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Journalism students investigate long-term impacts of the Marshall Fire

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:54:56 +0000

Journalism students investigate long-term impacts of the Marshall Fire Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/12/2022 - 11:54

Seven CMCI journalism students, with the help of established journalists in the field, are shining a light on the undercovered impacts of the Marshall Fire through a recently published investigation.

In terms of structures lost, the Marshall Fire was the most destructive fire in Colorado history. Beginning Dec. 30, 2021, the Marshall Fire destroyed 1,084 homes and commercial properties within a 10-square-mile burn area. The number of standing homes damaged by the fire and smoke is less clear, but for these homeowners, recovery has been an arduous, seemingly never-ending process. This fall, journalism students focused on sharing the stories of these homeowners.

The students conducted their reporting during an immersive journalism course created by Boulder Reporting Lab publisher Stacy Feldman and Hillary Rosner, a science journalist, teaching assistant professor of journalism and assistant director of the Center for Environmental Journalism.

In the pop-up newsroom, students teamed up with KUNC investigative reporter Robyn Vincent and interviewed more than 60 people. On Wednesday, their work appeared in the Boulder Reporting Lab and KUNC during NPR programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Seven CMCI journalism students, with the help of established journalists in the field, are shining a light on the undercovered impacts of the Marshall Fire through a recently published investigation.

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Center for Environmental Journalism announces new Ted Scripps fellows

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:31:02 +0000

Center for Environmental Journalism announces new Ted Scripps fellows Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 06/08/2022 - 17:31

The Center for Environmental Journalism is proud to welcome its 26th class of Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism.

The fellowship is named after the late Edward (Ted) Scripps, grandson of the founder of Scripps Howard and a journalist who cared deeply about the environment. Since 1997, journalists have come to the University of Colorado Boulder to spend two semesters deepening their knowledge of the environment through courses, weekly seminars, field trips and independent study.

This year’s class of fellows is arriving with extensive reporting experience across a range of media platforms, including international outlets specializing in audio storytelling, digital writing and photojournalism. The journalists will focus their fellowships on specific areas of study, tackling critical questions concerning the intersection of climate change and religion, the economy and environment, climate change impacts on migration in the Americas and the environmental impacts of space travel.

“I'm thrilled to welcome the 2022–23 class of Ted Scripps fellows,” said Hillary Rosner, CEJ assistant director and a former Scripps fellow. “This year’s impressive group of journalists comes with a range of experience across print, photography and multimedia, and their interests span from finance to ecology to religion to migration. I’m excited for a great year with them.”

Learn more about the 2022–23 Class of Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism →

Jessica Camille Aguirre
Andrew Cullen
Gulnaz Khan
Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi
Mercy Orengo

The Center for Environmental Journalism is proud to welcome the 26th class of Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism. The fellows will spend nine months at the University of Colorado Boulder working on long-term, in-depth journalistic projects and digging into critical questions.

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��Ƶ Boulder Center for Environmental Journalism welcomes 25th class of fellows

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:27:50 +0000

��Ƶ Boulder Center for Environmental Journalism welcomes 25th class of fellows Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/21/2021 - 14:27

The Center for Environmental Journalism is proud to welcome its 25th class of Ted Scripps Fellows, who will spend nine months at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information working on long-term, in-depth journalistic projects and reflecting on critical questions.

Each of this year’s fellows bring extensive reporting experience across a range of media platforms, with backgrounds in investigative journalism, audio storytelling, digital writing and magazine writing. They will apply their skills and knowledge toward research on topics including the intersection of climate change and health, how crime and corruption are fueling climate change, the ways our relationships to the wilderness are changing, water policy and governance in the American West, and ways to support Indigenous media and center Indigenous voices through mainstream media.

“We are thrilled to welcome these outstanding journalists to ��Ƶ,” says CEJ Director Tom Yulsman. “Given their outstanding achievements, diversity of interests and important journalistic work they are pursuing, our university community will benefit greatly from having them here during the coming academic year.”

Learn more about the 2021-22 Class of Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism »

Melissa Bailey
Sasha Chavkin
Marissa Ortega-Welch
Luke Runyon
Anna V. Smith

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The Atlantic: “The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record”

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:09:52 +0000

The Atlantic: “The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record” Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/15/2021 - 12:09

By Peter Brannen (Former Center for Environmental Journalism Scripps Fellow)

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CMCI Now: Fall 2020

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:46:51 +0000

CMCI Now: Fall 2020 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/19/2020 - 10:46

Read the latest issue of our award-winning magazine.

