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KSL’s John Daley: Doing It All on the Environmental Beat

John Daley, general assignment reporter for KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, has spent 10 years working on stories as varied as the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, which the city hosted, and the subsequent bribery scandal, as well as the legislative…

SEJ 2009: Following Water’s Flow

By Debra Kaufman Big-name guests and a special focus on water will mark the 19th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, being held from Oct. 7 to 11 in Madison, Wis. According to SEJ executive director Beth Parke,…

NewsPro’s SEJ Poll: Job Resources, Warming Top of Mind

By Debra Kaufman A new survey of environmental reporters indicates that their biggest challenge is the limited resources of their jobs and the most crucial issue they cover is global warming.The poll, conducted by NewsPro in conjunction with the Society…

Copenhagen Meet: A View From Afar

By Debra Kaufman Although the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) will be a hot spot of debate about how the world deals with global warming, few U.S. journalists, local or national, will be on hand — partly because…

Mixed Reviews for the New EPA

By Debra Kaufman When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States many environmental journalists felt optimistic that his call for transparency signaled easier days ahead for obtaining information from the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, nearly nine months into…

Free Flow: Slow Go

By Elizabeth Jensen For proponents of efforts to pass a federal shield law, it’s been a few months of one step forward, two steps back. “Just when you think you’re making some headway, something comes up that you weren’t expecting,”…

Humor Scores Serious Points

By Elizabeth Jensen So why did the chicken cross the road? To get viewers and readers to pay attention to gloom-and-doom environmental stories, of course. Melting icebergs and dying polar bears are sad and scary stories; eyes glaze over when…

Environmental Journalists Adapt to Life After Layoffs

By Dinah Eng Industry layoffs and an economic downturn have sidelined thousands of journalists in the last year, forcing many who covered the environment to find new ways to make a living. Reporters who once worked to raise public awareness…

PBS Set the Course With ‘Nova,’ ‘Nature’

By Elizabeth Jensen When “Nova” debuted on PBS in 1974, the subject of its second program was a film about overreliance on the capacity of the Colorado River. In other words, PBS was examining environmental topics before it was cool….

The Masters of Environmental Journalism

The environment can be a tough beat. It requires extraordinary persistence and dedication to remain abreast of the myriad developments in an ever-evolving, often controversial field. For some reporters, it has become more than a career — it is a…