Dusty Christensen

Dusty Christensen is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor whose work has appeared in outlets including The Nation magazine, NPR, The Boston Globe, Haaretz, WNYC radio, The Appeal, In These Times, and PBS. Locally, he has worked as the investigations editor at the independent local news outlet The Shoestring, as a reporter for New England Public Media, and as a staff writer for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. In 2018, he was one of the organizers of a successful campaign to unionize workers at the Gazette, and worked as a member organizer with the NewsGuild helping other journalists across the country unionize their newsrooms.

In 2019 and 2021, the New England Newspaper & Press Association named Dusty a finalist for best investigative reporting for his exposés on past abuses at the world-famous Clarke School for the Deaf and on corporate research agreements at Massachusetts’ flagship public university. In 2024, the Public Media Journalists Association awarded him second place in best digital writing for his investigation into 10 years of civilian complaints against the Holyoke Police Department.

Dusty served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine from 2012 to 2014. In 2020, he was a New England First Amendment Coalition journalism fellow.