Kirkham had been at the Times since May 2014 covering the economy.
Before that, Kirkham had been a business reporter at the Huffington Post in New York since December 2010, where he has covered a range of topics including the business of higher education, private prisons and the environment. Previously he worked as an environmental and politics reporter at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and has had internships at The Washington Post and the Miami Herald.
He was part of a Times-Picayune team that covered the 2010 BP oil spill. For its coverage, the newspaper won the Edward J. Meeman Award for environmental reporting from the Scripps-Howard Foundation and received second place for Columbia University’s John B. Oakes Award for environmental journalism. Chris was a finalist for young business journalist of the year from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
A native of Texas, Kirkham earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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