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Center for Environmental Journalism welcomes 2019-20 class of Ted Scripps Fellows

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 19:51:15 +0000

Center for Environmental Journalism welcomes 2019-20 class of Ted Scripps Fellows Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2019 - 13:51

A new class of fellows will dig into issues ranging from water scarcity to the environmental impact of meat production through the University of Colorado Boulder’s Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism program.

The five fellows selected for the 2019-20 class include nationally-known authors, as well as magazine and radio journalists. Their work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Public Radio and more.

The 2019-20 fellows:

Sarah Craighas reported about climate migration, water scarcity and water quality issues in California’s Central Valley as a radio journalist and documentary photographer. Her work has been featured on NPR’s Marketplace, Grist and the Bay Area’s KQED.
Joe Fasslerwas the deputy editor of The New Food Economy, an independent nonprofit newsroom covering the economics, politics and culture of food. He has also been a longtime contributor to The Atlantic’s “By Heart” series.
Antonia Juhasz is the author of three books: Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill, The Tyranny of Oil and The Bush Agenda. Her reporting on the fossil fuel industry has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, L.A. Times, Harper’s Magazine, Newsweek, and The Atlantic, among other outlets.
Jori Lewishas reported on science, the environment, agriculture and sustainable development as an independent journalist based in Senegal. Her work has been published in Discover Magazine, Pacific Standard and Hakai magazine, among others.
Sharon Udasin was a reporter for The Jerusalem Post in Israel, where her pieces on water politics, the natural gas sector and renewable energy earned her a Pratt Prize for Excellence in Israeli environmental journalism.

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Scripps Fellow Among Leading Science Journalists to Present "Communicating Science in a Post-Truth World"

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:31:32 +0000

Scripps Fellow Among Leading Science Journalists to Present "Communicating Science in a Post-Truth World" Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/23/2017 - 08:31

A discussion featuring Nancy Baron (COMPASS), John Upton (Climate Central), Ashley Ahearn (KUOW/NPR), David Malakoff (Science Magazine), Jennifer Weeks (The Conservation), and Jeff Burnside (Scripps Environmental Jourmalism Fellow).

Leading science journalists discuss how current events are influencing science journalism—and societies' conversations.

Free and open to the public.

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Center for Environmental Journalism turns 25

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:28:24 +0000

*Center for Environmental Journalism turns 25* Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/25/2017 - 10:28

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, as well as the 20th anniversary of the Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellowship. The center, established in 1992, has hosted the Ted Scripps Fellowships since the 1997-98 academic year.

For more than two decades, the program—housed within the College of Media, Communication and Information—has brought journalists, scientists, faculty and students together to discuss and report on issues crucial to our environment.

Events, which are free and open to the public, will celebrate the anniversary on Saturday, Aug. 26, beginning with two panels featuring journalists and environmental experts. “Science and policy in uncertain times,” will begin at 10 a.m., followed by the panel, “After years of upheaval, is journalism finding its voice?" at 1 p.m. Both panels will take place in the ATLAS center on �� Boulder’s central campus.

The inaugural Ackland Lecture in Journalism—named in honor of CEJ founding Director Len Ackland—will begin at 7 p.m. featuring Juliet Eilperin, the Washington Post’s senior national affairs correspondent. Eilperin will deliver her lecture in the auditorium at the new Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex.

The center also will celebrate the 100 journalists who have been awarded the Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellowship, a rare opportunity for mid-career journalists to spend nine months studying and working on special projects with support from the center. The fellowship is funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation.

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Listen up: Ted Scripps Fellow Amy Martin launches Threshold podcast

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:18:14 +0000

Listen up: Ted Scripps Fellow Amy Martin launches Threshold podcast Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 02/21/2017 - 10:18

Amy Martin, one of five journalists selected for the Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism this year, launched her new podcast, Threshold, earlier this month.

The podcast explores stories from the natural world, with the first season centering on the story of the American bison.

Journalism master's students Zöe Rom and Nick Mott, as well as undergraduate student Jackson Barnett, are interns for the podcast.

