A River Lost and Found

The Androscoggin in Time and Place

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Naomi Schalit

Naomi Schalit
Naomi Schalit

Naomi Schalit is the executive director and senior reporter for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a non-profit organization devoted to in-depth investigative journalism. A graduate of Princeton University, she also attended the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California at Berkeley. Naomi has written for magazines and newspapers around the country, worked as a columnist for the former Maine Times and for five years was a reporter and producer at Maine Public Radio. Naomi was also the executive director of Maine Rivers from 2002-05, a statewide environmental non-profit organization. Much of her reporting past and present has focused on Maine environmental politics. Schalit has two grown children and lives in Hallowell with her husband, John Christie.

Interview conducted on August 23, 2010 in Brunswick, Maine.

External links:

  • Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
  • Maine Rivers

Audio: click titles below to begin listening

      1. First time seeing the Androscoggin - Interview Excerpt #1

      2. The Androscoggin as Maine's "dirty dog" river - Interview Excerpt #2

      3. The shame of "Muskie's River" - Interview Excerpt #3

      4. No longer "business as usual" on the Androscoggin - Interview Excerpt #4

Filed Under: Oral Histories Tagged With: Naomi Schalit

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