Michael Kodas
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Michael Kodas is a photojournalist, author, and senior editor of Inside Climate News. He was the winner of the 2018 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction for his book, Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame, which was also named one of the 20 best nonfiction books of 2017 by Amazon.
Kodas is also the author of High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed, which was named Best Non-Fiction in USA Book News’ National Best Books Awards of 2008 and was the subject of a question on the game show Jeopardy.
In 1999 he was part of the team at The Hartford Courant awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting for their coverage of a mass shooting at the Connecticut Lottery.
Kodas has been honored with awards from the Pictures of Year International competition, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, the National Press Photographers Association, the Associated Press Managing Editors, the National Headliners Awards, and many other journalism competitions.
His photography was featured in the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary The Vietnam War, and he has appeared on the HBO program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, in the American Experience documentary The Big Burn on PBS, and in numerous other television and radio programs.
His photojournalism and reporting have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Denver Post, Newsweek, National Geographic News, Outside, Mother Jones, and various other publications around the world.
He was a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, a Davidoff Scholar at the Wesleyan Writers Workshop, and is a graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, where he completed programs in photojournalism and news writing.
