Molly Peterson

Reporter

Awards

  • 2010: Associated Press Television & Radio Association, Mark Twain Award, Best Radio Investigative Reporting (tie)
  • 2010: Investigative Reporters & Editors, Finalist, radio investigative reporting, "Pumps Under Pressure"
  • 2010: L.A. Press Club, Best Breaking News, Radio, Station Fire (reporter)
  • 2010: L.A. Press Club, Best Investigative/Series, Radio
  • 2010: L.A. Press Club, Best Online News Story/Series, "Pumps Under Pressure"
  • 2010: L.A. Press Club, Radio Reporter of the Year for 2009
  • 2010: Public Radio News Directors Inc., Div. A, First Place, Enterprise/Investigative
  • 2009: Golden Mike, Radio Television News Association, best radio individual writing
  • 2009: Golden Mike, Radio Television News Association, best radio investigative reporting
  • 2008: L.A. Press Club, Best Investigative/Series, Radio
  • 2006: Society of Environmental Journalists award, Radio Reporting, Large Market
  • 2003: Public Radio News Directors Inc., Best Series (with KQED)
  • 2002: AP Northern California Regional Award, for The California Report
  • 2002: Association of Women in Radio & Television, Gracie Award, for "Working Women" (Justice Talking/NPR)
  • 2002: Association of Women in Radio and Television, for "Present at the Creation" (as reporter/NPR)

Molly Peterson came to KPCC from New Orleans, where she lived after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She came to public radio after UC Hastings College of the Law, interning for Nina Totenberg during the Clinton impeachment hearings. In between, she worked at National Public Radio, at KQED's California Report, and at American Routes. With Eve Troeh, she made a nationally-aired radio documentary about New Orleans called Finding Solid Ground.

She studied international politics and the environment at Georgetown University, and was fortunate never to take a law school class from her tough-grading grandfather, Raymond Sullivan, who taught at Hastings after leaving the California Supreme Court in 1977. She was also lucky enough to grow up climbing northern California trees and fishing eastern Sierra waters.

She's always looking for recommendations about where to take her (repaired) sea kayak. And for that matter, where to store it.

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Recent Bylines

Leavin' on a jet plane, and your carbon will cost you Feb. 2, 2012
Ocean plastic joined by microplastic; new study describes surprising source of detritus Feb. 1, 2012
Critters get a national climate change adaptation strategy Jan. 31, 2012
Burbank Water & Power's new 'eco-campus' in photos Jan. 30, 2012
Are marine mammals harmed by Navy sonar on West Coast? Jan. 30, 2012
California regulators pass new clean car guidelines Jan. 27, 2012
Public comment ends for solar 'road map' Jan. 27, 2012
Song of the Week: "Smoggy Mountain High," for clean cars Jan. 27, 2012
Photo of the Day: Watch the vivid yellow of the sun's coronal mass ejection Jan. 26, 2012
SoCal Edison to hold public forum on wind response Jan. 25, 2012
Brown releases environmental reform package Jan. 25, 2012
America's Cup draws Sailors for the Sea to California Jan. 25, 2012
"An Inconsistent Truth" features Newt Gingrich (but probably not Gingrich's inconsistent global warming truth) Jan. 24, 2012
The Blank's staged reading about climatologist Dave Keeling Jan. 23, 2012
Pacific Swell's latest song of the week, for forestry issues Jan. 20, 2012