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Former Scripps Fellow Stephen R. Miller hadn't initially planned to travel to Bangladesh, but connections he made at CU Boulder showed him that what was happening there was crucial to the book idea he was researching as a fellow. So, in August of 2019, Miller flew to Dhaka and happened...

In September 2017, the Center for Environmental Journalism welcomed an inaugural group of Scholars-in-Residence. This program, which we have renamed Journalists in Residence, hosts local working journalists who serve for two years at the CEJ—serving as resources for the Ted Scripps Fellows, students and CEJ leadership; contributing to new programs...

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...

This year, former Scripps Fellow David Mayfield’s project, Catch the King, set an official Guinness World Record as the world’s largest environmental survey. Catch the King, which was founded in Hampton Roads, VA, uses citizen science to collect GPS flood data in coastal Virginia. During astronomical high tides (the highest...

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...

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...

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...

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 five fellows selected for the 2019-20 class include nationally-known authors, as well as magazine and radio...

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...