The Beat Is a Tougher One Today By James Bruggers• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 Reporting on the environment requires more and better training of those who do it. Read more
A Beat About Business and the Environment By Christy George• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 A broadcast journalist starts to see stories through a more complicated lens. Read more
Environment Journalists Don’t Get Much Respect By Bud Ward• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 ‘… the environment beat is so far down the journalistic pecking order that if it were alive it would be an amoeba.’ Read more
A New Kind of Environment Reporting Is Needed By Jim Detjen• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 Blending objectivity with advocacy to arrive at sustainable journalism. Read more
Winter 2002: Introduction By Melissa Ludtke• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 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 craft is now firmly entrenched as a key beat … Read more
Glaciers and Sea Level Change By Gary Braasch• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 Sagarin at Monterey tide pools High tide on Delaware Bay near Cape Bay A shrinking Rhone glacier, in 1859 … Read more
Antarctica By Gary Braasch• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 Ornithologist Fraser at a diminished Adelie colony on Torgersen Island The disintegrating Müller Ice Shelf, Lallemand Fjord A male … Read more
The Difficulty of Finding Impartial Sources in Science By Robert Lee Hotz• Features• September 15, 2002 Reporters are better prepared, the public is eager for news, yet the science beat is getting tougher to do. Read more
The Devolution of a Science Page By Jim Dawson• Features• September 15, 2002 Suffering from editorial interference and lack of focus, ‘The page actually managed to make science boring.’ Read more
Bringing Science to a Television Audience By Jon Palfreman• Features• September 15, 2002 Too often, spectacles—like mummies and volcanoes—triumph over the reporting of modern science. Read more
