2023 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism

Michael Shellenberger won the 2023 Dao Grand Prize, $100,000, with Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss for their Twitter Files. You can find the reporting here.

Michael Shellenberger is Founder-President of Environmental Progress, a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” Green Book Award winner, Dao Journalism Prize Winner, and C.B.R. Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin.

Shellenberger is a leading investigative journalist who has broken major stories on crime and drug policy; homelessness; Amazon deforestation; rising climate resilience; growing eco-anxiety; the U.S. government’s role in the fracking revolution; and climate change and California’s fires. And he testifies and advises governments around the world including in the United States, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, and the Netherlands.

Michael has been called a “environmental guru,” “climate guru,” “North America’s leading public intellectual on clean energy,” and “high priest” of the environmental humanist movement for his writings and TED talks, which have been viewed over five million times.

Michael lives in Berkeley, California. You can follow him on X or email him by clicking here.