Journalist’s Trade

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

Covering Breaking News on the Environment Beat

At The (Baltimore) Sun, a city disaster leads to new investigations.
December 15, 2002
Timothy Wheeler

Photojournalism and Environment Stories

A photographer’s work ‘explores the increasingly complex relationship between people and the environment.’
December 15, 2002
Natalie Fobes

Newsroom Issues Affect Environment Coverage

‘One of our bigger problems can be our own employers.’
December 15, 2002
Peter Lord

Training for Environment Writers

RELATED ARTICLE“Newsroom Issues Affect Environment Coverage”– Peter LordPaul Rogers, natural resources and environment writer at the San Jose Mercury News, compiled this list of training opportunities for journalists to improve…
December 15, 2002
Paul Rogers

Winter 2002: Introduction

Four decades ago reporting on the environment was what Paul Rogers, natural resources and environment writer at the San Jose Mercury News, calls “a fringe pursuit.” He writes that “the…
December 15, 2002
Melissa Ludtke