Journalism & Media

Forest Inventory May Provide Trail Guide to Ongoing Policy Crisis

U.S. forests face damage from drought, climate-driven disease and wildfire. To help track the state of our trees, Reporter’s Toolbox explores a massive set of Forest Service databases that details everything from deforestation and dead fuel status to deforestation and species mix. There’s even info on urban forests and grasslands. A closer look at the Forest Inventory and Analysis program.

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The Year Nature Became Mainstream Medicine

An unusual student journalist, moonlighting in between his Ph.D. training as a clinical psychologist, turned an interest in the ways nature can heal into an award-winning story for a prominent magazine, and in the process helped prompt skyrocketing interest among mainstream physicians in “prescribing nature.” Aaron Reuben shares his experience in the new EJ Academy.

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April 24, 2024

DEADLINE: Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grants

The National Press Foundation and the National Press Club Journalism Institute will award grants of $10,000 to $25,000 to US journalists for stories in any medium that center on environmental justice and environmental racism in the United States. Deadline: Apr 24, 2024.

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June 6, 2021

Knight Science Journalism at MIT Project Fellowships

This remote KSJ program offers a range of support to working U.S. journalists for independently conceived projects. Fellowships will be awarded for varying durations over the course of the academic year, beginning in Sep 2021 and ending in May 2022. Deadline is Jun 6.

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"Biden Says He Won’t Allow His DOJ To Seize Reporters’ Records"

"President Joe Biden on Friday responded to reports that the former administration secretly obtained records belonging to a reporter covering the Pentagon during Donald Trump’s presidency. “Absolutely, positively it’s wrong,” Biden told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins ..."

Source: HuffPost, 05/24/2021
June 3, 2021

Barriers in Science Communications for Black and People of Colour

Science Writers and Communicators of Canada hosts this online panel discussion at Noon ET, moderated by genomics researcher and science communicator Farah Qaiser (pictured), to illuminate the challenges and barriers — and hopes for dismantling them — faced by Black and People of Colour science communicators in Canada.

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"Electricity: Documents Reveal Natural Gas Chaos In Texas Blackouts"

"Texas' electricity leaders were deeply focused on natural gas shortages days before blackouts crippled the state in February and plunged the state's power industry into chaos, according to documents obtained by E&E News."

Source: E&E News, 05/21/2021
May 1, 2024

DEADLINE: Watchdog Writers Group Book Fellowship

The Watchdog Writers Group offers a $50,000 annual stipend, for up to two years, for journalists writing a book in the public interest. The non-residential fellowship program also pairs each fellow with a student at the Missouri School of Journalism, who will help conduct reporting for the book. Deadline: May 1, 2024.

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May 11, 2022

DEADLINE: Gumshoe Group's Public Records Payment Scheme for Freelancers

If you're a freelancer with an idea for a public records-based investigative project, the Gumshoe Group is offering grants of up to $1,500 to fund the research and work of filing open-records requests for your reporting project. May also include legal support. Apply by May 11, 2022.

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