His work has also been honored with Harvard University's Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, two White House Correspondent's Association awards and UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, among other honors. He has reported on a wide variety of subjects, including labor, public health, the environment, criminal justice, politics and international trade. In 2017, Hamby was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for his accounts of how multinational corporations use aggressive legal tactics to pressure governments around the world.

The book builds on Hamby's 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning series of reports about how a resilient Appalachian mining community fought back against a resurgence of black lung disease, the indifference of coal industry executives, and the complicity of doctors at Baltmore's prestigious Johns Hopkins hospital. Big coal companies-along with their allies in the legal and medical professions-have. In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize. Soul Full of Coal Dust A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia. Now, a conversation with New York Times investigative reporter Chris Hambyabout his new book, Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia, just published by Hachette Books (Little Brown). Buy a cheap copy of Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for.

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