The countdown is on for Environmental Journalism 2019 in Fort Collins, Colorado, hosted by Colorado State University! Colorado simultaneously boasts and suffers from a population explosion in Denver and other cities. This purple state is fertile ground for both clashes and collaborations among parties vying for rights to land, water and air, whether to preserve it for wildlife and human recreation or to exploit it for energy extraction. And it is fertile ground for stories! Workshops and tours are filling — register now to get your choice. Visit the conference website. See the draft agenda, find a hotel and roommates or sponsor, advertise or exhibit.
NEW! Prior to our opening plenary on Oct 11, we’ll hear from Interior Secretary David Bernhardt about the state of our public lands, in a Q and A with Juliet Eilperin, senior national affairs correspondent for The Washington Post. He will also take questions from journalists in the audience.
A new rule expands hunting and fishing in National Wildlife Refuges and fish hatcheries, and that means potential impacts on critically important public policy around fish and wildlife conservation. The latest TipSheet offers up story ideas and resources for local coverage of the story.
Our Calendar lists professional meetings, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. Sep 20 or 27, 2019, deadline: The National Press Foundation awards are open to journalists across the media spectrum. Winners will receive cash prizes and are honored at the NPF Journalism Awards Dinner.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Award judges had the privilege of reading the winning projects from every category of SEJ’s 2019 Awards for Reporting on the Environment, and the difficult task of choosing one from among them for this "best of the best" honor. Reuters' "Ocean Shock" series, a deeply reported and stunningly presented look at an underwater crisis of global proportions by Maurice Tamman, Matthew Green, Mari Saito, Sarah Slobin and Maryanne Murray, is this year's Pulliam winner. The prize includes $10,000 and a trip to SEJ's 29th annual conference in Fort Collins, Colorado this October.
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"Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not." — Sen. Patrick Leahy, 1996
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