Kathleen Masterson
New England News Collaborative ReporterKathleen Masterson as VPR's New England News Collaborative reporter. She covered energy, environment, infrastructure and labor issues for VPR and the collaborative. Kathleen came to Vermont having worked as a producer for NPR鈥檚 science desk and as a beat reporter covering agriculture and the environment.
Kathleen covered food production for Harvest Public Media while based at Iowa Public Radio in Ames, Iowa. She wrote stories ranging from the risks of antibiotic use in livestock feed to how hedge fund managers visit corn fields to bet on the commodities market to how the fracking boom has spurred sand mining in Iowa. As a digital producer for NPR for several years, Kathleen reported science and health stories and produced multimedia series for NPR.org. She covered topics that ranged from human evolution to swine flu to the Affordable Care Act to plastic chemicals BPA and phthalates.
Kathleen has contributed work to NPR, Marketplace, Grist, and NPR-affiliates including KQED and WGBH. She also worked as a digital producer for PBS NOVA, a science writer for University of California, San Francisco and the Morning Edition producer/reporter for VPR.
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A Monkton resident who has had multiple Black Lives Matter signs stolen from his front yard is appealing to the community for support. John Mejia says the鈥� -
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England reports that they've received a large boost in donations in the weeks following this year's presidential鈥�
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In 2014, the Obama administration issued a federal memo aiming to put an end to random deportations of people living illegally in the U.S. who aren't鈥� -
A University of Vermont scientist recently won a $450,000 grant to continue his research that could one day lead to a new approach to treating a rare,鈥� -
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to deport millions of illegal immigrants with criminal records. It鈥檚 unclear how many people fit this category 鈥斺�� -
Lake Champlain water levels approached record lows this summer, which exposed acres of beach sand that would normally be underwater. This allowed some鈥� -
Sen. Patrick Leahy has won an eighth term representing Vermont in Washington, D.C. The incumbent senator, who was widely expected to win, garnered more鈥� -
One of the largest remaining elm trees in New England has died. But the wood from the 109-foot-tall slippery elm tree is heading on to a new life 鈥� as鈥� -
On its face, the purchase of Vermont-based Seventh Generation by the giant multinational Unilever seems like a straightforward a corporate buyout. But鈥� -
About 60 percent of Vermonters polled say they'd vote for Democratic incumbent Sen. Patrick Leahy, who has held the office since 1975. His challenger,鈥�
