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on Environmental Journalism Grantham Prize Seminar Free to Public How Fair is Reporting on China's Environment?
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on Environmental Journalism: Metcalf Institute Diversity Fellows Announced Article Argues for Press Freedom to Stop Climate Change Has Green Journalism Jumped the Shark?
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:
Not exact matches
In addition, the following 2 - year master's degree programs offer their
journalism students the option to focus
on medical, basic science, or
environmental reporting:
Further research
on citizen
journalism is underway with indigenous peoples in the Arctic region and finding out how their blogging could drive change
on major
environmental and cultural issues.
I'll occasionally post
on Medium.com/@revkin, as with the recent repost of a 2005 lecture that is more relevant than ever: «Can There Be Passion and Detachment in
Environmental Journalism?»
Reflecting
on those deadline crunches makes me chuckle now that I live in the nonstop world of online
journalism and social media through myDot Earth blog, in which I explore how humans can navigate this fast - forward century with the fewest
environmental and social regrets.
Here are a few highlights from
Environmental Journalism Today: House Democrats to Let Ban
on Drilling Expire: «Congressional Democrats bowed to political pressure yesterday and agreed to let the ban
on offshore oil drilling expire, a decision that would allow exploration just three miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines unless the next president reinstates an executive branch order that prohibits drilling.
Dip in
on #enviroed (
environmental education), #edtech (technology in the classroom), #wjchat (Web
journalism), #birdclass (a University of Connecticut course in bird biology and behavior) to get the idea.
Curtis Brainard, who assesses
environmental coverage for the Columbia
Journalism Review online, in a comprehensive piece
on the move, said: «[T] he decision to eliminate the positions seems particularly misguided at a time when world events would seem to warrant expanding science and
environmental staff.»
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 Journa
journalism was a booming enterprise, has been exploring the (increasingly ugly) interface of science, media and public policy
on the Center for
Environmental JournalismJournalism blog.
There's more
on various possible roles and stances for scientists at the Center for
Environmental Journalism blog.
The League of Conservation Voters generated quite a bit of buzz
on environmental (and
journalism) blogs this week after it launched a new campaign pressing America's most - watched political reporters to bring up global warming more often
on all those influential Sunday talk shows.
Washington Post: «Skeptic firebrand» Morano praises recession's impact
on climate reporting: «
Environmental journalism has improved dramatically with these cut - backs and the loss of these activist reporters... got rid of some of their alarmist reporters»
on the full - time faculty or are students at an accredited college, university, or other school and have an interest in
environmental journalism and / or
environmental issues.
He is a graduate of Michigan State University's
Journalism School, where he focused
on topics covered by the Knight Center for
Environmental Journalism and wrote for the Great Lakes Echo.
Both spoke at the Carbonundrums workshop
on making sense of climate change reporting around the world, organized by Oxford University's
Environmental Change Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of
Journalism.
As Director of the Third Pole Project, run jointly by chinadialogue and Internews» Earth
Journalism Network, Joydeep Gupta writes and commissions articles
on climate change, biodiversity, pollution and sustainable development for the bilingual
environmental news website www.thethirdpole.net.
In response to a letter from science and
journalism organizations criticizing the agency's restrictive policy
on public communications by Science Advisory Board members,
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy has asked the EPA Science Adviser to review the policy.
With SEJ currently celebrating its 25th anniversary year, we asked some of the society's founders — among them luminaries in the
environmental journalism profession — to share their thoughts
on what the organization has meant to the field, where SEJ is going next and what they see as the big
environmental stories of our time.
Journalism major Colleen Otte has covered a wide range of
environmental topics for Great Lakes Echo, including stories about the impact of climate change
on Isle Royale National Park, the use of satellite imagery to study lake trout spawning areas, solar energy incentives and the expanding wild - and - urban interfaces in the Great Lakes Basin.
There does seem to be a persistence of low - grade enviro - journalists, some of whom still trot out the «declining temperatures» assertion, but I think that this is more indicative of a much broader problem with the standards in
journalism today and the guff that exists between the
environmental journalists» scientific understanding and the motives of the scientists / pseudo-scientists they either hero - worship or (cripplingly uncritically) pen - push press releases
on their behalf.