CEJ In Focus

A journalism initiative to expand coverage of Western water issues is launching this month at the University of Colorado Boulder with support from a two-year, $700,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation. The Water Desk, based in the College of Media, Communication and Information’s Center for Environmental Journalism, is dedicated to boosting coverage of Western water issues, with a focus on the Colorado River Basin. The goal is to help educate the public and inform policy decisions.

On March 20, Mongabay founder Rhett Butler, reporter Taran Volckhausen and Scripps Fellow Chris Lett led a panel discussion titled, “Global Environmental Journalism: Under Siege or Dawning Anew?” In a time when environmental journalism resorts more and more to desk reporting, nonprofit news organization Mongabay is leading the way back...

Currently reporting on sloth bears in India through a National Geographic Explorer Grant, Gloria Dickie, freelance journalist and University of Colorado Boulder graduate, gained valuable hands-on experience during her time at CU Boulder and through the Center for Environmental Journalism. Jokingly referred to as a “cub reporter,” Dickie has reported...

The metanarrative of climate change coverage is by now a familiar cliché: Humans ruin everything we touch and the ravages of a warming world are inevitable. But the second season of the “Threshold” podcast, “Cold Comfort,” challenges that flat storyline by building a new narrative around nuanced, multiple perspectives of...

T he 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 of everything university life has to offer. This series is a chance to get to know this...

All five 2018-19 Scripps Fellows — Chris Lett, Stephen R. Miller, Peter Brannen, Elizabeth Royte and Hillary Rosner — fielded questions from moderator David Baron and the audience at the Feb. 20 CEJ forum, Journalism in an Age of Distraction. Fellows talked about how they got started, where the craft...

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 of everything university life has to offer. This five-part series features each of the talented journalists in this...

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 of everything university life has to offer. This series is a chance to get to know this year’s...

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...

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...