The environment is one of today's key public and political issues. The increasing numbers of
media platforms are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural …

Environmental news coverage exploded in the late 1960s and became the norm in the
1970s. The number of environment reporters grew steadily in the succeeding decades along …

Many date the rise of the modern environmental movement and the beginning of modern
environmental journalism in the West to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962, which led to …

Exactly what constitutes environmental journalism has become more difficult to define in
today's crowded multimedia and social media landscape. While environmental journalism is …

In 1990, I wrote an essay about the first two decades of environmental journalism in the
United States and was not too optimistic about how this specialty would progress as the …

In the last 50 years, awareness of human impact on our planet has grown to such an extent
that environmental debates now have a permanent place in public discourse. In order for …

Environment Reporters in the 21st Century is the story of a relatively new journalistic beat,
environmental reporting. This book explores the development of the environmental beat as a …

The author of this chapter reports that,“The future of environmental journalism depends on
journalists who are properly trained to deal with all complexities of a career in environmental …

This chapter offers an evaluative assessment of the fluid, evolving interface between citizen
scientists and citizen journalists where the news reporting of environmental issues is …

“Sources, Strategic Communication, and Environmental Journalism” explores the balance of
power between environmental reporters and their sources. While the influence of …