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Scott Thomas Anderson

Part-Time Fellowship-2010

Project: "Shadow People: How Meth-Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America"


Bio:

Scott is a journalist who has written for publications like The Sacramento News and Review, and Sierra Lodestar magazine.  He's worked as a foreign correspondent for Radio Kerry in Tralee, Ireland, and he's been published in The Irish Independent, Dublin's largest daily newspaper.  Scott is currently a crime reporter for the northern California newspaper, The Ledger Dispatch. In 2008, Scott won the California Newspaper Publishers Association's highest honor for Writing, followed by a second-place win for Investigative Journalism the following year.  He has been interviewed about homicide investigations nationally on the Travel Channel, and internationally on Ireland's Radio 1: Drivetime. Scott received a B.A. in English studies from the University of California at Davis. In February, 2012, Anderson's Fellowship project was released as a book, "Shadow People: how meth-driven crime is eating at the heart of rural America." 


Scott Thomas Anderson