Daniel Shailer

Reporter, The Shetland Times

United Kingdom

Daniel Shailer is a reporter for the Shetland Times.

Previously he's worked as a correspondent with the Associated Press' Central and South America bureau in Mexico City, and with the Tucson Sentinel in southern Arizona, where he covered everything from mining and waste to local politics and conservation.

As a freelance reporter Daniel was a regular contributor to the Guardian, Pulitzer-winning Inside Climate News and Mongabay. His reporting has also appeared in the New Yorker, Scientific American, Hakai Magazine, New Lines, Atlas Obscura, Gothamist and Business Insider. He has written essays for the LA Review of Books and Literary Hub, and contributed regularly to UK-based Outdoor Swimmer Magazine.

Daniel has written narrative features, investigations and news articles with photo, audio and data.

Daniel's stories on water pollution in New York City won awards from the Overseas Press Club and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He didn't win a national award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia in 2024 for his reporting on mining in Southern Arizona, but he did come third. He was also not Covering Climate Now's 2023 student journalist of the year, but at least he was shortlisted.

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The New Yorker
08/21/2023
Tits Out Under the Verrazzano

Leslie Hamilton, an accountant, battled sea lice and rusting garbage barges as she became the first person on record to swim a lap around Staten Island since 1979.

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Mongabay Environmental News
07/17/2024
After 2-year wait, Sonoran wilderness protection law gets closer to reality

SAHUARIPA, Mexico - Where saguaro cacti give way to palm trees, some 130 miles south of the U.S. border, a small ranching town is quietly obsessed with jaguars (Panthera onca). Jaguar murals adorn walls, and local ranchers, usually demure and mustachioed, treasure their printouts of big cats caught on camera traps.