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Environmental Journalism
What is it?
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What is Journalism?
• Merriam Webster:
• the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media
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Huh?
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Journalism:• Telling true stories, well and accurately.• Communicating information that will help people make sense of their
world. • Getting the story behind the story, avoiding the spin, finding the
truth.• A public trust with citizens to investigate and expose wrongs and
trumpet rights.• Doug Saunders : “universal reflex of citizenship.”• Adding meaning to facts. • “Gathering, analyzing, and disseminating socially relevant information
in a consistent, transparent, and honest way.” --Luis Santos• --Thanks to Gina Chen!
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What is Good News Writing?• What happened? • How has the world changed?• So what? • ABC: accuracy, brevity, clarity.• multiple authoritative, reliable sources• Quotes effectively• Provides context • balanced, unbiased• Shows the reader what happened; doesn’t tell the reader
what to think.
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The five Ws and an H
• Who• What• Where• When• Why • and How
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What is environmentalism?
• Environmentalism, is a broad philosophy and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the state of the environment.
• -Wikipedia
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Huh?
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Ok, really, what’s environmentalism?
• "The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
•—Rachel Carson, 1954
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Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson’s editor:
• Conservationists need words because what they are trying to do is to enlighten and inform: to change fundamental attitudes , not because they say so, but because they have the facts that will command such change.
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The Forest Beyond the Pyramid
Most important & newsworthy
Least Important; supporting details
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Michael Frome:
• Environmental writing reaches deeper with beginning, middle, and end integrally joined. It thinks not simply of Who, What, When, Where, Why and How, but of species instead of an animal, a forest instead of a tree.
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… the Whole
writing with a purpose…thinking about the whole, with breadth and perspective– --Michael Frome
Asking deeper questions.--Bill McKibben
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Frome: More than reporting
• Social service• Voice to struggle• Honesty and purpose• Risk and sacrifice• Care for the non-human world
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Are environmental reporters just tree huggers with a notebook?
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No, but get beyond the…
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Report. Don’t Exhort.
• People who want to write about the environment, care about the environment. That means they don’t think the way most people think. –Candy Page, BFP
• You can’t assume everyone shares your values, speaks Ecologish or gives a shit about trees.
• Make them care by showing them what’s true.
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Felicity Barringer
• Good guys vs evil polluters is not always useful• Take the side of science
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Andrew Revkin
• Convey what the science has revealed• What is not understood• Future research• Amount of uncertainty
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Revkin
• Activism lies in choosing subjects like climate change and biodiversity loss that the media tend to shy away from because they don’t fit our norms:– Clear news “peg”– Risks relevant to daily life
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• “Environmental stories don’t break, they ooze.”
•—Frank Allen, Ex-Wall Street Journal writer