SEJ Annual Conferences

Save the dates for SEJ's 33rd annual conference, hosted by University of Pennsylvania!

What do you think should be on the agenda for #SEJ2024 in Philly? If you're an SEJ member and/or a Full member of The Uproot Project, you're welcome to submit a proposal. Here are some helpful tips for pitching a panel. The deadline for submitting proposals is November 1. And while you're thinking about your panel, check out the Tour Sneak Peek and snag a hotel room — last year we ran out, so don't wait! Not a member? If you're eligible, join SEJ and The Uproot Project today! If you're not a member, you can still get involved.

Check out the multimedia coverage (including videos of the plenaries) of SEJ's 32nd Annual Conference in Boise, Idaho, hosted by Boise State University. Here's the agenda.

It's critically important to SEJ to gather evidence on the impact of our work. So we're tracking stories inspired by or informed by our conference in Boise. The stories don't have to be about Boise or Idaho; they can be based on sources or ideas you got from being at the conference. Please help us to keep SEJ strong and share links, photos, copies of reporting generated or informed by this conference. Send your story links to Cindy MacDonald, SEJ's Web content manager. It's never too late. Please send yours! Moderators, speakers, tour leaders: We also welcome resources, tipsheets, etc., from sessions or tours that you wish to share.

SEJ's 31st annual conference was hosted by Rice University in Houston. Here's the agenda. There are video recordings of the plenaries and audio recordings of most concurrent sessions. Find it all on our conference coverage page.

#SEJ2020, our first-ever virtual conference, took place September 16, 17, 23 and 30. Registered attendees can watch recordings of #SEJ2020 in the Whova app.

Environmental Journalism 2019 was hosted by Colorado State University. See the agenda. Most sessions were audio-recorded and are posted on our conference coverage page.

Environmental Journalism 2018, hosted by the University of Michigan-Flint, is a wrap. More than 700 attendees networked, went on tours and took in countless educational sessions. Multimedia coverage. View the agenda or read speaker bios. Check out our sponsors, exhibitors, independent reception hosts and advertisers. If you wrote stories informed by the conference, please send us the links to include on our coverage page — it's never too late.

Environmental Journalism 2017 was hosted by the University of Pittsburgh/Swanson School of Engineering in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Find coverage here, peruse the agenda or read speaker bios.

Environmental Journalism 2016 took us to California, the Land of Extremes and Home of Big Dreams, hosted by Capital Public Radio and UC Davis. Multimedia coverage is posted here. See the agenda and speaker bios.

SEJ's 2015 conference was hosted in the land of weather, water and energy by the University of Oklahoma. Find coverage here. The agenda included video and graphics training, tours and sessions on fracking & quakes, climate change & extreme weather, water rights & fights, Native Americans & diversity, ag & soil health, and more.

Multimedia conference coverage of SEJ's 24th Annual Conference is posted here. Send us links to your stories for inclusion on the coverage page. Agenda. Share your conference photos on SEJ's public Flickr page. See Twitter and Facebook posts by attendees using #SEJ2014.