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Danelle Morton

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Vallejo, California, United States

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  • ProPublica
    Railway safety reporter
    ProPublica
    Apr 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 9 months)
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    Co-Founder
    Flipturn Studios
    Apr 2021 - Current (5 years 7 months)
    Nonfiction podcast studio producing City of the Rails with IHEART https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/city-of-the-rails/id1664440759?i=1000602263671
  • University of Iowa
    Distinguished Professional In Residence
    University of Iowa
    Apr 2012
    Spoke with students at the journalism school and faculty about writing and interviewing technique, journalism in the digital age, public relations from the journalist's perspective, and long form narrative journalism. Also asked to speak about my experiences as a foreign correspondent and when to use the first person in journalism.
  • Self Employed
    ghostwriter/journalist/author/collaborator
    Self Employed
    Jul 1999 - Current (27 years 4 months)
  • Self Employed
    journalist/author/collaborator
    Self Employed
    Jun 1999 - Current (27 years 5 months)
    Co-author of 11 non-fiction books including three bestsellers
  • People Magazine
    Associate Bureau Chief
    People Magazine
    Jan 1998 - Feb 1999 (1 year 2 months)
    People Magazine Los Angeles Bureau. Responsible for celebrity profiles including cover stories with Tom Hanks, Margot Kidder, Celine Dion, Robert Redford. Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan and Harrison
  • Time Warner
    associate bureau chief
    Time Warner
    Jan 1996 - Jan 1999 (3 years 1 month)
    Cover stories -- responsible for negotiating with celebrities for cover stories, or leading the team that would write the story without celebrity cooperation
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    Staff Correspondent People Magazine
    Los Angeles Bureau
    May 1994 - Jan 1999 (4 years 9 months)
    General assignment celebrity coverage, including crisis reporting on catastrophic celebrity disasters.
  • V
    Freelance journalist
    Various magazines
    Jun 1993 - May 1994 (1 year)
    My work appeared regularly in New Woman, Marie Claire and West magazines
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    lead features reporter
    The San Gabriel Valley Tribune Pasadena Star News
    May 1993 - Apr 1994 (1 year)
    feature writer
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    Staff Writer
    The San Jose Mercury News
    Aug 1986 - May 1988 (1 year 10 months)
    General coverage of the San Francisco Peninsula and Palo Alto. Also wrote a weekly column.
  • H
    Beat Reporter
    Hudson Dispatch
    Aug 1981 - Jan 1983 (1 year 6 months)
    Covered city news in this wildly corrupt town, experiencing stories of the shenanigans and small-time grifters that will last me a lifetime.
  • The Washington Times
    Foreign Correspondent
    The Washington Times
    Oct 1984 - Jun 1986 (1 year 9 months)
    Traveled throughout Asia including Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Australia while covering murder, revolution, political and economic upheaval for this widely distrusted newspaper.
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    State Capitol Bureau Chief
    Washington Times
    Jan 1983 - Oct 1984 (1 year 10 months)
    The Washington Times: Chased escaped death-row inmates, moonshiners in the Virginia countryside and political controversies in the state legislature.
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  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    American History (United States)
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
    Jan 2023 - Jul 2026 (3 years 7 months)
  • University of California
    University of California
    University of California
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    high school
    High school
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    Online marketing/fundraising
    Feb 2011 - Jun 2011 (5 months)
    Raised $7000 in four months in and intensive campaign to fund my research on my investigation into the deaths of eight young traveling kids for The Boston Review.
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    A World On Fire: Life And Death In A New Orleans Squat
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2012 (1 year 1 month)
    A year-long investigation into the death of eight young trainhoppers who perished in a squat fire in New Orleans. After publication, the story was featured in Longreads, on Talk Of The Nation, http://www.npr.org/2012/01/24/145732721/the-dangerous-lives-of-runaway-squatters Here and Now on WBUR, http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/01/24/new-orleans-travelers and drive time radio in Montreal.
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    A War of Values
    May 2008 - Dec 2009 (1 year 8 months)
    My year-and-a-half investigation into the voracious real estate acquisitions of one San Francisco family was a finalist for the American Society of Magazine Editors award for public affairs, the category that includes investigative journalism.
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    City of the Rails
    City of the Rails is a 10-episode podcast series about a mother's search to find her teenaged daughter when she leaves home to hop freight trains. Using her skills as a journalist, she explore her daughter's new life and uncovers a world few know exists, one of hobos and rail cops and railroad companies still operating by the rules of the wild west. The series has yielded 750,000 downloads and counting.
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    PEN USA Literary Non-fiction Award finalist for "A World On Fire: Life and Death In A New Orleans Squat" Boston Review
    PEN USA
    Aug 2013
    The international literary society PEN USA only chose three candidates from all of the submissions for the final round of this prestigious award. I didn't win, but I am a great admirer of the other finalist Alan Prendergast's story "The Happiest Man On Death Row." Happy to be in such good company!
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    Finalist
    American Society of Magazine Editors Award
    Apr 2010
    War Of Values, my 18-month investigation into rent manipulation in San Francisco apartment buildings was a finalist for the national magazine award in the Public Service (investigative journalism) category
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    Inconceivable
    HarperOne
    Feb 2011
    Inconceivable, the story of a heartbreaking act of generosity. It was Carolyn Savage’s last chance to have a baby but she mistakenly was implanted with the wrong embryo during an IVF procedure. She and her husband decided to bear the child and give it to the other couple. Two-hour Dateline special Febuary 11, 2011 Lifetime movie in production. 150,000 initial printing.
  • Hyperion
    Not My Boy
    Hyperion
    Mar 2010
    A touching story of the father's role in raising an autistic child told from the point of view of football star Rodney Peete
  • Random House
    Staying True
    Random House
    Feb 2010
    Staying True with Jenny Sanford, wife of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, whose affair with an Argentinean woman thrust the whole family into the national spotlight. Spent five weeks on the NYT bestseller list, topping out at #4
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    Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover The Natural Choices and Take Back the Birth Experience
    Hachette Grand Central
    May 2009
    A book inspired by the popular documentary The Business of Being Born describing how to woman get the kind of birth you want.
  • Viking
    You're Lucky You're Funny
    Viking
    Oct 2006
    Inside the world of sitcoms with the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond.
  • St Martins Press
    Are You Hungry, Dear?
    St Martins Press
    Apr 2003
    Memoir with Doris Roberts covering her seven decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. The book was listed on the bestseller rankings in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.
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    Fear Less
    Little Brown
    Jan 2002
    About protecting yourself in the age of terrorism, published in a white heat after four intense months of work. Got to number seventeen on The New York Times bestseller list.
  • Hyperion
    The Healing Power of Pets
    Hyperion
    Feb 2001
    A book on the way animal companions can help in the healing process with Good Morning American veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker.
  • P
    Codes of Love
    Pocket Books division of Simon and Shuster
    Oct 1999
    A book co-written with Artists Way author Mark Bryan, which details a step-by-step process to help families reconnect after an estrangement.
  • B
    Managing Martians
    Broadway Books
    Jul 1998
    About the Pathfinder robot that went to Mars co-authored with JPL project manager Donna Shirley.
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