News and Events
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October 13, 2009: The CEJ is sponsoring a talk by Peter Maass, writer for The New York Times Magazine. He will be on campus to discuss his new book, Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. Maass, whose eight years of research took him to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Russia, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Ecuador and Venezuela, will talk about creating narratives that can enliven global issues. He will also discuss the ways today's journalists can produce better and deeper foreign reportage.
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Location: UMC Aspen Room 285
Time: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Pizza and soda will be served at 11:45 a.m.) -
September 2009: Mike Philipps, President and CEO of the Scripps Howard Foundation, has joined the Ted Scripps Fellowships Advisory Board. Philipps spent more than 30 years as a newspaper journalist, including seven years as editor of The Cincinnati Post and its sister newspaper, The Kentucky Post.
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September 2009: Worth the wait. Dianne Dumanoski, a member of the Ted Scripps Fellowships Advisory Board, has written a timely, sobering account of our climate change dilemma: "The End of the Long Summer: Why We must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth," published by Crown, a division of Random House. She grapples with the science of climate change and the philosophical underpinnings of society with the adept skills of a seasoned environmental journalist. And in this well-written, accessible book she concludes that we humans must stop dithering and denying reality and, instead, act urgently if we are to change course in time. Dumanoski's work on this book began when she was a Journalist in Residence at the CEJ and School of Journalism and Mass Communication for a semester in 1993.
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August 2009: Len Ackland has returned to the CEJ after his yearlong sabbatical and Guggenheim fellowship. His research, which included three trips to Europe, focused on the history of Germany's approach to nuclear power (and weapons) leading to the country's decision in 2000 to phase out of nuclear power by 2022 even though nuclear currently provides about 25 percent of its electricity. The first product of his work was a long article about the nuclear debate in the run-up to Germany's September 27, 2009 elections. It appeared in the July/August 2009 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine. An excerpt is at the CEJournal.
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June 2009: Bruce Barcott, '06 - '07 fellow, was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. He will use the fellowship to dive into a book on fishing rights starting this summer.
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June 2009: Joanna Kakissis, '08-'09 fellow, will be an International Reporting Project fellow this fall. She will travel to Bangladesh to cover climate change-related migration and environmental justice, which she worked on as her Scripps Fellowship project. You can follow her as she blogs from the field.
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May 2009: Len Ackland joined nine U.S. and 12 European journalists at the second annual U.S. - European Environmental Journalism Summit in Stockholm, Sweden and co-sponsored by the CEJ. The U.S. attendees at the four-day workshop included former Scripps Fellows David Baron, Leslie Dodson and Anne Raup, along with advisory board member Marley Shebala. The backdrop for the meeting was the upcoming global climate change meeting in December, under the European Union presidency of Sweden. Participants discussed issues such as cap and trade, shared multimedia stories produced on both sides of the Atlantic, talked about best journalism practices, went on a field trip to a marine lab in the Stockholm archipelago and got to know one another in the congenial atmosphere provided by The Swedish Institute and its program supervisor Susanna Wallgren. The group decided to experiment with a Facebook page to share thoughts and media stories.
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May 2009: Susan Moran, '01-'02 fellow, will be spending the '09-'10 academic year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She will study environmental epidemiology and the links between energy development and water resources.
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August 2008: The CEJ welcomes new faculty member Deserai Crow as Associate Director. Crow earned her PhD in spring 2008 from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Her dissertation focused on the role that mass media and political factors play in establishing Colorado water law and policy at the local and state government levels. Her research here at the CEJ will include a more detailed analysis of the communication and framing of complex environmental issues such as water law and energy development in Colorado and the West.
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June 2008: Congratulations to Len Ackland, co-director of the CEJ, for receiving a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to study Germany's plans to phase out nuclear power use. He will be taking a sabbatical during the '08-'09 school year.
- November 17, 2008: Dan Grossman, former Scripps fellow, has won
a Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancemant
of Science for his radio story, Meltdown: Inside Out.
You can listen to Meltdown: Inside Out online and view the full list of Science Journalism Awards winners at the AAAS website.
From the AAAS press release:
Grossman did "an outstanding job of reporting the science of global warming in ice sheets, mountain glaciers and sea ice," said Mary Knudson, a freelance writer who is also faculty adviser for science-medical writing students at The Johns Hopkins University. Grossman's series of reports "addressed a complex and very important issue with sophistication and with a very strong grounding in science," said Marc Kaufman of The Washington Post. The judges were impressed with the range of Grossman's work and the fact that he served as both producer and reporter for the ambitious project. This is the third time that Grossman has won the award. He previously won awards in the online category in 2003 and 2005.
- October 30, 2008: The Center for Environmental
Journalism is proud to announce it is hosting the "International
Environmental Journalism Summit" Nov. 12 - 15. It will include
one day of free, public talks by environmental journalists on Thursday,
Nov. 13th starting at 9:30 a.m. in the Aspen Room of the University
Memorial Center.
The summit will bring together European and American environmental journalists to discuss how we cover environmental issues, and how journalism influences public perceptions on key issues such as climate change. One of the goals of the conference is to compare American and European coverage. What are our shared values, and where do we diverge in our journalistic practices?
The summit is co-sponsored by the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, and the Center for Strategic and International Affairs in Washington, D.C.
View the summit agenda (pdf)
- Jan. 21, 2008: James O'Shea, Scripps Fellowships advisory board member, resigned his position as editor of the Los Angeles Times after refusing to proceed with further newsroom budget cuts requested by the paper's publisher. Click here for an excerpt of O'Shea's parting statement to the newspaper's staff.
- Jan. 19, 2008: Susan Avery, Scripps Fellowships advisory board member, has been named the first woman director and president of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution after 25 years of service at the University of Colorado. (Environmental journalism student Steve Graff wrote a story about Susan's upcoming move for the Daily Camera; find his article here: CU Professor to Head Woods Hole.) All of us at the CEJ wish Susan the best of luck in this exciting new endeavor, and we look forward to her continuing participation as one of our advisory board members!
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Dec. 13, 2007: Two former Scripps fellows have been awarded prestigious Alicia Patterson Journalism fellowships. Bill Adler, class of 2001/2002, was awarded a fellowship to work on his book, "The Life and Legacy of Joe Hill." And Dan Grossman, class of 1999/2000, was selected to work on a multimedia project titled "Dispatches from Global Warming's Hotspots."
Oct. 15, 2007: Former Scripps fellow Rachel Odell reports that she is leaving Skiing magazine to take an exciting new writing position at Redstone Strategy, a firm that works exclusively on poverty issues and environmental protection in the developing world.
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Sept. 11, 2007: Sad news — former Scripps fellow Natalie Kay Phillips passed away in Anchorage. Natalie's obituary appeared in the Anchorage Daily News on Sept. 14. Read more >>
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June 2007 Co-directors Len Ackland and Tom Yulsman lead environmental workshops on Colorado’s Western Slope. Read more >>
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May 16, 2007 Center for Environmental Journalism celebrates 10th anniversary. Read more >>
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May 2007 Ted Scripps Fellows Named. Read more >>