Feature Writing

Denise Hruby is an environment and enterprise journalist and was a 2024 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She focuses on climate enterprise stories and features at The Miami Herald and has written for The New York Times, National Geographic Magazine, The Washington Post, and CNN. As a reporter, senior editor, and correspondent, she has been based in China, Southeast Asia, and in her native home, Austria. She was named Young Environmental Journalist of the Year in 2014 by the Singapore Environment Council and won several awards from The Society of Publishers in Asia as well as by Amnesty International. Hruby has also received multiple grants and fellowships, including the Logan Science Journalism Fellowship, a fellowship from the International Women's Media Foundation in South Sudan and Uganda, and a science journalism fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has taught journalism at universities in China, Cambodia, and Austria, as well as at Florida International University and at Harvard.