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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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.