Articles

Fighting to Get Environment Stories on Television

A veteran journalist uses fresh strategies with editors.
December 15, 2002
Jacques A. Rivard

The Press Paid Little Attention When the Immigration Act Was Passed

By personalizing cases of injustice, a columnist connects readers to its consequences.
December 15, 2002
Anthony Lewis

The Beat Is a Tougher One Today

Reporting on the environment requires more and better training of those who do it.
December 15, 2002
James Bruggers

Reporting on Children Held in INS Detention

‘It was this human contact that gave us the ability to get to the heart of his story.’
December 15, 2002
Chris L. Jenkins

The Environment Beat’s Rocky Terrain

Editors often don’t see these stories as ‘traditional news,’ and reporters tread on sensitive ground inside the newsroom.
December 15, 2002
Philip Shabecoff

A Beat About Business and the Environment

A broadcast journalist starts to see stories through a more complicated lens.
December 15, 2002
Christy George

Radio Uses Sound and Script to Transport Listeners to a Place

‘In environmental reporting, nothing is more elemental than the sense of place.’
December 15, 2002
Peter Thomson

Environment Journalists Don’t Get Much Respect

‘… the environment beat is so far down the journalistic pecking order that if it were alive it would be an amoeba.’
December 15, 2002
Bud Ward

A New Kind of Environment Reporting Is Needed

Blending objectivity with advocacy to arrive at sustainable journalism.
December 15, 2002
Jim Detjen

Networks Aren’t Tuned in to the Environment

By using storytelling to illuminate issues, ‘we tricked everyday viewers into paying attention to environmental news.’
December 15, 2002
Natalie Pawelski