Environmental journalism refers to reporting, writing, and storytelling that focuses specifically on environmental issues. It involves covering topics such as climate change, pollution, wildlife conservation, renewable energy, and sustainability. The purpose of
environmental journalism is to increase awareness, inform the public, and hold individuals and organizations accountable for their impact on the environment.
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Marie Orttenburger is an assistant editor and reporter for Great Lakes Echo, which operates out of the Knight Center
for Environmental Journalism in East Lansing, Mich..
Jim Detjen, the director of the Knight Center for
Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University, says that contrarian issues make for good headlines.
He
taught environmental journalism for two semesters at Brown University and directed the forestry programs of northern California's Mattole Restoration Council from 2006 to 2011.
Tom Yulsman, with whom I worked at Science Digest magazine in the early 1980s, when science journalism was a booming enterprise, has been exploring the (increasingly ugly) interface of science, media and public policy on the Center for
Environmental Journalism blog.
She was awarded a Ted Scripps
Environmental Journalism fellowship at the University of Colorado in 2004 and was part of a 2007 reporting team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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hile environmental journalism does serve an important role, the structure of society in the U.S. prevents environmental knowledge from becoming a real part of everyday life.
SEJ's Fund for
Environmental Journalism gifts grants of up to $ 3,500 to both members and non-members to help underwrite environmental reporting projects and entrepreneurial ventures.
SEJ sponsors its own contest to honor the year's
best environmental journalism in newspapers, magazines and newsletters and on television, radio and the Internet.
Listserve for SEJ Educators — SEJ operates the SEJ - edu e-mail listserv to serve as a forum for teachers and students to exchange information about teaching and
learning environmental journalism.
To address this gap, the Earth Journalism Network and our local partners are implementing the «Pacific Geojournalism Project:
Strengthening Environmental Journalism in the Pacific Islands to Build Community Reslience to Climate Change».
He brought this unusual combination of interests and talents to the university's
environmental journalism course as a first - year student — and wound up with the highest grade in the class.
The SEJ Emerging Environmental Journalist Award recognizes students with outstanding potential in
environmental journalism at institutions that SEJ members identify and help to develop a local selection process.
Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor at American University focused in part
on environmental journalism, sent this note in reaction to recent Climate Progress posts on climate and the media:
Member - to - member help has always been an important part of SEJ's mission to
improve environmental journalism, and that's what our mentoring program is all about.
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced today that InsideClimate News reporters Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer were awarded an honorable mention for «The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of» in the 2012 John B. Oakes Award for
Distinguished Environmental Journalism.
The John B. Oakes Award honors the career of the late John B. Oakes, a pioneer
of environmental journalism, who worked for The New York Times as a columnist, editorial writer, editor of the editorial page, and creator of the op - ed page.
• Breanna Draxler, staff writer: A graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, Draxler had an assistantship at the Center for
Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, where she earned her master's degree.
While in Indiana, she took a creative nonfiction course in nature writing, kindling a keen interest in
environmental journalism and natural history.
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my environmental journalism, the result has been lifelong engagement and, more recently, acceptance (if not full - scale embrace) of a lot of inconvenient truths that weren't in Al Gore's film.