Coverage: SEJ's 33rd Annual Conference

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SEJ's 33rd annual conference takes place April 3-7, 2024, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. Below, you'll find multimedia coverage provided by SEJ, UPenn, our multischool Student Newsroom, volunteers and conference attendees.

All available video and audio recordings are posted below. Note: Some recordings had poor audio quality due to technical issues or speakers not using the microphones.

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Wednesday, April 3
Thursday, April 4
Friday, April 5
Saturday, April 6
Sunday, April 7
Miscellaneous conference coverage (includes pre-conference and multi-session stories)

 


 

Wednesday, April 3

 

Workshop 1. Policy at a Watershed Scale: Local Lessons, Collective Solutions

 

Workshop 2. Combating Climate and Science Disinformation

Disinformation workshop lunchtime discussion with Michael Mann, author of “The New Climate War” and one of the climate scientists at the center of the trumped-up “ClimateGate” scandal, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of “Cyberwar,” “Creating Conspiracy Beliefs,” “Democracy Amid Crisis” and numerous other books. © Dale Willman.

 

Workshop 3. Covering the Energy Transition: Who Wins, Who Loses?

 

Opening Program: Welcome to Philly!

 

Thursday, April 4

 

All-Day Tour 3. Delaware Water Gap: Taken Land, Water Wars and an Uncertain Future

 

All-Day Tour 4. Delaware’s Holy Trinity: Balancing Environmental Justice in Cities, Farms & Beaches

 

All-Day Tour 5. Revolutionary Raptors: Hawk Mountain’s Role in Equity and Ecology

 

All-Day Tour 6. From Farmbelt to Pinelands: The Hidden Rural Lands (and Stories) of New Jersey

 

All-Day Tour 7. Stay or Go? Development vs. Open Space on New Jersey’s Ecological Jewel, the Delaware Bayshore

 

All-Day Tour 9. Energy in the East: Offshore Wind, LNG and Who Gets To Say “No” to Development

 

All-Day Tour 10. Fighting for Clean Water: From Benjamin Franklin to Water Woman

 

Afternoon Tour 11. The Energy Underneath Your Feet — Princeton’s Massive Geo-Exchange System and Transition to Net-Zero

 

Friday, April 5

 

U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan Keynote and Q&A

Jennifer Hijazi, Senior Reporter, Bloomberg Law and U.S. EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. Copyright: © Dale Willman. See more photos of this event on our public Flickr page.

 

Concurrent Sessions 1. Making Obscure Animals and Ecosystems Compelling Main Characters

 

Concurrent Sessions 1. A Just Transition for Oil Towns

 

Concurrent Sessions 1. Communicate, Don’t (Just) Infuriate: Strengthening How Climate Journalism Converses With the World

 

Concurrent Sessions 1. Eat Local, Just Transition and the Search for Holistic Food System Solutions

 

Concurrent Sessions 1. Using Emerging Data and Climate Science to Better Cover Wildfire Smoke’s Effects

 

Concurrent Sessions 1. Working With Whistleblowers

 

Concurrent Sessions 1. Hydrogen: Climate Solution Or Climate Distraction?

 

Concurrent Sessions 1. Unpacking Rural Reporting: How Can Environmental Journalists More Fairly Represent Rural Communities?

 

Concurrent Sessions 2. On the Move

 

Concurrent Sessions 2. How the Essential, Dirty Steel Industry Is Going ‘Green’

 

Concurrent Sessions 2. What Type of Dataviz for What Type of Information?

 

Concurrent Sessions 2. Cutting Through Carbon Capture Greenwash

 

Concurrent Sessions 2. Big Costs, Sweeping Changes: What To Know About the IRA and IIJA

 

Concurrent Sessions 2. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Rethinking Environmental Justice Coverage

 

Concurrent Sessions 2. Care and Community As a Climate Solution

 

Concurrent Sessions 2. Covering the Environmental Impact of War

 

Lunch Breakout 1. Rethinking Environmental and Climate Journalism Education

 

Lunch Breakout 2. DEI Green 2.0 Report

 

Opening Plenary. Election 2024: How Will Climate Change Matter?

 

Sponsored Beat Dinner. At Your Doorstep: Covering and Attributing Climate Impacts in Your Community

 

Saturday, April 6

 

Mini-Workshop 1. Next-Level Community Engagement: Tools and Strategies for Growing Environmental News Audiences

 

Mini-Workshop 2. Crafting Impactful Environmental Narratives: Leveraging Communication Science, Visuals and Technology in Storytelling

 

Mini-Workshop 3. Beyond Climate Change: Reporting on the Global Polycrisis, Its Roots and Solutions

 

Mini-Workshop 4. Nearby and Far Away: What Local Reporting and Global Investigative Collaborations Can Learn From One Another

 

Mini-Workshop 5. Covering Plastics: At the Tipping Point

 

Mini-Workshop 6. How To Turn Environmental and Disaster Data Into Stories

 

Mini-Workshop 7. Using Public Records To Follow the Money in Environmental Stories

 

Mini-Workshop 8. Decarbonizing Transportation: A Reporter’s Guide

  • Audio recording of Panel 1. How to Cover Electric Vehicles in Your Community (01:05:23 / 30.0MB).
  • Audio recording of Panel 2. The Rise of Walkable Cities: Covering Public Transit and Micromobility as Climate Solutions (01:04:44 / 29.7MB).
  • Event description.

 

Lunch Breakout 2. Decarbonizing Transportation: A Reporter’s Guide (continued)

 

Closing Plenary. Battling Disinformation, Fending Off Despair and Staying Relevant: What’s the Future for Environmental Journalism?

 

Mini-Tour 2. Urban Hiking: Explore Wissahickon Valley Park

 

Mini-Tour 5. Sniffer Dogs, Invasives and Rare Plants

 

Mini-Tour 8. The Philly Heat Pump Lab: Electrification, Efficiency and the Home Energy Transition

 

Sunday, April 7

 

Breakfast, Books and Birds

 

Miscellaneous conference coverage (includes multi-session and 'informed-by-the-conference' stories)

 

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