Michael Booth
Michael Booth is The Sun’s environment writer, and co-author of The Sun’s weekly climate and health newsletter The Temperature. He and John Ingold host the weekly SunUp podcast on The Temperature topics every Thursday.
He is co-author with Jennifer Brown of the Colorado Book Award-winning food safety investigation “Eating Dangerously.” Booth was part of teams that won two Pulitzer Prizes for breaking news. He also writes frequently about inexplicable obsessions that include tamarisk, black-footed ferrets and tire fires. Booth also serves as the underpaid driver for four children, and plans to eventually hike every inch of Colorado.
Job title: Environment reporter
Topic expertise: Environment, climate, health
Location: Denver
Newsletter: The Temperature, a dive into climate and health topics and put a special emphasis on where they intersect
Language(s) in addition to English: Is northern Minnesota English an option?
Education: Macalester College
Honors & Awards: Member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for Breaking News; Top of the Rockies beat reporting; National Education Writers Feature Writing; Colorado Book Award for Nonfiction
Professional membership(s): Society of Environmental Journalists
Contact:
Email: booth@coloradosun.com
X (Formerly Twitter): @mboothdenver
