What motivates journalists to keep going even though the news is so bleak 鈥� both for society and for journalism itself? Join the Center for Environmental Journalism at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 20 while this year鈥檚 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism discuss the role of their craft during these challenging times.
If you go
Who: Open to the public
What: Center for Environmental Journalism panel discussion
When:听Wednesday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m.
Where: ATLAS 100
For over two decades, the fellowship program鈥攈oused in the College of Media, Communication and Information鈥檚 Center for Environmental Journalism鈥攈as brought working journalists to campus for a full academic year, providing them with opportunities to expand their knowledge and capacity to report on critical environmental stories.
As Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism, panelists are focusing on these environmental issues:
- Peter Brannen is studying how extreme episodes of climate change in Earth's geological past can inform us about our future.
- Chris Lett is investigating the global ramifications of overfishing and climate change on coastal peoples.
- Stephen R. Miller is investigating climate change adaptation in the arid West.
- Hillary Rosner鈥檚 focus is on corridors as tools for wildlife conservation鈥攁nd on the direct and indirect ways humans have altered the movement of other species.
- Elizabeth Royte is studying environmental law and environmental history.
- David Baron is the panel moderator, a Scripps Fellow in the class of 1998鈥�99.
