Journalist’s Trade

With a drought and expanding population, coverage of water gains importance.

Eyewitness online reporting about the tsunami complements coverage by mainstream news organizations.

With lead levels endangering health, public agencies kept test results from consumers.

A 17-month investigation about drinking water pollution prompts action.

‘… the smell of the dead bodies is something you just don’t know without having been through it before.’

‘I try to focus my coverage on people whose lives intersect with water.’

It’s the economy, stupid.

By bringing awareness and information to reporters, stories about these topics are starting to be told.

‘Tracking the battles over water isn’t a beat—it’s a career.’

“When the tsunami hit Thailand’s coastal line … nobody in this country would have thought that Mother Nature could inflict such casualties to the land of smile.” With those words,…