy and environment reporter Matthew L. Wald was one of the few, and it has shown in the paper’s outstanding coverage of the unfolding disaster.

A Times reporter for nearly thirty-five years, Wald has covered nuclear power since 1979 and been in the paper’s Washington bureau since 1995. As part of the Times’s large global team, Wald jumped on the Japan story from the start, writing or contributing to more than twenty-eight stories or blog posts to date and providing technical expertise on countless others.

CJR contributing editor Cristine Russell interviewed Wald recently about media coverage of th