Colleen Hagerty

Colleen Hagerty

is a California-based journalist telling narrative stories through video, print, and social media. She specializes in covering disasters, including deeply-reported features, and dives into how policies and technologies impact mitigation, effects, and recovery. You can find her work across BBC News and PBS outputs, as well as in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Popular Science, Vox, and High Country News, among other outlets. She also has a newsletter about disasters, My World’s on Fire, which was shortlisted for a 2022 Covering Climate Now award.


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YES! Media to Sunset June 2025

After nearly 30 years of independent journalism rooted in justice, imagination, and solutions, YES! Media will sunset operations at the end of June 2025. This decision follows years of tireless efforts to secure a sustainable path forward. We are heartbroken but we are also incredibly proud. Proud of what we built. Proud of who we built it with. And proud of the impact that YES! has had on the world.

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