For more on Threshold visit thresholdpodcast.org, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Episodes one and two are available now.

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Five journalists selected for 2016-17 Ted Scripps Fellowship

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 21:40:59 +0000

Five journalists selected for 2016-17 Ted Scripps Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/10/2016 - 15:40

The Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism gives five exceptional journalists an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of environmental science and report on topics of their choosing.

The journalists selected for the 2016-17 Ted Scripps Fellowship bring a diverse set of experiences and interests to �� Boulder and the Center for Environmental Journalism.

Jenny Barchfield

Jenny Barchfield is a native of Tucson, Arizona. She studied Comparative Literature at Barnard College and has an MA in Spanish and Portuguese from Columbia University and also a Masters of Journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a program run in conjunction with Spain’s leading newspaper, El Pais. After interning with Newsweek in Spain and France, Barchfield joined the Associated Press’ Paris bureau in 2005, splitting her time between general news coverage and the bureau’s culture and fashion beat.

In 2012, she was named AP’s Rio de Janeiro correspondent and moved to Brazil to chronicle the country’s tumultuous preparations for the 2014 World Cup and this year’s Olympics. Her focus shifted to environmental stories, and her yearlong coverage of the un-kept promises to clean up the city’s sewage-polluted waterways led to an ongoing project testing Rio’s recreational waters for sewage-borne viruses and bacteria. The testing results story won the 2016 Headliner Award for the top environmental story and also the AP Sports Editors’ story of the year. As a Scripps Fellow, Barchfield plans to continue to examine water-related challenges facing the developing world.

Scott Carney

Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and anthropologist whose stories blend narrative non-fiction with ethnography. He has been a contributing editor at Wired and his work also appears in Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, Playboy, Details, Discover, Outside and Fast Company. Carney holds a number of academic appointments including as a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. In 2010 he won the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for the story Meet the Parents, which tracked an international kidnapping-to-adoption ring. His first book, The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers, was published by William Morrow in 2011 and won the 2012 Clarion Award for best non-fiction book. His second book, A Death on Diamond Mountain: A True Story of Obsession, Madness and the Path to Enlightenment, was published in 2015 by Gotham Books. Also in 2015, Carney founded WordRates, a website that aims to add transparency to the business of journalism with Yelp-style reviews of magazines and editors. Carney holds an MA in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He lives in Denver, CO.

Amy Martin

Amy Martin is an independent radio reporter based in Missoula, Montana. Her stories have been heard on NPR’s All Things Considered, Inside Energy, Montana Public Radio and other outlets. She is currently developing a new podcast/public radio show called Threshold, which will feature deep dives into big moments of environmental change. Each series of Threshold will explore a complex environmental question through intimate stories from people on all sides of the issue. The first series asks if we can ever have wild, free-roaming bison in the United States again.

Martin is a musician as well as a journalist. She has released eight albums of original songs, performed in venues around the country, and created community music programs for people of all ages. In 2015, she was selected to give a TEDx talk on the concept of listening as a survival tool. Raised on an Iowa farm, Martin has lived in Montana since 1999.

Joanna B. Pinneo

Joanna B. Pinneo is a freelance photojournalist whose work has taken her to 66 countries, from Tierra de Fuego in the south to Grise Fiord in the Arctic Circle. Pinneo has covered immigration, global climate change, land disputes, ancient African trade routes and native peoples worldwide. Her work has been published in National Geographic, New York Times, Smithsonian, Time, St Petersburg Times and Geo among others. Pinneo was nominated for a Pulitzer, won an Alfred Eisenstadt award and featured in National Geographic’s 50 best photographs. Her story on the Palestinians for National Geographic won a 1st Place Magazine Feature award in the Washington Journalism Review. Pinneo’s work has appeared in book collections including Women in the Material World, America at Home and Proud Nations. Pinneo received a NPPA/Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant for her project exploring girls’ coming of age in America. Pinneo is a member of Ripple Effect Images, a collective of photographers who document the lives of women in developing countries especially as they combat the impact of climate change. As a Scripps Fellow, Pinneo plans to research and report on the effects of household air pollution and the implementation of clean cookstoves.

