Scott Fallon Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Senior reporter covering healthcare for the USA TODAY NETWORK serving 10 newspapers and websites in New Jersey including The Bergen Record and The Asbury Park Press. Lead the Network's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two years in one of the nation's hardest hit states. Coverage included everything from outbreaks to vaccine distribution to years-long investigations into the high death toll at New Jersey's veterans homes with reporting partner Lindy Washburn.Articles are routinely published nationally via USA TODAY, MSN, Yahoo, and wire services.Co-authored the 2018 four-part, multi-media series Toxic Secrets which showed how DuPont worked for decades to downplay the extent of contamination in a small New Jersey town and then spent years refusing to test homes for contamination while residents were being exposed to toxic fumes. The series was published nationwide via the USA Today Network and won the Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists' national competition. The NJ Attorney General sued DuPont in March 2019 for its pollution in Pompton Lakes and credited the series. Co-authored "The War On Plastics" - an ongoing series showing how plastics pollution is inundating New Jersey's beaches, rivers and wildlife. Chosen as the keynote speaker at a 2019 Rutgers University conference on "Impacts of Microplastics in the Urban Environment."Appeared regularly on WNYC - America's most listened-to public radio station - including "Morning Edition," "All Things Considered," "The Midday Show" and "All of It with Alison Stewart."

• Wrote the three-part investigative series "A Neighborhood In Peril" documenting how environmental regulators allowed cancer-causing chromium to migrate under a neighborhood of 600 homes in Garfield, NJ. The series won the 2012 Community Service Award from The Society of Silurians, a first place award from the New Jersey Press Association and is a finalist for a Deadline Club Award. • One of the lead reporters on the environmental series "Toxic Landscape" that was recognized by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. in its "Year in Investigative Reporting (2010)." • Promoted to environmental writer in 2008 for New Jersey’s largest news organization after several years covering politics and urban issues. • Named a senior writer in 2005, becoming one of the youngest reporters at The Record to reach the position.• While covering Paterson - NJ's third largest city - co-wrote “The Flipside of Home Ownership” which detailed an inner-city real estate scheme involving government-backed mortgages. The award-winning project prompted a state investigation and reforms in city inspections. • Covered several major news events including:- The 9/11 attacks (2001)- The Northeast Blackout (2003)- The resignation of NJ Governor Jim McGreevey (2004) - The 9/11 Commission hearings (2004) - The Republican National Convention (2004)- The midtown plane crash that killed Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle (2006) - The resignation on NY Governor Eliot Spitzer (2008) - The “miracle” crash of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River (2009). - Hurricane Irene (2011)- Hurricane Sandy (2012)- U.S. Senator Cory Booker's election and NJ Governor Chris Christie's reelection (2013)-The Hoboken Rail Crash (2016)

• Awarded a fellowship by Syracuse to teach two journalism classes at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication and study public policy at the Maxwell School of Citizenship.

• Assigned to the South Jersey Bureau as a correspondent covering local communities and breaking news across the state. Promoted to state and federal courthouse beat. • Lead reporter on the state’s top environmental issue: a rash of childhood cancer cases in Toms River. Broke stories that were picked up by wire services and national media.• Reported on the lack of radar devices on most Air Force planes after a mid-air collision involving a cargo plane from New Jersey. Picked up by other news organizations and helped usher in reforms in military airplane safety.

• Worked nights as a stringer on the city desk covering breaking news throughout New York while completing my undergraduate degree at NYU during the day. • Researched and wrote the paper’s "1996 Year In Review" special section.

• Wrote 70 articles in 13-weeks including five cover stories from the Queens Bureau. • Contributed to Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island.

Ba, Journalism/History

• Graduated a semester early with honors • Received the Draper Scholarship for academic achievement • Awarded the Editor and Publisher.

Public Policy

• Awarded a graduate-level fellowship by the university. Spent a semester examining a non-profit agency that helps ex-convicts reintegrate.

Non-Profit Institutions

• Awarded a fellowship from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to study non-profit agencies at Ole Miss.