SEJ Regional Conferences

Watch the recording of the Society of Environmental Journalists' 9th annual look ahead at the year's key energy and environmental issues. Hosted by National Geographic Society and co-sponsored by the Wilson Center, the event kicked off with a prerecorded interview with new White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy, followed by a live interview with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, and SEJ's annual panel of leading journalists offering their predictions for the year ahead.

Join Google News Labs’ Maggie Farley for a quick tour of Google’s new tools for journalists, with a particular focus on environmental journalism. Learn how to find and analyze data, then learn how to tell stories using clear, powerful data visualization tools. Noon-12:30 p.m. ET each day. Sponsored by SEJ and The Resilience Media Project of Columbia University's Earth Institute.

With the 2020 election results in, environmental journalists want to know what’s on the agenda for the next four years. Join us Nov 24, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET for an #SEJ2020 webinar for journalists seeking to report on the connections between climate, COVID-19 and the economy.

Join us on July 8, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET, for the third #SEJ2020 webinar, this time with environmental reporters and storytellers who will discuss their experiences covering climate change, COVID-19 and racial inequality.

Join Ensia publisher Todd Reubold for a virtual conversation with Kendra Pierre-Louis (The New York Times), Eric Holthaus (The Correspondent), Amy Westervelt (Drilled News) and Maxwell Boykoff (University of Colorado), focused on what the media gets right — and wrong — when covering critical environmental issues like climate change. Presented by SEJ and the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, 4:45-6:00 p.m. ET.

How should the media cover a crisis? SEJ's 2020 webinar series launches with a discussion of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that could inform how journalists, scientists and advocates communicate about and address climate change. Join panelists Denis Hayes, The Earth Day Network and The Bullitt Foundation; Alice Hill, Council on Foreign Relations; and John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moderated by Guardian US' Emily Holden. All journalists welcome for this free event, Noon-1:00 p.m. ET. Sign up to join or receive the recording.