Inside scoop on environmental journalism at UVic
Want to know why environmental issues
get the news coverage they do (or don’t)? Learn from the reporters
who write the stories at a public panel discussion at UVic on July 18, 1:30
p.m. in the Centre for Innovative Teaching, room 105. The event is co-sponsored
by the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) and UVic’s writing
department and school of environmental studies.
“Anyone who cares about the environment should care whether reporters cover it intelligently, with depth and context,” says Peter Fairley, SEJ vice president of membership and an environmental journalism instructor at UVic.
The panel, titled “Swinging from Fuel Cells to Fish Farms,” is part of an SEJ board meeting that will draw journalists from both Canada and the US. UVic writing instructor and award-winning journalist Stephen Hume, the first Canadian to receive the Dolly Connelly prize for environmental writing, is among the panelists. Others include Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Schleifstein and CTV environment reporter Mark Stevenson.
The July 18 event will mark the first time that the American-based SEJ has met in Western Canada, and the first Canadian SEJ board meeting in its 13-year history, evidence of the significance of its steadily growing Canadian membership, according to Fairley.
“I hope this will be remembered as a time when a network of environmental journalists in Canada really crystallized, and began seriously addressing the needs of the community,” he says.
“Anyone who cares about the environment should care whether reporters cover it intelligently, with depth and context,” says Peter Fairley, SEJ vice president of membership and an environmental journalism instructor at UVic.
The panel, titled “Swinging from Fuel Cells to Fish Farms,” is part of an SEJ board meeting that will draw journalists from both Canada and the US. UVic writing instructor and award-winning journalist Stephen Hume, the first Canadian to receive the Dolly Connelly prize for environmental writing, is among the panelists. Others include Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Schleifstein and CTV environment reporter Mark Stevenson.
The July 18 event will mark the first time that the American-based SEJ has met in Western Canada, and the first Canadian SEJ board meeting in its 13-year history, evidence of the significance of its steadily growing Canadian membership, according to Fairley.
“I hope this will be remembered as a time when a network of environmental journalists in Canada really crystallized, and began seriously addressing the needs of the community,” he says.
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