Associated Press hires Walling as climate and environment reporter

Melina Walling will join the Associated Press as a climate and environment reporter. She begins June 5.

Since September 2021, Walling has been working at The Arizona Republic, recently as a general assignment reporter. Before that, she served as a multimedia bioscience reporter, a role in which he helped make the bioscience podcast, The Lab.

She covered the environment through a diversity, equity and inclusion lens as a contributor for Forbes.

Walling has a B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University.

Be sure to congratulate Walling on Twitter.