Greg Schwartz
Verified- Investigative Reporter and Contributing Editor, PopMatters
- Journalist, Freelance
- None, Freelance, PopMatters
Greg Schwartz’s Biography
Greg M. Schwartz is an award-winning investigative journalist with two decades of experience covering public affairs across an array of news sectors, with a focus on environmental justice issues. Leveraging a proven track record for digging deeper than the mainstream media to uncover fresh dirt on the powers that be, he is a valuable asset for news outlets of any size that seek to uphold the watchdog mission of the 4th Estate.
Throughout his career, Greg has covered big picture stories with national ramifications at news outlets including EnviroNews, Counterpunch, the San Antonio Current, Austin Bulldog, East Bay Express, KPFA Evening News, San Francisco Bay View, Cleveland Free Times, and Ecowatch. He wields specific expertise in exposing regulatory capture and crooked science at government agencies, as well as the frequent clash between science and politics in environmental issues.
Topics he's covered include global climate change, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, NRC collusion at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on California’s central coast, nuclear disarmament, and regulatory capture leading to toxic environmental health issues surrounding EPA Superfund and military sites.
His 2009 San Antonio Current cover story “Crime Scene Cleanup” on the city’s "Toxic Triangle" area won a 2010 Lone Star Award for Investigative Reporting from the Houston Press Club. More recently, he was featured by the Society of Environmental Journalists as an SEJ Spotlight Reporter of the Week in April 2021. He is also a Contributing Editor with PopMatters.com, where he has covered music and pop culture on a freelance basis since 2006.
Greg holds a Master’s degree in Journalism & Mass Communication from Kent State University (in his native region of Northeast Ohio), and a Bachelor’s degree in Film Studies from San Francisco State University. He also served on Kent State’s May 4th Task Force in 2005-06, the student group that staged the annual commemoration of the 1970 campus massacre by the National Guard. There he was selected in 2005 to appear on a nationally televised panel with former students from the 1970 era titled, “Student Activism: Then and Now”. He then spoke for slain student Jeffrey Miller at the 2006 commemoration before thousands of attendees. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.