June 26, 2024
Scott Blanchard
Scott Blanchard is editor of StateImpact Pennsylvania, a public radio reporting project covering the state’s energy economy. The collaboration brings together three stations – WITF (Harrisburg), WHYY (Philadelphia) and WESA (Pittsburgh) -as well as the environmental issues radio program The Allegheny Front. He was named a 2013 Ochberg Fellow, receiving training in PTSD science, self-help and peer support, and he received honorable mention for the Ochberg Society’s Mimi Award for editors that year. He led a team that created a trauma awareness/peer-support program in Digital First Media in 2014, the first time a U.S.-based local news organization undertook such an effort.