October 22, 2024 — The Society of Environmental Journalists is proud to announce the winners of the SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment, which honor the best stories released from April 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024, and the best books on environmental topics published in 2023.
The SEJ Awards stand as the world's largest and most comprehensive environmental journalism competition. This year, judges and subject-matter experts from the field, comprising volunteer independent journalists and professors, read, listened and viewed 532 entries across 10 categories.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Award, recognizing the "best of the best" of environmental reporting, will award $10,000 to one entry chosen from these first-place winners of SEJ's Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Sponsored by the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, this prestigious award will be announced live on January 28 — please save the date and stay tuned for details.
Congratulations to all the 2024 SEJ Award winners!
SEJ's 2024 Awards for Reporting on the Environment are...
Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Large
Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Small
Outstanding Beat Reporting, Large
Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small
Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, Large
Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, Small
Outstanding Feature Story, Large
Outstanding Feature Story, Small
Outstanding Student Reporting
Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
SEJ's 2024 Esteemed Judges and Screeners
SEJ's 2024 Awards Committee
Esteemed Judges and Screeners, 2024 SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment
Perry Beeman, Reporter, Iowa Capital Dispatch/States Newsroom (retired)
Hal Bernton, Freelance Journalist
Kendal Blust, Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Arizona School of Journalism
Erika Bolstad, Freelance Journalist and Author
Carrie Brown, Associate Professor of Journalism, Montclair State University (New Jersey) and former Founding Director, Engagement Journalism MA program, Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York
Merrill Brown, Editorial Director, G/O Media
Nancy Castaldo, Author at National Geographic, Algonquin Books for Young Readers, Clarion Books
Chris Clark, Producer/Editor/Journalist
Denis Cuff, Bay Area News Group (retired)
Zoey England, Chief of Staff, Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Connecticut
Peter Fairley, Freelance Journalist
Eric Fan, Bloomberg News
Jordan Gass-Pooré, Journalist, Hazard NJ Podcast
Bennet Goldstein, Investigative Reporter/Report For America Corps Member
Rebecca Hersher, Reporter, National Public Radio's Science Desk
Sharon Honore, Associate Professor of Communications, University of the Virgin Islands
Ania Hull, Freelance Journalist
Stephen Hume, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, University of Victoria
Cheryl Katz, Freelance Science/Environment Journalist
Elaine Kurtenbach, Asia Business Editor, The Associated Press
Jennifer LaFleur, Senior Editor, Center for Public Integrity
Mike Lee, Reporter, E&E News
Coco Liu, Reporter, Bloomberg Green
John Mecklin, Editor in Chief, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Mary Miller, Independent Writer
Molly Peterson, California Correspondent, Public Health Watch
Sinduja Rangarajan, Senior Investigative Data Reporter, Bloomberg News
Cindy Salo, Freelance Journalist
Doug Struck, Senior Journalist-in-Residence, Emerson College; and Freelance
Aditi Tandon, Senior Production Editor, Mongabay India
Marcy Trent Long, Founder, Sustainable Asia
Valerie Vande Panne, Freelance Reporter and Editor
Warren Vieth, Journalist (retired) and Chairman, NonDoc
Brett Walton, Reporter, Circle of Blue
Robert Wyss, Professor Emeritus, University of Connecticut
SEJ 2024 Awards Committee
Cynthia Barnett, Freelance journalist and author, EJ instructor at the University of Florida
Dan Fagin, New York University
Susan Hess, Columbia Insight
Breanna Rittman, WMBD-TV/WYZZ News
Parimal Rohit, CoStar News
Ex Officio:
Tony Barboza, Editorial Writer, Los Angeles Times and SEJ Board Liaison to the Awards Committee
Chris Bruggers, Awards Director (cbruggs@sej.org)
Thank you to our Awards judges and screeners over the years!
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