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October 31, 2025

DEADLINE: The Open Notebook Early-Career Fellowship [1]

This paid, part-time, remote fellowship program is for early-career science journalists anywhere in the world. For one year, fellows receive mentorship to plan, report and write articles for publication at The Open Notebook and become part of the TON editorial team. $6,600 stipend. Deadline: Oct 31, 2025.

Workshops and Fellowships [2]
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Public [3]
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Journalism & Media [4]
Science [5]
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National (U.S.) [6]
International [7]
October 15, 2025

DEADLINE: IJNR Great Lakes Federal Funding Hybrid Virtual/In-Person Workshop [8]

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources will bring journalists to Western Lake Erie, Nov 18-21, 2025, to explore the impacts Trump administration changes are having on local communities and what they mean for interests across the Basin, from agriculture, to energy, to fisheries and more. Deadline: Oct 15.

Workshops and Fellowships [2]
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Public [3]
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Environmental Health [9]
Government [10]
Journalism & Media [4]
People & Population [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Region: 
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [13]

"Trump Ends Annual Report On U.S. Hunger Amid Rising Food Insecurity" [14]

"The Trump administration is ending a decades-long effort to track food security at a time when many Americans are struggling to get proper nutrition or enough to eat."

Agriculture [15]
Consumer [16]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Food [19]
Journalism & Media [4]
People & Population [11]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Washington Post [20], 09/23/2025
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October 6, 2025

Webinar: How Can Open Science Practices Increase Trust In Research? [21]

Join The Journalist's Resource for this panel which will bring together representatives from each stage of open science, from active researchers to open publishing platform developers and journalists for a frank discussion. 12:30 p.m. ET.

Other Events [22]
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Public [3]
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Journalism & Media [4]
Science [5]
Region: 
International [7]

Trump Administration Icing Out NSIDC Data [23]

An important federal database that tracks Arctic ice and snowmelt — which help address concerns like sea level rise and fresh water resources — is facing funding cuts and reductions in services. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox looks at the kind of high-quality information the National Snow and Ice Data Center can provide environmental reporters, including for local stories. That is, while it lasts.

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Reporters Toolbox [24]
Topics on the Beat: 
Climate Change [25]
Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Studies [26]
Journalism & Media [4]
Natural Resources [27]
Science [5]
Water & Oceans [12]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
California [28]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [29]
International [7]
Antarctica & Arctic [30]
Visibility: 
Public [3]
  • Read more about Trump Administration Icing Out NSIDC Data [23]

A Guide to Legal Resources [31]

Freelance journalists, including environmental reporters, need not brave legal woes alone, counsels Freelance Files co-editor Elyse Hauser. A wide variety of groups offers aid for everything from denials of access to assaults or arrests, and her latest entry IDs more than a dozen resources, including legal assistance, emergency financial help and more. Plus, how to prevent problems to begin with.

SEJ Publication Types: 
Freelance Files [32]
Topics on the Beat: 
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [6]
International [7]
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Public [3]
  • Read more about A Guide to Legal Resources [31]

"A Trump Administration Playbook: No Data, No Problem" [34]

"When the Trump administration said last week that it would stop requiring thousands of industrial facilities to report their planet-warming pollution, the move fit a growing pattern: If data points to a problem, stop collecting the data."

Environmental Health [9]
Environmental Politics [18]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Science [5]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: NYTimes [35], 09/22/2025
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Pentagon Requires Journos To Pledge Only To Report Released Information [36]

"The Pentagon says it will require credentialed journalists at the military headquarters to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been authorized for release — including unclassified information. Journalists who don’t abide by the policy risk losing credentials that provide access to the Pentagon, under a 17-page memo distributed Friday that steps up media restrictions imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump."

Environmental Politics [18]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Military [37]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: AP [38], 09/22/2025
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"National Parks Remove Signs About Climate, Slavery And Japanese Detention" [39]

"The National Park Service has removed signs at Acadia National Park in Maine that make reference to climate change amid the Trump administration’s wider effort to remove information that it says undermines “the remarkable achievements of the United States.” A sign has also been removed from at least one additional park that referred to slavery, the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II and conflicts with Native Americans."

Environmental Justice [17]
Environmental Politics [18]
Environmental Studies [26]
Government [10]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Natural Resources [27]
People & Population [11]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Washington Post [40], 09/22/2025
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"EPA Tells Some Scientists To Stop Publishing Studies, Employees Say" [41]

"Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review."

Climate Change [25]
Environmental Politics [18]
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [33]
Pollution [42]
Science [5]
Water & Oceans [12]
Public [3]
National (U.S.) [6]
Source: Washington Post [43], 09/22/2025
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