Author

Jacques A. Rivard

Jacques A. Rivard, a 1996 Nieman Fellow, has covered the environment from the early 1980’s for the French arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). As a national TV correspondent from 1998-2004, based in Vancouver, he did many stories about the impact of global warming in the Arctic. He retired from the CBC in 2004. As a Nieman, Rivard held the V. Kann Rasmussen Environmental Fellowship.

Trying to Achieve Balance Against Great Odds

With the United States’s opposition to Kyoto so strong, a Canadian journalist finds little pressure from editors to include that perspective in his stories.
December 15, 2005

Press Silence Before Rwanda’s Genocide

‘If any of my students reacted against the government’s methods of control, they feared for their lives.’
June 15, 2005

Fighting to Get Environment Stories on Television

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