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
The Environment Beat’s Rocky Terrain By Philip Shabecoff• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 Editors often don’t see these stories as ‘traditional news,’ and reporters tread on sensitive ground inside the newsroom. 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
Radio Uses Sound and Script to Transport Listeners to a Place By Peter Thomson• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 ‘In environmental reporting, nothing is more elemental than the sense of place.’ 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
Networks Aren’t Tuned in to the Environment By Natalie Pawelski• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 By using storytelling to illuminate issues, ‘we tricked everyday viewers into paying attention to environmental news.’ Read more
Covering Breaking News on the Environment Beat By Timothy Wheeler• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 At The (Baltimore) Sun, a city disaster leads to new investigations. Read more
Photojournalism and Environment Stories By Natalie Fobes• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 A photographer’s work ‘explores the increasingly complex relationship between people and the environment.’ Read more
Newsroom Issues Affect Environment Coverage By Peter Lord• Journalist’s Trade• December 15, 2002 ‘One of our bigger problems can be our own employers.’ Read more