I’m the primary author and editor of HEATED, a weekly newsletter and podcast dedicated to original accountability reporting and analysis on the climate crisis, which I founded in 2019.

Previously, I was the climate staff writer at The New Republic, and the deputy climate editor at ThinkProgress. I also covered national politics for Sinclair Broadcast Group and federal courts for Law360. My written work has appeared in GQ Magazine, Newsweek, Slate, Mother Jones, and other places.

My mentor was the late investigative journalist Wayne Barrett. ”It was always the conduct that prodded me to write, not the person,” he wrote. “And that is what I lived for, a chance to say something that revealed and mattered. To me, the story will always be the thing. It is all I can see.”

Do you see a story? Help me see it: emilyatkin(at)heated(dot)world. Or find me on Bluesky.