New York, NY—The Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) is pleased to announce that Dana Dugan has joined its team as Social Media Editor.
Dugan has worked in the environmental field for over 15 years, including several years in the environmental consulting industry. She was previously the assistant editor at Environmental Health News/The Daily Climate, managing their social media presence.
“We’re excited to have Dana join our organization, with her proven ability to build audiences on multiple social media platforms,” said FERN’s Editor-in-Chief, Sam Fromartz.
“I’m thrilled to be joining FERN as Social Media Editor,” Dugan said. “I’m a big fan and so extremely honored to be part of the team.”
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FERN is the first and only independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically underreported areas of food, agriculture, and environmental health. Since 2011, FERN has published more than 59 stories with mainstream media on subjects ranging from the connection between human health and the overuse of antibiotics in industrial animal agriculture to wage theft of farmworkers, for which it won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in 2013. Its story on antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the food supply won a 2014 award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals for “culinary writing that makes a difference,” and was also nominated for a 2014 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for best story in the category of “Food Politics, Policy, and the Environment.” Its story on quinoa with Harper’s magazine won a 2015 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in the category of “Food Politics, Policy, and the Environment.”
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