Tristan Baurick is a reporter for Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to produce in-depth journalism in underserved communities in the New Orleans area. Before joining Verite in 2024, Baurick was a coastal and environment reporter at The Times-Picayune | Nola.com. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, ProPublica, and Audubon. Baurick has earned first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and National Association of Science Writers, and was a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for environmental journalism. He has also won the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Nina Mason Pulliam Award and its top investigative reporting prize.