NPR names Domonoske its energy and mobility reporter

Pallavi Gogoi, chief business editor at NPR, sent out the following announcement:

I’m delighted to announce that Camila Domonoske is joining the Business Desk as NPR’s Energy and Mobility Reporter.

This is an exciting area of coverage. The driverless car is no longer a moonshot. Ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft have transformed how people get places, challenging the very notion of car ownership.

Transportation and energy are inextricably linked. Some car companies have gone completely electric. Plus, the American shale revolution has brought the world’s most powerful cartel, OPEC, to its knees.

All of these developments are exciting, challenging and potentially ominous.

And Camila is poised to take NPR’s coverage to new heights.

Here’s more about Camila:

Camila studied poetry in college and got her start at NPR on the Arts Desk, where she produced and edited poetry reviews, book recommendation essays and author interviews. While at the Arts Desk, she helped conceive and create NPR’s first-ever Book Concierge.

For the last three years Camila has worked as a digital reporter, who has often gone live on-air for the newsmagazines, member station shows and other radio and TV outlets. Camila reported on the ground in Florida and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and Maria, and profiled students in Kentucky advocating for gun control in a pro-gun community reeling from a school shooting.

She’s written about police violence, deportations and immigration court, history and archaeology, global family planning funding, walrus haul-outs, the theology of hell, international approaches to climate change, the shifting symbolism of the cartoon named Pepe the Frog, the mechanics of pooping in space, cats and kangaroos … as well as a wide range of other topics.

She co-created NPR’s live headline contest, “Head to Head,” with Colin Dwyer (and says definitely, for sure, absolutely-no-question won a majority of the matches). She was one of the regular hosts of the Newsdesk’s daily news interview shows on Facebook Live and NPR One.

Camila worked with the Code Switch team on a podcast episode about Mary Hamilton, a civil rights activist who fought a Supreme Court case for the right to be called “Miss” as a black woman appearing in Southern courtrooms.

Camila enjoys: poetry, bike commuting, DC theater, movies with fast cars and explosions, baking, physical copies of newspapers, mountains.

In perhaps her greatest accomplishment, she helped NPR win a pie-eating contest at RAGBRAI in the summer of 2018.

That pie-eating win portends many more wins for Camila with the Business Desk.