Journalism & Media

In Your Facebook Feed: Oil Industry Pushback Against Biden Climate Plans

"The ads appear on Facebook millions of times a week. They take aim at vulnerable Democrats in Congress by name, warning that the $3.5 trillion budget bill — one of the Biden administration’s biggest efforts to pass meaningful climate policy — will wreck the United States economy."

Source: NYTimes, 10/01/2021

Kerry Says Climate Talks Must Produce New Level Of Transparency

"The upcoming COP26 U.N. climate summit in Glasgow in November must produce a "new level of transparency and accountability", U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said during a debate at the Youth4Climate conference in Milan on Thursday."

Source: Reuters, 09/30/2021

Two Communities, Two Hazards and the Two Award-Winners Reporting Them

Two outstanding features — one on air pollution from a local coke plant in Pennsylvania, another on deaths from a shellfish toxin in Alaska, and both focused on public health, neglected communities and environmental justice — are the subject of the new Inside Story Q&A. Society of Environmental Journalists’ award-winners Nancy Averett and Zoya Teirstein share their reporting insights and advice.

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Getting Glasgow — Covering the Climate Conference From Afar

A critically important global gathering to advance the Paris climate accords gets underway in Scotland next month. And the latest TipSheet offers an extensive walk-through on the UN meeting — basic terminology and negotiating aims, global politics, green climate funds and more — to help environmental journalists report on it with relevance, whether from there or home.

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February 11, 2022

DEADLINE: 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Calling all indie book authors and publishers: This competition offers more than 80 awards – with over 80 monetary prizes totaling more than $10,000 in cash, including many for non-fiction. Deadlines: Sep 30, 2021 (earlybird/second category free); Feb 11, 2022 (final).

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