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Winners: SEJ 20th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment

And the winners are...

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SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

Our Calendar lists professional meetings, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. Aug 6, 2021 deadline: The Business & Sustainability Initiative at Solutions Journalism Network is offering funding, training and support to newsrooms for coverage of businesses' role in solutions related to sustainability issues, with a focus on communities served by the solutions.

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SEJ Board Meeting, Election and Annual Membership Meeting

SEJ's Annual Membership meeting and Board election will be held September 25, 2021 via Zoom. Candidate statements will be posted no later than August 16 and ballots will be emailed to eligible voters no later than August 31. Eligible voters in this election include Active and Associate members who are in good standing as of August 16. The Board of Directors will also meet on September 25. See election details here (you'll need your log-in info).

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#SEJSpotlight on Members

Meet SEJ member Julie Halpert! Julie is an award-winning freelance journalist with more than three decades of experience writing regularly for many of the nation’s most widely respected publications, including The New York Times, CNBC, Business Insider, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. Want SEJ to promote your work to our social media followers? Here's how.

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SEJ Publication Highlights

A Look Back at the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
07/28/2021 – The origins of the struggle to protect animal welfare began with preventing the brutal mistreatment of carriage horses. And a new volume explores how one man did much to extend those protections to many species with the founding of the ASPCA. Our BookShelf has a review of “A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement.”
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Get Organized Now for Next Year’s Tax Returns
07/28/2021 – If you’re a freelancer with disorganized piles of 2021 receipts already gathering dust in a corner, the latest Freelance Files is for you. Globetrotting science journalist Dan Grossman shares his system (and advice from his accountant) for tracking expenses for travel, legal and professional services, business costs, home office use and more. Your Schedule C will never seem quite so disconcerting again.
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Beach Closures Offer Key to Bigger Water Pollution Stories
07/28/2021 – People all too often swim in waters whose pollution risks are far scarier — and far more real — than shark attacks. Yet little attention is paid to the environmental stories behind the beach closures such pollution can necessitate. TipSheet helps you dip your toe, with the backstory on the most common cause for these health risks, plus reporting resources.
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"A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist."

— Louis Menand, "Browbeaten," The New Yorker, 9/5/2011

 

 

Quick Links

SEJ.org is a treasure chest of information useful to your reporting. Search website content by environmental issue, including:

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WHY Join SEJ?

SEJ's mission is to strengthen coverage of environment, energy, health and climate news, by supporting the journalists who report that news. The benefits of joining include: access to grants for environmental reporting; mentoring by experienced journalists; and members-only e-mailing lists for sharing professional tips, news, and information. SEJ members meet and learn face-to-face from fellow members, other media professionals and topic experts, at our annual conference and volunteer-organized regional gatherings.

 

 

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