Sam Fromartz
@fromartz
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Editor-in-Chief, @FERNNews. Author: In Search of the Perfect Loaf, Winner IACP Literary Writing Award, also Organic Inc. Vincit Veritas.
New Yorker in DC
Joined December 2008
Congrats @TedGenoways @FERNnews @newrepublic for winning the Sidney award for investigative reporting. Great story!
Reporter @TedGenoways won the @SidneyHillman's June award for his story "How a Refugee’s American Dream Ended in a Police Killing," which done in partnership between FERN & @newrepublic. We're thrilled and thankful for this recognition. Read more here: https://t.co/yKZiwsmZ4N
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We named my successor as Editor-in-Chief @FERNnews, @theodoreross, who has a strong background in investigations, long-form magazine editing and also television news. Excited for FERN in the next stage of its evolution.
thefern.org
The Food & Environment Reporting Network announced today that Theodore Ross was named Editor-in-Chief, succeeding Samuel Fromartz who is stepping down as Editor-in-Chief more than 10 years after co…
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Must read child labor investigation by @tessacotsirilos @FERNnews. Among child labor violations, 75% were committed by employers in the food industry.
Why the nation’s food sector has the most child-labor violations. Story by @tessacotsirilos. Read more here: https://t.co/8PwMWUc1DV
@USDOL @WeRRestaurants @ilo @UN @hrw @UCLALabor @OSHA_DOL
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JOB! Editor-in-Chief, @FERNnews — See this and more #journalismjobs in the ONA Career Center. https://t.co/YNo9BqqI6z
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Our latest @fernnews on a little-known but explosive issue for lab-grown #meat. You haven't read this before, trust me. Great story by @joefassler in a FERN collaboration with @BW. https://t.co/HrEtIO42rI
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Ah to make an editor's heart go pitter patter....
Three cheers for @fromartz, a wonderful editor, mentor, and leader who taught me so much about journalism and co-created one of the best outlets for food and environment news. Onward!
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We’ll soon be launching a search for a new editor-in-chief -- job posting coming soon -- and I’ll remain through that entire transition. I’ll also still sit on the FERN board and contribute as needed.
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Those values will remain part of FERN’s culture and be the renewable energy that keeps the operation humming. Co-founder and partner Tom Laskawy will stay on as executive director.
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We came up with a model to provide stipends to freelancers who worked on complicated pitches. We often paid rates above our peers. We invested in photographers who could bring stories to life visually.
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Our journalism tells only half the story, because I’m also proud of the organization we built, one that values the people who work with us.
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Because central to our mission: amplifying stories beyond our core audience and influencing the discussion.
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What I’m most proud of is the sense that we created a “FERN story,” one which looked in-depth at food/ag/environmental issues and presented those issues in narratives that people could grasp. In other words, we were first and foremost storytellers.
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Changes ahead for me and @FERNnews -- it's been a great run but you gotta know when to pass the torch.
thefern.org
By Samuel Fromartz I’ve had quite a run at FERN, with more than a decade as editor-in-chief. But I’ve decided to step down later this year and bring in new blood so FERN can move ahead in the next…
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We asked our Washington editor, staff writers, and Midwest climate reporting fellow what they'll be keeping an eye on in the coming year, writes @fromartz in the latest Back Forty. Read here: https://t.co/LAgDQD7QrO
@chuckabbott1 @bridgethuber @tessacotsirilos @nancyaverett
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A deal like this won't last long - buy the "In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey" audiobook today and save 75%! @fromartz
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In 2009, journalist Samuel Fromartz was offered the assignment of a lifetime: to travel to France to work in a boulangerie. So began his quest to hone not just his homemade baguette—which later beat...
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Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell. Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.
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NEW: EPA's recent proposal to blend more biofuels, like ethanol, into the U.S. fuel supply will increase greenhouse gas emissions by 81 million to 265.9 million metric tons over three years, agency data shows. My latest:
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to increase biofuel blending mandates through 2025 would lead to a near-term increase in greenhouse gas emissions, before yielding reductions in...
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Our latest piece @fernnews questions the orthodoxy of sequestering carbon through farming, because the latest science on this doesn't look good. If you follow #farming and #climate change, read this piece by @GabrielPopkin
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It’s one thing the Biden administration, agribusiness leaders, soil scientists and environmentalists all agree on: farmers across the country should plant cover crops. The U.S.
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