Special Reports

Peruse our special reports by project:

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The 2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy

SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with our eighth annual Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy. In the 2024 special report, we offer a series of forward-focused TipSheets and Backgrounders, plus more in the weeks ahead, including an overview and then coverage from the Society of Environmental Journalists' year-ahead roundtable on Nov. 16 in Washington, D.C.

 

 

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Climate Solutions: Business, Nature, Energy, Ocean

As part of an initiative of the Society of Environmental Journalists to help journalists better cover climate solutions, our special report takes a closer look at business-based, nature-based, methane/energy-based and ocean-based solutions, with reporting tipsheets, resource toolboxes, and links to SEJ webinars on each topic.

 

 

Covering Your Climate-The South

 

Covering Your Climate: The South

This special report is the second in a series designed to help journalists of all kinds cover the impacts of climate change in their region, and to report on actions taken to mitigate its worst effects and preparations for what can't be stopped. This special report on the Southern United States includes an extensive background overview, tipsheets for closer looks at anticipated impacts, at efforts to mitigate them and any plans to adapt. And to help cover this wealth of story ideas, also see our extensive regional resource toolbox.

 

 

 

Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor

This special report is designed to help journalists in the Pacific Northwest cover the impacts of climate change, as well as the actions taken to mitigate its worst effects and to adapt to what can’t be stopped. The report was produced February-March 2020 and includes a wide-ranging issue backgrounder, a toolbox and three tipsheets on climate impacts, mitigation and adaptation offering a wealth of story ideas for right now, and over the coming decade.

 

 

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The 2023 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment

The SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year. Check out the guide’s special, forward-focused TipSheets and Backgrounders, along with an overview analysis. We’ve also supplemented this year’s guide with a special look at environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest. Plus, reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists' year-ahead roundtable in February.

 

 

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The 2022 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment

SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with this "2022 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment" special report. The guide was rolled out in early January, with new features added through to its formal launch in late January at an annual roundtable organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists.​ Check out the guide's various Backgrounders, TipSheets and WatchDog reports.

 

 

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2021 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment

SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with this "2021 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment" special report. The report was formally launched Jan. 27, 2021, at an annual roundtable organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists and hosted virtually by National Geographic Society.​ Check out the guide's various Backgrounders, TipSheets and WatchDog reports, an overview analysis and live event coverage.

 

 

Latest Special Reports Items

February 2, 2021

January 26, 2021

  • Most Southern state leaders are doing the least to fight the climate crisis, despite having the most to lose environmentally and economically. When will that begin to change? The latest entry in our “Covering Your Climate: The South” special report looks at the politics of the climate crisis, the dominance of utilities, and the transportation and forestry sectors, along with the few climate breakthroughs. 

January 19, 2021

January 12, 2021

  • The South is ground zero for the climate crisis in the United States, yet little is being done to prevent impacts or protect communities. Will the South tap its potential to be part of the solution? Our special report, “Covering Your Climate: The South,” helps reporters cover the region, starting with a backgrounder on climate concerns from Texas to Virginia.

  • This Society of Environmental Journalists’ special report — “Covering Your Climate: The South” — is the second in a series designed to help journalists of all kinds cover the impacts of climate change in their region, and to report on actions taken to mitigate its worst effects and preparations for what can’t be stopped. This special report begins with the extensive background overview and in the coming weeks, we’ll publish three tipsheets with a wealth of story ideas for right now and over the coming decade, plus a resource toolbox. 

March 31, 2020

March 17, 2020

February 25, 2020

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