Past SEJ Board Presidents

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Halle Parker
Environment Reporter, WWNO's Coastal Desk (New Orleans, La.)
2024-

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Luke Runyon
Colorado River Basin Reporter and Editor, KUNC (Greeley, Colo.)
2022-2024

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Sadie Babits
Professor of Practice, Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
2020-2022

Meera Subramanian
Independent Journalist
2019-2020
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Bobby Magill
Bloomberg Environment
2016-2019

Jeff Burnside
Independent Journalist
2014-2016

Don Hopey
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2012-2014

Carolyn Whetzel
Bloomberg BNA
2010-2012

Christy George
Oregon Public Broadcasting
2008-2010

Tim Wheeler
The Baltimore Sun
2006-2008

Perry Beeman
The Des Moines Register
2004-2006

Dan Fagin
Newsday
2002-2004

James Bruggers
The (Louisville) Courier-Journal
2000-2002

Mike Mansur
The Kansas City Star
1998-2000

Kevin Carmody
Chicago Daily Southtown
1997-1998

Rae Tyson
USA Today
1996-1997

Emilia Askari
Detroit Free Press
1994-1996

Jim Detjen (founding president)
The Philadelphia Inquirer
1990-1994

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