Inside Climate News hires Sorg to cover North Carolina

Lisa Sorg

Inside Climate News has hired Lisa Sorg to cover North Carolina energy and environmental news.

She has been assistant editor and environmental reporter at NC Newsline, which is part of the nonprofit States Newsroom.

Sorg helped manage newsroom operations while covering the environment, climate change, agriculture and energy. She has won dozens of awards for her news, public service and investigative reporting, including the Henry Weathers Freedom of Information Award for her reporting on government transparency.

In 2022, Sorg was a co-winner of the Thomas L. Stokes Award for environmental and energy reporting, presented by the National Press Foundation.

She previously was editor of the Independent Weekly in Durham.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.