, Assistant Professor
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Nadia White chafed at being assigned weather stories when she was a reporter in places where winter weather seemed so routine: Maine, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado. Once she became an editor in Wyoming, however, she assigned those stories with enthusiasm. In journalism, as in life, your view depends on where you sit.

She worked for the Casper Star-Tribune in central Wyoming as reporter, Washington D.C. correspondent and state editor. She was especially interested in the relationship between Wyoming and the rest of the world – bringing global news home – and natural resource issues related to the energy industry. She liked being editor best and worked hard to help reporters consider the varied perspectives of the residents of the Cowboy State. As a reporter she became interested in Yellowstone National Park’s challenges coping with the disease brucellosis. She maintained her interest in brucellosis as an editor and traveled to Kazakhstan to gain perspective on the brucellosis imbroglio back home. Supported by a grant through the International Center for Journalists, she examined how the former bastion of Soviet meat production tackled the disease in its cattle herds and wildlife. She continued her line of inquiry as a fellow with the Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado.

Nadia started her reporting career as a regular stringer for the Lewiston Sun in Maine while she was an assistant soccer coach for her alma mater, Bates College. She moved to Stillwater, Minn., where she wrote and edited full time for the Stillwater Evening Gazette. She left Minnesota to earn a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University. It may have been a reaction to the limited sight lines of Manhattan that led her to Casper and the high plains.

After covering Congress, the Interior Department and federal issues important to Wyoming from Washington D.C., she returned to the big square state as press secretary for the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Wyoming. She then worked at the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., covering higher education and the University of Colorado until she returned to Casper as state editor at the Star-Tribune.

In Missoula, she is working on a social history of brucellosis, but spices up her writing life by reporting occasionally on sports and education policy research for a variety of daily newspapers and other publications.

She lives and runs with her dog Emma, who is not so fond of Nadia’s other activities, such as backcountry skiing, paddling and ceramics.

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