Craig LeMoult is a Senior News Reporter for National Public Radio member-station WSHU in Fairfield, CT. Craig has had feature stories run nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Marketplace. He regularly contributes to the national NPR newscast. Craig has won a number of national and regional awards for his reporting, including the national Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for feature reporting (2011), the national PRNDI award for best news feature (2009) and second place in the national Society of Environmental Journalists contest for "outstanding story, radio" (2007).
In addition to WSHU, Craig's radio stories have aired on WNYC in New York City, New England Public Radio, WNPR in Hartford, CT, WILL in Urbana, IL, CKMO in Victoria, B.C., KUOW in Washington and other public radio stations.
Craig's print stories have been published in the Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Providence Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Austin American Statesman, Detroit News, New York Observer, Arizona Republic, Kansas City Star and other publications.
Craig is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Tufts University. He has also worked in public relations for Columbia University and Tufts.
- Craig was interviewed for a colloquia at Sacred Heart University on media and trauma. (Video) (Fairfield Sun story)
- Craig created and is editing/producing the radio series and news blog State of Disparity, about issues related to economic disparity in Connecticut
- Craig was interviewed on the SPJ podcast about his story that won the national Sigma Delta Chi award
- Craig was featured in a CBS News story about kidney donation.
- Craig was chosen for and participated in the Science Literacy Project fellowship - an intensive, six-day training fellowship on science journalism for public radio reporters in April, 2011
- Craig interviewed tennis legend Patrick McEnroe on stage as part of WSHU's Join the Conversation lecture series
- Craig was interviewed on Here & Now about an explosion at a Conn. power plant
- Craig's story on a birdwatching expedition to Ethiopia was featured on NPR's "Story of the Day" and "Most Emailed Stories" podcasts
- Craig's coverage of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings for NPR's national newscast was featured on NPR's news blog, "The Two-Way"
- Craig's feature on Wall St. and Main St. was chosen as NPR's "Story of the Day" on Oct. 3, 2008
- Craig did a live Q&A on WNYC's Morning Edition on Nov. 5 about Chris Shays losing his Congressional seat to Jim Himes
- Craig's profile of a Bridgeport, CT teen and his mentor was featured on the NPR "Station Showcase with PRX" podcast
- Craig was interviewed for an article in the Winter 07-08 Columbia Journalism Alumni Journal. (Left column, "Bosses List Broadcast Essentials")
CONTACT: craig.lemoult@gmail.com; TWITTER: @clemoult