Society of Environmental Journalists

The fossil fuel industry’s outsized climate policy role in the U.S.’s most populous state is the core of award-winning coverage from investigative journalist Aaron Cantú for nonprofit newsroom Capital & Main. In the new #SEJournalInsideStory Q&A, Cantú shares some of what challenged him in his reporting, what surprised him most and a lesson learned. https://lnkd.in/dHVmK_RR

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty, maximize fossil fuel production and has named a cabinet replete with climate action skeptics. But will all that stop the transition to cleaner power? #SEJournalEJTransitionWatch https://lnkd.in/dqnDSbZ5

Society of Environmental Journalists is home to find any kind of help to tell stories of our environment and community around us - this community helped me to shape my environment and climate change reporting. Thank you Society of Environmental Journalists and please do consider helping this amazing community of reporters!

#SEJSpotlight: Meet SEJ member tanka dhakal. Tanka is a freelancer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He reports in both Nepali and English on the environment, climate change, science, health, labor migrations, marginalized communities and the intersections among them. Learn more and connect with Tanka: https://lnkd.in/edfzDDKJ

This holiday season, please help SEJ support the vital work of journalists like Amir Khafagy: https://conta.cc/4iGKgia. Your donation will help SEJ provide essential training, resources, reporting grants, networking, community and more. SEJ.org/donate — now accepting Zelle. Many thanks!

If the idea of an FBI director targeting journalists seems so last century, then Trump’s pick for the post has news for you. And that's not all. #SEJournalWatchDog warns of possible woes for free speech advocates from the new administration. What's to be done? https://lnkd.in/eCymTNFc

Did you miss our #SciWri24 national meeting this year? The first post in our NASW conference coverage is now posted! Read a recap of our awards ceremony in Raleigh filed by NASW conference travel fellow Nina Elkadi, featuring #SciWriAwards recipients Christopher Pollon, Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, W.J. Hennigan, Vince Beiser, Arijit Sen and Lauren Caruba, Elizbeth Endicott, and Marilyn Perkins. (Our gratitude for professional photography provided by Megan Mendenhall.) Read Nina's Coverage: https://lnkd.in/giCZk-8j Revisit Our 2024 Journalism Awards: https://lnkd.in/gJ98sKfa Revisit Our 2024 Institutional Writing Awards: https://lnkd.in/gNNry6wR

Who Donald Trump nominates to head leading U.S. public health agencies — including vaccine skeptics, COVID-19 contrarians and physicians with little public health experience — is a story for environmental reporters to watch closely. The latest #SEJournalEJTransitionWatch offers a rundown: https://lnkd.in/e_4XP-RW

In this season of giving, please help SEJ support journalists like Katherine Cheng: https://conta.cc/41pE5bT. Your donation will help us provide essential training, resources, networking and community for environment reporters, students and educators. Give today at SEJ.org/donate. Thank you!

The Chronicle is accepting applications for the 2025 cohort of Philanthropy & Nonprofit Accountability Fellows. Each year we select four news organizations to participate, awarding $30,000 to support training and enhance their coverage of nonprofits. Our goal is to give local news organizations access to the tools and training they need to write powerful stories that examine the role of nonprofits and foundations in their communities and attract and engage more readers. Fellows work closely with Chronicle reporters to develop, report, and publish articles about the people and organizations in their regions that are trying to solve pressing problems. Click through to learn more about the fellowship and the application process: https://lnkd.in/g-CtiXx5 Important Dates: Application deadline: January 31, 2025 Notification date: February 28, 2025 Fellowship duration: April 1, 2025 - March 31, 2026 Previous fellows include: Flatwater Free Press, Henrico Citizen/T3 Media, LLC, NowKalamazoo, New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative, The Arizona Republic | azcentral.com | La Voz, Boston Business Journal, The Post and Courier, WHQR Public Media, and more.