{"id":526,"date":"2012-06-13T14:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/androscoggin-river-in-time-and-place\/?p=526"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:37:34","slug":"naomi-schalit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/androscoggin-river-in-time-and-place\/oral-histories\/naomi-schalit\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Schalit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-535\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-535\" title=\"Naomi Schalit\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/androscoggin-river-in-time-and-place\/files\/2012\/05\/naiomi-schalit.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi Schalit\" width=\"300\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/androscoggin-river-in-time-and-place\/files\/2012\/05\/naiomi-schalit.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/androscoggin-river-in-time-and-place\/files\/2012\/05\/naiomi-schalit-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/androscoggin-river-in-time-and-place\/files\/2012\/05\/naiomi-schalit-250x329.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Schalit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Interview conducted on August 23, 2010 in Brunswick, Maine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>External links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/pinetreewatchdog.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/pinetreewatchdog.org\/\">Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"http:\/\/mainerivers.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/mainerivers.org\/\">Maine Rivers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Audio: <\/strong>click titles below to begin listening<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  verdana-mjp\" style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:14px;\">1. First time seeing the Androscoggin<span> - Interview Excerpt #1<\/span><\/span><span class=\"indi_mp3j\" style=\"font-size:9.8px;\" id=\"statusMI_0\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><span class=\"s-nosolution\" id=\"mp3j_nosolution_0\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><script>\nMP3jPLAYLISTS.inline_0 = [\n\t{ name: \"1. 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