Rebecca Clarren is an American freelance journalist

Journalist

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She attended the Maine Biological Laboratory, Science Journalism Program in 2004.
She is a contributor to Writers on the Range, and a contributing writer for High Country News and Salon.com.
She reported on the Klamath River controversy.

Her work has appeared in Fortune, Mother Jones Salon Marie Claire, Ms. Magazine, The Nation Nature Conservancy, Orion Magazine, Utne Reader.

She lives in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

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Awards

• 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 Fund for Investigative Journalism grant
• 2009 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow
• 2010 The Hillman Prize
  The Hillman Prize
  The Hillman Prize is a journalism award given out annually by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, named for the noted American labor leader. It is given to "journalists, writers and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good." Murray Kempton was the first recipient,...
  
  

Works

• Coalbed methane boom: a High country news special report, Authors Paul S. Larmer, Rebecca Clarren, Hal Clifford, Lynne Bama, High Country Foundation, 2002

External links

• Journalist's website
• "Sweatshops in U.S. Territory", NPR