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Fellow: Tim Shorrock
Tim Shorrock is an independent journalist whose articles have appeared in Salon, The Progressive, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Harper's Weekly.
Biography

Tim Shorrock is an independent journalist who has been writing about corporate globalization, labor, and U.S. foreign policy for more than 25 years. He grew up in Japan and South Korea during the height of the Cold War, and he returned to the United States in 1969. After attending Earlham College—a Quaker school in Richmond, Indiana—he worked in a succession of blue-collar jobs before going back to school, in Asian Studies, at the University of Oregon, where he received a master's degree in 1980. Since then, he has worked as a journalist and a corporate researcher for labor unions. During the 1990s, he was a correspondent in the Washington bureau of the Journal of Commerce, a daily transportation newspaper published first by Knight-Ridder and later by The Economist. At the Journal of Commerce he covered the global maritime industry, international trade, and Congress. Shorrock's articles have appeared in many publications at home and abroad, including Salon, The Progressive, The Nation, Mother Jones, and Harper's Weekly. He now lives in Memphis, Tennessee, with his wife, Kathy McGregor, a nurse, storyteller and union organizer.

Shorrock got interested in writing about Hurricane Katrina after his wife volunteered at the Common Ground free clinic in New Orleans in the weeks after the storm. He spent several weeks in New Orleans in October 2005 and January 2006 to write about Common Ground, and has returned to the Big Easy and Mississippi's Gulf Coast many times since. Shorrock has a daughter, Roxanne, who is a student at the University of Maryland.

Fellow's Project
Tim Shorrock has been reporting on post-Katrina economic development and the health care crisis in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast.
Main Image: Rebuilding, Inc.
Print America Under Surveillance America Under Surveillance
Print Casino Interests Hit the Jackpot in Post-Katrina Development Casino Interests Hit the Jackpot in Post-Katrina Development
Print Energy Companies See Gulf Coast as LNG Gateway Energy Companies See Gulf Coast as LNG Gateway
Print Gambling with Biloxi Gambling with Biloxi
Print The Street Samaritans The Street Samaritans
Print Why Didn't the Buses Come? Why Didn't the Buses Come?