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��Ƶ Boulder Center for Environmental Journalism welcomes new class of fellows

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:43:31 +0000

��Ƶ Boulder Center for Environmental Journalism welcomes new class of fellows Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/13/2020 - 10:43

The Center for Environmental Journalism is proud to welcome its 24th class of Ted Scripps Fellows, who will spend nine months at the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information working on long-term, in-depth journalistic projects and reflecting on critical questions.

The group brings a depth of experience across a range of media, with backgrounds covering local issues as a public radio reporter and a photojournalist, overseeing a non-profit news organization and a science magazine, and reporting abroad as a Moscow correspondent.

“We’re thrilled to welcome these incredibly accomplished journalists to the Center for Environmental Journalism,” said Tom Yulsman, CEJ director. “We gain as much from their presence as they do from spending a year at the university.”

The 2020-21 Class of Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism includes:

Stacy Feldman, co-founder of InsideClimate News (ICN), a Pulitzer Prize-winning non-profit news organization providing reporting and analysis on climate change, energy and the environment. Serving as executive editor from 2015 to 2020, she’s spent the past 13 years helping to build and lead ICN as it transformed from a two-person startup to an operation with nearly 20 employees and a model for national and award-winning non-profit climate journalism.

As a fellow, she plans to study new approaches to local journalism that could help people connect environmental harm and injustice to their own health and their communities’ well-being.

Grace Hood, who has covered water, science and energy topics across the American southwest as Colorado Public Radio’s environment and climate reporter since 2015. Throughout more than a decade in public radio, she’s profiled octogenarian voters worried about climate change, scientists tracking underground mine fires, a visually impaired marijuana farmer and a homeowner who lives next door to Colorado’s first underground nuclear fracking experiment.

As a fellow, she plans to study how cities and states monitor air quality near oil and gas sites. She has a particular interest in the rise of citizen science when it comes to measuring air pollution across the West.

Alec Luhn, an independent journalist with a focus on the changing communities and ecosystems of the far north. Previously a Moscow correspondent for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, he’s been published in The Atlantic, GQ, The Independent, MAXIM, The Nation, The New York Times, POLITICO, Reuters, TIME, Slate and WIRED, among others. During a decade abroad, he’s reported from the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth and covered the conflict in eastern Ukraine, annexed Crimea, war-torn Syria and Chernobyl reactor four, as well as covering oil spills, permafrost thaw, reindeer herding, polar bear patrols, Gulag towns and the world's only floating nuclear power plant in the Arctic.

As a fellow, he plans to study how climate change and resource extraction are altering the fragile environment of the north, with deep repercussions for reindeer and caribou and the indigenous peoples that depend on them.

Amanda Mascarelli, managing editor of Sapiens, an award-winning digital magazine that covers anthropology and archaeology for the general public. She has led the publication since before its 2016 launch and has overseen the production of hundreds of stories on topics including Holocaust archaeology, schizophrenia, fracking, cultural appropriation, and, most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, she spent more than a decade as a freelance science journalist specializing in health and the environment. She’s been published by outlets including Audubon, Nature, New Scientist, Science, Science News for Students and The New York Times and worked as a health columnist for the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

As a fellow, she will study the social inequalities of health in vulnerable communities in the Denver metro region and elsewhere in Colorado, with an eye to exploring the health and social impacts of industrial expansion, fossil fuel extraction, and a planned massive urban redesign.

RJ Sangosti, who has been a photojournalist at The Denver Post since 2004, where he’s covered events spanning from Hurricane Katrina to presidential elections. Over more than a decade, he has documented the people and landscape of eastern Colorado, where years of drought and a loss of agricultural earning power continue to hurt farmers. Most recently, he completed a story about a Denver neighborhood in one of the country’s most polluted urban zip codes, whose residents continue to be impacted by a huge interstate construction project. His work was included in the 2012 Time Magazine top 10 photos of the year, and he was honored to be part of the 2016 jury for the centennial year of The Pulitzer Prizes.

As a fellow, he will report on the effects pesticides and fertilizers have on aquifers and groundwater, and he hopes to gain new skills in research and writing.

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CMCI Celebrates 50 Years of Earth Day with our Top 10 Environmental Reads

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 23:46:28 +0000

CMCI Celebrates 50 Years of Earth Day with our Top 10 Environmental Reads Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/22/2020 - 17:46

Happy Earth Day!

