Explore America's rivers, coasts and shores. Dive into waterways and waterway data with FishViews' virtual reality tours comprising high-resolution, water-level imagery. Share the tour links with your audience.
EPN's bipartisan volunteers have backgrounds in environmental programs at the federal state and local levels, including scientists, engineers, economists, lawyers and others. Reporters who seek deep understanding of EPA programs, their origins and how they work in practice will find on their website budget analyses, comments on rulemakings and on U.S. EPA policies and priorities, and more.
Are you an SEJ member who's authored, co-authored or edited a non-fiction or fiction environmental book (published in 2016) you'd like included on this page? Documentaries are also welcome. Please send the following to web content manager Cindy MacDonald:
Leaking is back. Today, all the best stories are based on leaks. Journalists are discovering that if the EPA press office puts out a story, it probably isn't news and may not even be true.
For some while it's been pretty clear that reporters have only slim chances of getting useful help from the US EPA press office — or the equivalent at many (not all) other agencies. If you expect nothing from the press office, you will rarely be disappointed. But don't be afraid of them; that's what they want. Here are some pro tips to aid your reporting.
Here is a list of resources mentioned in the Oct. 6, 2017, concurrent session on "Working Around PIOs Who Don’t Live Up to Their Titles" at the SEJ Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.
SEJ brought 44 member journalists to Dallas, Texas, April 20-23, 2017 for an expenses-paid workshop to examine the changing landscape of environmental regulation. Attendees heard from top experts in environmental law and the science of communicating to news consumers, as well as receiving training in FOIA, databases and key digital storytelling tools. Here are resources and tools from the workshop to aid you in your reporting. Photo: UC Berkeley prof/linguist George Lakoff; courtesy of Dale Willman.
Here you'll find informative and interesting podcasts by SEJ members and other journalists, such as Leaving the Island by SEJ member Olga Loginova. This investigative podcast exposes the mistakes and examines the lessons learned from the first federal attempt to resettle an entire community — from Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana — because of climate change.
Are you an SEJ member who's authored, co-authored or edited a non-fiction or fiction environmental book (published in 2015) you'd like included on this page? Documentaries are also welcome. Please send the following to web content manager Cindy MacDonald:
SEJ members Adam Glenn and Julia Kumari Drapkin partner with New York public radio flagship WNYC on a new participatory sensor reporting project exploring urban heat islands and health impacts in Harlem.
