The current pandemic has shown the immense brittleness and vulnerability of the world’s economy. Economic recovery is one of the biggest long-term stories facing journalists, and the world, right now. Join our conversation, 12-1:30 p.m. EST, with ecological economist Jon Erickson [2], University of Vermont; social economist Juliet Schor, [3] Boston College; and interdisciplinary scholar Nate Hagens, [4] Post Carbon Institute. The conversation will be moderated by Dale Willman [5], award-winning journalist and Associate Director of the new Resilience Media Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Join Future Tense, PEN America and the Freedom of the Press Foundation in Washington, DC, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET, for drinks and a hands-on cybersecurity self-defense session. Get practical tools and strategies to both prepare for and respond to online harassment. This event is free and open to the public. Can't be there in person? Watch the livestream.

Award-winning environmental journalist and SEJ board president Meera Subramanian will host this free event, 4:30-7:00 p.m. at Princeton University in New Jersey, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers, author of "The Overstory"; Robin Wall Kimmerer, SUNY professor of environmental biology and author of "Braiding Sweetgrass"; and forest activist Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology. Will be available to watch online post-event.

This free Knight Center at the University of Texas at Austin course, designed for both beginner journalists and advanced investigators, will be taught by a team of four investigative journalists with decades of experience in investigating everything from political corruption to environmental hazards to human rights atrocities.

The biennial Wildscreen Festival in the UK is a celebration of wildlife filmmaking and photography. The 2024 event, October 14-18, offers both hybrid and virtual options.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will provide direct legal services to help local journalists and news organizations defend their rights to gather and report the news, gain access to public records and court proceedings, and more. Submit your proposal by Oct 31, 2019.