As environmental Buffs may know, this year’s celebration is extra special, as it’s the 50th anniversary of the annual event, which was first celebrated in 1970. Head to the ��Ƶ Boulder Environmental Center’s website to see how our campus is celebrating virtually.

CMCI has long been a hub of environmentally-focused research, reporting, outreach and creative work. This work takes place through several of our centers and initiatives, including the Center for Environmental Journalism, which has facilitated in-depth environmental reporting since its establishment in 1992; The Water Desk, which provides increased coverage of Western water issues; the Grand Challenge-funded Nature, Environment, Science and Technology Studio for the Arts (NEST), which combines aesthetic practices and scientific research; and the Center for Communication and Democratic Engagement, which includes focuses on climate justice and community engagement, and more. Throughout the college, we’re proud of our multimedia storytellers, reporters, researchers and activists working to create awareness, engagement and positive change.

Here’s our top 10 Earth Day reads––in order of publication date––featuring CMCI students, faculty, fellows and staff.

Earlier this month, Department of Communication Associate Professor Phaedra Pezzullo co-hosted the webinar "Power Dialog: Climate Solutions for Colorado," which featured remarks from Gov. Jared Polis. You can still watch a recorded version of the webinar, or read the top five takeaways, written by alumnus and ��Ƶ science writer Kelsey Simpkins (MJour’18). You can also read about Pezzullo’s work with ��Ƶ’s Just Transition Collaborative in our CMCI Now story, “#PoweredByThePeople.” (March 30, 2020)
In this piece for the Colorado Sun, CEJ Scripps Fellow Sharon Udasin examined the relationship between the city of Denver and San Luis, Mexico, in their efforts to both restore the Colorado River’s flow and create greenspaces to connect the two cities. (Feb. 24, 2020)
As actors like Joaquin Phoenix, Jane Fonda and Leonardo DiCaprio continue to speak out about a range of climate issues, Department of Media Studies Scholar-in-Residence Hunter Vaughan says their own industry takes a massive toll on the environment. Check out this ��Ƶ Boulder Today article by Lisa Marshall––��Ƶ’s senior science writer and a master’s student in the Department of Journalism––to learn why Vaughan says that pollution may be “Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret.” (Jan 27, 2020)
This year, former CEJ Scripps Fellow David Mayfield’s project, Catch the King, set an official Guinness World Record as the world’s largest environmental survey. Read about it in this CEJ article by Julia Barnes, a master’s student in the Department of Journalism. (Feb. 14, 2020)
While reporting for KGNU, Department of Journalism master’s student Alejandra Wilcox spent time along the Yampa River, where she spoke with Water Commissioner Scott Hummer, who is responsible for overseeing water usage amid increasingly tight regulations. (Dec. 18, 2019)
In this longform piece for National Geographic, former Scripps Fellow Stephen Miller examined the tension between Arizona’s growing aridity and the economic forces its farmers are enduring because of it. (Nov. 12, 2019)
In her piece for Rolling Stone, Scripps Fellow Antonia Juhasz shined a spotlight on the activism and racial inequalities in “Cancer Alley,” a toxic 85-mile stretch in Louisiana lined with petrochemical facilities. (Oct. 23, 2019)
Writing for The Atlantic, former Scripps Fellow Peter Brannen argued forcefully against calling the age in which we live “the anthropocene”––a term coined by scientists to describe the geological time humans have inhabited, and re-shaped, the earth. (Aug. 13, 2019)
Here in Boulder, alumna Moe Clark (MJour’19), now a reporter at the Colorado Sun, looked at how a small garden at the National Center for Atmospheric Research is one of many in a nationwide network scientists are using to measure the effects of ground-level ozone. (Aug. 12, 2019)
While reporting for Mongabay, former Scripps Fellow and current CMCI Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team member Chris Lett explored how “In Ethiopia, women and faith drive effort to restore biodiversity.” In addition to writing and reporting this longform piece, Lett contributed photos of Ethiopian women carrying huge bundles of fuelwood on their backs. (March 20, 2019)

Bonus! Last year, Department of Communication PhD student Joanne Marras Tate and fellow graduate students Robert Buehler and Mathew Sharples collaborated with NEST to create a Campus Field Guide. Today, they’ve shared the field guide in hopes that people can use it to explore their own backyards. (April 22, 2020)

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The Water Desk awards grants to journalists covering Western water issues

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 22:19:11 +0000

The Water Desk awards grants to journalists covering Western water issues Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/04/2019 - 16:19

The Water Desk, a journalism initiative at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism, has awarded its first grants to support journalists and media outlets covering Western water issues and the Colorado River Basin.

