Highland and Islands media ball
Reporter of the Year
Also awarded Feature of the Year, Business Reporter of the Year and Young Reporter of the Year
Freelance environmental reporter
Daniel Shailer is an award-winning environmental reporter, who has worked in newsrooms from Southern Arizona to the Shetland Islands, via Mexico City, Pittsburgh and London. He specializes in marine reporting, and his investigations and features regularly appear in international outlets.
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Featured Work
08 Oct, 2026
The Guardian
This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?
06 Jul, 2026
The Fence
Shetland's Most Wanted
27 Oct, 2024
Inside Climate News
Flooding the Market
04 Sep, 2024
Hakai
The Poachers Who Could Save Mexico’s Vaquita
24 Jul, 2024
The Guardian
‘They’re waiting till we die of cancer’: 10 years on, Mexico’s worst mining disaster still poisons lives
21 Aug, 2023
The New Yorker
Tits Out Under the Verrazzano
Awards
National Academies
Eric and Wendy Schmidt award for science communication.
For stories on "lost" species, totoaba poachers and coastal climate change.
Covering Climate Now
Student Journalist of the Year — Finalist
For reporting on Hurricane Sandy fallout, NYC flood law and rewilding in Dorset.
Overseas Press Club
Walter and Betsy Cronkite Scholarship
For reporting on water in NYC.