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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Conservation biologists say that the good news for wildlife is there are still extensive tracts of forest habitat in the northeast. Yet as humans have鈥� -
A Burlington-based company working on climate change solutions has won a federal grant to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Vermont farms.鈥� -
Data from a University of Vermont researcher is helping the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service make the case that the rusty patched bumblebee should go on the鈥� -
The University of Vermont College of Medicine has announced that it鈥檚 receiving a $66 million gift, the largest ever made to a public university in New鈥� -
A man was shot and killed Friday night in Winooski by a deputy with the Franklin County Sheriff鈥檚 Department.In an email, Vermont State Police identified鈥�
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Once called the unofficial poet-laureate of the Northeast Kingdom, poet Leland Kinsey has died at the age of 66. Kinsey was born in Barton. He was a鈥� -
When you shop for cleaning supplies, brightly colored bottles advertise stain-removing powers or "whiter whites." But it鈥檚 hard to get clear information鈥� -
Even as wind and solar energy have grown to nearly 10 percent of New England's energy mix, they're still not a reliable power source. Wind and sunshine鈥� -
The city of Burlington is stopping its use of a pesticide that harms bees, even before the official rules are written that could ban its use on municipal鈥� -
Long before guns were invented, humans developed other approaches to hunt wild prey. The art of falconry is believed to have originated in China some鈥�
