Sasha Chavkin

Five Questions for the Fellows: Sasha Chavkin

Feb. 28, 2022

The Ted Scripps Fellowships have been bringing award-winning environmental journalists to CU Boulder for 25 years. Fellows embark on a year of courses, projects, field trips, seminars and more—taking advantage of everything university life has to offer. This series is a chance to get to know this year’s cohort of...

Anna V. Smith

Five Questions for the Fellows: Anna V. Smith

Feb. 24, 2022

The Ted Scripps Fellowships have been bringing award-winning environmental journalists to CU Boulder for 25 years. Fellows embark on a year of courses, projects, field trips, seminars and more—taking advantage of everything university life has to offer. This series is a chance to get to know this year’s cohort of...

Eternal Harvest_Film Poster by artist Anna Cosper

New film by former Scripps Fellows documents catastrophic legacy of US bombing campaign in Laos

Oct. 6, 2021

Eternal Harvest is a new film by former Scripps Fellows Karen Coates ('11) and Jerry Redfern ('13) which documents the catastrophic legacy of the US bombing campaign in Laos. The film follows their book, Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos (ThingsAsian Press, 2013).

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“Threshold” wins Peabody Award

Sept. 15, 2021

The podcast “Threshold,” brainchild of former Ted Scripps fellow Amy Martin ('16-'17), won a Peabody Award for its third season, titled “The Refuge.” Martin credits the Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism for giving her the time and space to help get “Threshold” off the ground.

Alec Luhn, 2020-2021 Scripps Fellow

Five Questions for the Fellows: Alec Luhn

Feb. 27, 2021

As part of the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism, award-winning journalists have been coming to CU Boulder for 21 years. Fellows embark on a year of courses, projects, field trips, seminars and more — taking advantage of everything university life has to offer. This series is a chance to...

Portrait of Amanda Mascarelli. Photo Credit: RJ Sangosti

Five Questions for the Fellows: Amanda Mascarelli

Jan. 26, 2021

As part of the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism, award-winning journalists have been coming to CU Boulder for 21 years. Fellows embark on a year of courses, projects, field trips, seminars and more — taking advantage of everything university life has to offer. This series is a chance to...

Jeff Burnside embraces Lindsey Fendt as she accepts the award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Small Market. Photo by Kelsey Simpkins

Bringing it Back Home, SEJ Conference Returns to Colorado

Jan. 2, 2020

October 9, the Society for Environmental Journalists made a homecoming back to Colorado. This year’s conference was held in Fort Collins, Colo., an hour away from where the organization held its first conference in Boulder (home of the CEJ), 28 years ago. In true Colorado fashion, conference-goers experienced all four...

Photo by Ted Wood, The Story Group

Scripps Fellowship unites journalists to investigate oil and gas risks

Feb. 12, 2019

In February 2018, Jason Plautz, a Ted Scripps Fellow at the time, got a message from a local scientist. There was a spike in oil-and-gas-related carcinogens in the air above Boulder the same night of an explosion at an oil well site 40 miles away, the researcher said. What started...

Photo by Hillary Rosner

Five Questions for the Fellows: Hillary Rosner

Jan. 22, 2019

The CEJ Scripps Fellowship has been bringing award-winning environmental journalists to CU Boulder for 21 years. Fellows embark on a year of courses, projects, field trips, seminars and more — taking advantage everything university life has to offer. This five-part series features each of the talented journalists in this year's...

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