Profile: Sarah Terry-Cobo

Sarah has shown interest in Media Accountability, Environment

About Sarah Terry-Cobo

I am a freelance journalist based in the Bay Area, specializing in environmental science and policy and Latin American issues. Recently I have reported for California Watch’s news blog, The Daily Report, KQED’s Climate Watch series and NewsFix blog, the quarterly magazine Race, Poverty and the Environment and the hyper-local site Oakland Local.

Prior to that, I worked as a reporter and researcher at the Center for Investigative Reporting, for their award winning Carbon Watch series, digging deep into carbon markets, forest conservation projects and climate change legislation. Other notable gigs include: GreenBiz.com, Forbes.com and The Oakland Tribune.

I'm a native Oklahoman, where I graduated from the University of Tulsa with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Policy. In 2006 I moved to California to attend UC Berkeley, where I graduated with a master’s in journalism and master’s in Latin American studies.

Work Samples

The Price of Gas What's the price of gasoline? In the U.S. it's about $4 a gallon. But some experts say the true price of gas is much higher. What about the costs of pollution, and the global and local problems caused by it? Who pays for those? This animated feature from the Center for Investigative Reporting calculates the carbon footprint and other "external costs" of gasoline use in the U.S. Reported by Sarah Terry-Cobo Produced by Carrie Ching and Sarah Terry-Cobo Sound mix and editing by Carrie Ching Animation and illustration by Arthur Jones Sources: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/204228-price-of-gas-transcript.html US gas is artificially cheap: What we don't pay for at the pump