Northwest (OR WA)

November 26, 2023

DEADLINE: Grist Fellowship Program

This one-year, paid program is designed to provide newsroom experience for US-based, early-career journalists who have a demonstrated interest in environmental and climate journalism and media. Six fellowships available this round. Deadline: Nov 26 for Mar 3, 2024 start.

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November 14, 2013

Book Author Pitch Slam in Seattle

Is there a topic you've been covering in depth that is screaming for further, more in-depth exploration? Is there an untold story or piece of environmental science or history that is unique to this region and its people that you've been pondering? Now is the time to bring out your ideas. Come to the first University of Washington Press/SEJ book pitch slam Thursday, November 14, 2013 from 6-8 pm in Seattle.

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Toxic Tank Cars? There's an App for That

When the Oregon government refused to tell her about oil trains, Eugene Weekly environment reporter Camilla Mortensen (pictured) learned about them from a train-hopping local cinematographer. Now you can roam the freight yards with your camera and know what you are looking at. And/or download the UN Number app.

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"Is Coal Port Money Fueling Republicans’ Campaigns?"

"Promoters of a giant coal export terminal, proposed for north of Bellingham, have given $40,000 to the Washington Republican Party, bucks that a Western Washington University professor suspects are being funneled into campaigns of sympathetic but officially 'non-partisan' Whatcom County Council candidates."

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10/04/2013

"Exhaust, Diesel Fumes Foul Public Schoolyards Across Washington State"

"More than half a century has elapsed since the Seattle School Board — with nary a raised eyebrow, records indicate — voted to allow one of the nation's biggest and busiest highways to be built cheek-by-jowl with John Marshall Junior High, trading away the school's playground for a larger plot of land nearby."

Source: InvestigateWest, 09/06/2013

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