Hal Bernton has worked in journalism for more than four decades. He was a staff reporter for The Seattle Times from 2000 to March 2023 and previously worked in Alaska for more than a decade with the Anchorage Daily News. The Oregonian, The Twin Falls Times News, and columnist Jack Anderson have also employed him. He was part of a reporting team at the Anchorage Daily News that received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting on Alaska's Native peoples, and a team at the Seattle Times, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for reporting on a landslide that killed 43 people. He has won numerous other awards, including this year's Alaska Press Club award for best environmental reporting. Hal has written extensively on energy, environment, and fisheries issues, and his overseas reporting includes dispatches from Haiti, China, Indonesia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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