Author

Bud Ward

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Bud Ward is editor of The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media a freelance writer and journalism educator, and jury administrator for The Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. He is the author of the National Science Foundation-funded book “Communicating on Climate Change: An Essential Resource for Journalists, Scientists, and Educators.”

Communicating on Climate Change

A 74-page book, “Communicating on Climate Change,” based on an unprecedented series of dialogues involving top climate scientists and journalists, can be downloaded as a PDF file from The Metcalf…
September 17, 2009

Journalists and Environmental Reporting

Investigative reporters have long followed the money trail as a reliable way of getting at the core of a story. These days, Fred Pearce, former news editor at New Scientist,…
September 17, 2009

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