Grantees will delve into a wide range of issues throughout the region, including biodiversity, pollution, groundwater, climate change, public lands, energy development and tribal water rights. The journalists and outlets will use a variety of media—newspapers, magazines, websites, television, radio—to explore critical challenges facing the West’s water.

The recipients of The Water Desk’s 2019 standard grants (in alphabetical order):

Arizona Public Media: Vanessa Barchfield and Ariana Brocious
Bob Berwyn, independent journalist
CalMatters: Alastair Bland
Food & Environment Reporting Network: Tim Folger
KFFR 88.3 FM Community Radio: Denis Moynihan
Mark Olalde, independent journalist
National Parks Traveler: Kurt Repanshek
New Mexico PBS (KNME-TV): Laura Paskus
The Story Group: Ted Wood; and Jim Robbins, independent journalist
The Colorado Independent: Susan Greene
The Nevada Independent: Daniel Rothberg
USA Today Network: Greg Burton, Josh Susong, Ian James, Eric Larsen, Sarah Kyle and Jacy Marmaduke

“We’re at a watershed moment for both water issues and the journalism industry, so we’re excited to be supporting these important projects,” said Mitch Tobin, director of The Water Desk. “We were impressed by the quality of the applications, the diversity of topics proposed and the mix of approaches that the journalists will pursue.”

The Water Desk’s standard grants award up to $10,000 to journalists and media outlets covering water issues involving the seven states of the Colorado River Basin—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming—as well as the borderlands of Northwest Mexico.

For the 12 standard grants, The Water Desk has approved a total of $112,888 in funding for journalists.

In addition to the standard grants, The Water Desk has also approved 10 micro-grants, up to $1,000 each, to support travel expenses, multimedia content and professional development for water journalists.

Applications for the standard grants were reviewed and approved by a selection committee consisting of: Mitch Tobin, director of The Water Desk; Tom Yulsman, director of the Center for Environmental Journalism; Hillary Rosner, scholar-in-residence at the Center for Environmental Journalism; and Amanda Clark, a recent graduate of ��Ƶ Boulder’s master’s program in journalism who worked for The Water Desk.

The Water Desk will be running a similar program for standard grants in 2020 and is still accepting applications for 2019 micro-grants. Details about the grantmaking program are at /cej/waterdesk/grants

��Ƶ The Water Desk

Based at the College of Media, Communication and Information’s Center for Environmental Journalism, The Water Desk is dedicated to increasing increase the volume, depth and impact of journalism connected to Western water issues, with a focus on the Colorado River Basin.

The Water Desk launched in April 2019 with support from a two-year $700,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation. The Water Desk is seeking additional funding to build and sustain the initiative. As a journalistic effort, The Water Desk maintains a strict editorial firewall between its content and funders. Likewise, The Water Desk has editorial independence from the University of Colorado Boulder. For its grantmaking program, The Water Desk has a policy of confidentiality with regard to submitted story ideas. Funders of The Water Desk have no right of review and no influence on stories or other journalistic content that is produced with the support of these grants.

Learn more about The Water Desk »

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

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:27:36 +0000

Center for Environmental Journalism welcomes 2019-20 class of Ted Scripps Fellows Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/20/2019 - 12:27

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 Center for Environmental Journalism, which hosts the Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism, focuses on student education, professional development of working journalists as well as producing and supporting environmental journalism.

The centerpiece of programs for working journalists is the Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.

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.

“More than 100 top-notch journalists have participated in the Scripps Fellowships since the inception of the program in 1997,” said Tom Yulsman, director of the Center for Environmental Journalism. “And we’re thrilled to welcome five more to the family.”

For over two decades, the fellowship program, now housed in the College of Media, Communication and Information, has 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 of the day.

The fellowships are named after the late Ted Scripps, grandson of the founder of the Scripps Howard media company. The program is funded by a grant from his daughter, Cindy Scripps, through the Scripps Howard Foundation.

This year’s fellows plan to explore issues related to the environmental implications from meat production, the impact of insect infestation on agriculture, water scarcity, fossil fuel dependence and other climate change-related projects.

More on 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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Searching for Bigfoot

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Searching for Bigfoot Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/01/2019 - 13:50

Former ��Ƶ Boulder Journalism Fellow Laura Krantz explores all things Bigfoot in Wild Thing, which the Atlantic named one of 2018's Best Podcasts.

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