FEJ Grant Supports Creation of Times-Picayune's Louisiana Coastal Reporting Team

FEJ Grant Supports Creation of Times-Picayune's Louisiana Coastal Reporting Team [1]

January 6, 2017

The Times-Picayune | NOLA.com [2] will create a Louisiana Coastal Reporting Team in early 2017, made possible in part through a major grant from SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism. [3] The Times-Picayune retains full editorial independence and authority; independent and separate agreements are maintained between SEJ and its donors.

The new team will be dedicated to in-depth coverage of the state's ongoing, devastating land loss [4].

Award-winning environment reporter (and longtime SEJ member) Mark Schleifstein [5] and state news editor Drew Broach will lead the new team, which also will include contributions from veteran outdoors reporter Todd Masson and photographer/videographer Ted Jackson. Schleifstein and Jackson previously collaborated on "Oceans of Trouble: Are the World's Fisheries Doomed? [6]" which won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for public service, and the Times-Picayune and NOLA.com [7] staffs' 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina [8].

Additionally, the Times-Picayune will add two full-time environmental journalists [9] who will work exclusively on the Louisiana Coastal Reporting Team. A national search to identify and retain these two journalists is under way.

Read the full story about the new Louisiana Coastal Reporting Team. [10]

Established in 2010, SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism has disbursed more than $640,000 for journalism projects including position grants and story projects selected through periodic competitions.

SEJ Publication Types:

SEJ News [11]

Topics on the Beat:

Journalism & Media [12]

Water & Oceans [13]

Region:

SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [14]

Visibility:

Public [15]