TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam talked with the Iowa Starting Line Cornhole Champions podcast about Iowa’s rising cancer rates and dire drinking water pollution problems. From EPA officials grilling pork chops with polluters to the revolving door between Big Ag and government regulators, this episode explores how corporate money corrupts the science that should protect us all. Read more.
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Carey Gillam is Editor in Chief of The New Lede. Gillam is a veteran investigative journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering US news, including 17 years as a senior correspondent with Reuters international news service (1998-2015), and several years as a contributing writer for The Guardian. She is the author of “Whitewash- The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science,” an expose of Monsanto’s corporate corruption of agriculture. The book won the coveted Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists in 2018. Her second book, a narrative legal thriller titled "The Monsanto Papers", was released in 2021. Gillam is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
