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Mason Adams

Contributing Editor  . 

Mason Adams is a contributing editor at Canary Media who compiles the Southeast Energy News newsletter. He has worked as a journalist since 2001, covering Appalachian communities and the issues that affect them. He worked as a wildlife biologist before moving into journalism by freelancing at Coast Weekly in Monterey, California, and interning at High Country News. He wrote for the Enterprise Mountaineer in western North Carolina and the Roanoke Times in western Virginia before going freelance in 2012. His work has appeared in Southerly, Daily Yonder, Mother Jones, Huffington Post, WVPB’s Inside Appalachia, and elsewhere. Mason was born and raised in Clifton Forge, Virginia, and now lives with his family in Floyd County, Virginia.

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