Christopher Tyree
Awards
Society of Environmental Journalists Award
2018 - Outstanding Explanatory Reporting
Honorable Mention "Invisibles: The Plastic Inside Us" by Christopher Tyree and Dan Morrison for www.orbmedia.org, The Guardian, Public Radio International, the Irish Independent, Bild, Deutsche Welle, SVK (Slovakia), La Repubblica, Cadena SER radio (Spain, Panama, Colombia, Argentina), El Universal (Mexico), Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil), the East African, the Indian Express, Dhaka Tribune/Bangla Tribune, and Koran Tempo (Indonesia) Story links: Multimedia Text Audio Data Orb Community Judges' comments: The sheer magnitude of effort in bringing original academic research into reporting to answer an important question about plastics in our drinking water is astounding. All the multimedia elements, including the quizzes, data, video and infographics worked well.
Short list Association of British Science Writers
2018 - Best Investigative Journalism
Best investigative journalism Team: Damian Carrington, Dan Morrison & Chris Tyree for “Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals” published by The Guardian