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Marcellus Shale group launches new website to answer questions from Pennsylvania residents

BY JAY F. MARKS jmarks@opubco.com

PHILADELPHIA – The Marcellus Shale Coalition is attempting to answer all questions about natural gas development in southeastern Pennsylvania.

The industry organization fielded hundreds of questions from residents of the five-county area that includes about a third of Pennsylvania’s population.

Officials are concerned residents on the east side of Pennsylvania may not know much about the Marcellus Shale development at the other end of the state.

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.