Autumn Spanne

Autumn Spanne is a freelance journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian who writes about science, the environment, sustainability and human rights. Her work also appears in National Geographic News, the Daily Climate, the Christian Science Monitor, InsideClimate News, mental_floss and CNN. Prior to her journalism career, Spanne taught English and journalism on the Navajo Nation. She later worked as an editor at Youth Communication, a pioneering educational publishing company that trains young people in writing and journalism and publishes their stories in two award-winning magazines and a book series.

Spanne has traveled and reported widely in Latin America, Europe and the United States. As a Scripps fellow, she will study environmental and American Indian law, public health, climate science and data journalism to produce deeply reported stories pertaining to Native American water rights and tribal water contamination.

Each year, the Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism gives five exceptional journalists an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of environmental science and report on topics of their choosing.

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Seminar Series: Center of the American West Director Patty Limerick

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:00:00 +0000

Seminar Series: Center of the American West Director Patty Limerick Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 09/19/2014 - 00:00

Homer and Halliburton might be strange bedfellows, but there’s one thing the bard of the ancient world and the multinational drilling giant have in common: both explore the mysterious world beneath our feet.

Patty Limerick, director of the Center of the American West, stopped by the CEJ on Thursday, September 18 to share her work with the Scripps Fellows. Limerick has spent the past few years creating an innovate approach to communication around the topic of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, otherwise known as fracking.

It’s been one of the most heated environmental debates of the last decade. And despite what most people may think, there’s much more to the debate than meets the eye.

In her talk, called “The Fractured Underworld: The Thoughts of a Surface Dweller Drawn into the Depths,” Limerick dug up the well-worn symbolism provided by ancients like Homer to describe the strangeness and fear we might feel when talking about dark places we cannot directly observe, like a drilling well or an aquifer.

She read from Fitzgerald’s translation of the Odyssey, when Odysseus meets his mother in the underworld.

“‘Child, / how could you cross alive into this gloom / at the world’s end?”

Her work combines lessons from the humanities—including her “comrades” that “reach across time” like Homer, Virgil, and Dante—with a collaborative approach to engaging diverse communities about fracking.

As a historian, she said there’s a lot her profession can offer.

“One of the core goals of the humanities is to explore the subsurface of public and private experience for the meaning that would otherwise be concealed.”

This has given Limerick a unique approach to unraveling the politically charged debate on fracking. Whereas many academics simply argue a need to “educate the public,” Limerick said that this is merely superficial.

“Everybody loves [education]. But it’s not as easy as talking at people until they raise a white flag.”

What works, she said, is digging beneath the surface dialogue and finding out what matters to people. That’s why over the last year, Limerick’s team at the Center of the American West and other collaborators put on a traveling speaker series to thoughtfully engage the public on some of the murkier aspects of fracking.

The series, called FrackingSENSE, brought speakers from all over the nation—and from even wider viewpoints—to a diverse set of towns like Boulder and Greeley. Speakers ranged from activists and industry insiders to politicians and academics.

Limerick said her role as a neutral referee helped add voices to the debate who otherwise wouldn’t have taken each other seriously. FrackingSENSE reboots again this February.

Much of this divide over fracking, she said, can be traced to language. For example one group might call itself “pro-industry,” while labeling those who it perceives to be opponents as “anti-industry.”

Limerick’s second project, lead principally by doctoral student and former journalist Adrianne Kroepsch, seeks to compile some of these dubious expressions and explain their implications in simple terms. This new tool can not only help “citizen-explorers” navigate the jargon of fracking, but it can also help journalists who are just breaking ground on the fracking issue. The project was featured in High Country News last week.

Towards the end of her talk, and after an hour of making a group of serious journalists giggle, Limerick added that humor also plays an important role in communication. Critics of Limerick and her work complain that her approach is always too light or too lively. But Limerick said it means her communication is right on target.

“That’s a criticism we are happy to take.”

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