Newsroom Updates

Wiske brings decades of nonprofit leadership experience to Floodlight.

Floodlight is proud to announce that we’ve hired investigative reporter Garrett Hazelwood to join our team. Hazelwood lives in New Orleans and his reporting will focus on Louisiana and the Gulf South. As a freelance reporter writing for both national and local outlets, his work has explored Louisiana’s

Floodlight has chosen Brad Racino as our next editor-in-chief after a highly competitive national search that drew 240 candidates.

The National Press Club announced Wednesday that Floodlight and several news partners have won the Arthur E. Rowse Award for Examining the News Media for our investigation into media manipulation in America. In 2024, Floodlight, along with media partners, exposed how corporations and special interests were manipulating public opinion by

Floodlight and NPR took first place for reporting about mis- and disinformation in the Los Angeles Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards. The winning entry, Chevron owns this city’s news site. Many stories aren’t told., was written by former Floodlight reporter Miranda Green and NPR media correspondent

Floodlight is excited to announce the hiring of award-winning investigative broadcast journalist Evan Simon to the Floodlight team. Simon most recently worked as a member of the ABC News Investigative Unit. A recent study found many consumers prefer to get their climate news in video. Simon’s role at Floodlight

Floodlight is pleased to announce the hiring of our first-ever audience director to expand the number and type of people who see our work and to deepen audience engagement. Rosie Gillies most recently was the audience engagement editor at Bolts, a nonprofit news outlet that covers criminal justice, policing, voting

Floodlight is one of 12 climate newsrooms forming the Climate News Task Force (CNTF) to increase and improve journalism collaborations. “The climate crisis is the biggest story on the planet, but climate journalists cannot keep up with audience demand for credible, accurate and impactful climate news,” said Emily Holden, founder

Floodlight is thrilled to announce we have hired Ames Alexander, a veteran investigative reporter with a stellar history of producing impactful, award-winning work. For the past 31 years, Alexander has uncovered some of the biggest problems facing North Carolina for the Charlotte Observer, a news outlet nationally known for its

Floodlight Editor-in-Chief Dee J. Hall along with her husband Andy were honored Wednesday by the Institute for Nonprofit News. The couple were recognized with INN’s Service to Nonprofit News Award for their volunteer work at INN and for service to the nonprofit news sector. The award was part of

The investigative climate newsroom doubles down on its collaborative mission by making stories free to republish.

The award honors a story tying power company money to efforts to secretly use the media to attack critics and boost the utilities’ agendas.

Welcome to Floodlight. We are a new model of investigative environmental journalism.