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The story behind the dam story

By Naomi Schalit
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By John Christie
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Published on: September 17, 2011
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The Megunticook East dam
Megunticook East dam in Camden, a high-hazard dam, was originally constructed more than 100 years ago. It lies upstream of downtown Camden and a residential neighborhood. Photo by John Christie

This spring, as part of the Center’s goal of training future journalists, John Christie and Naomi Schalit taught an investigative reporting class at Bates College in Lewiston.

The ten students in that class conducted important research for the Center’s recently published story about weaknesses in Maine’s dam safety program.

You can read all about the course in this dispatch from Bates Magazine.

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Naomi Schalit

Naomi Schalit is a co-founder of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, which operates The Maine Monitor.

She has written for magazines and newspapers around the country, worked as a columnist for the Maine Times and for five years was a reporter and producer at Maine Public. Naomi won many awards for her radio reporting, including one from Public Radio News Directors for her exposé of a historic state conservation deal gone bad.

In April 2005, she joined the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel as its opinion page editor. In 2007, she won first place in the New England AP News Editors’ competition for editorial writing, was a recipient of a Publick Occurrences Award from the New England Newspaper Association, received honorable mention accolades for the Anna Quindlen Award, was runner-up for Casey Journalism Awards and won first place for editorial writing in the National Sigma Delta Chi Awards, all for her multi-part editorial series on hunger in Maine, “For I Was Hungry.” That series also earned her the first “Force for Good” award given by the Portland nonprofit Preble Street.

Contact Naomi via email: moc.l1768931761iamg@1768931761godhc1768931761tawee1768931761rteni1768931761p1768931761

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John Christie

John Christie is the co-founder, former publisher and former senior reporter of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

He has covered local, state and national politics as a reporter, editor and publisher at newspapers in Maine, Massachusetts and Florida and holds a bachelor's in political science from the University of New Hampshire.

Contact John via email: moc.l1768931761iamg@1768931761retne1768931761cenia1768931761m1768931761



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