SEJ Webinar: Clearing the Air: What the Media Gets Right – and Wrong – When Covering Environmental Issues

Event Date:

April 13, 2020

Co-sponsored by SEJ and the

University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment

Watch the video recording.

From climate change to deforestation and plastic pollution, media coverage is critical to shining a light on our planet’s biggest environmental challenges — and even more so now as experts are pointing to connections between biodiversity loss and the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19. A panel of professional journalists will discuss what the media gets right — and wrong — when covering contentious environmental topics, as well as new developments that may spell change on the horizon.

Panelists:

Amy Westervelt, Editor in chief, Drilled News, @amywestervelt
Eric Holthaus, Climate Correspondent with The Correspondent and Institute on the Environment Visiting Scholar, @EricHolthaus
Kendra Pierre-Louis, Climate Reporter, The New York Times, @KendraWrites
Maxwell Boykoff, Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, @boykoff
Todd Reubold, Associate Director, Institute on the Environment and Publisher, Ensia, @treubold (moderator)