Eric Lipton speaking at the CEJ Ackland Lecture in Journalism. (Photo by: Shannon Mullane)

2018 Ackland Lecturer Eric Lipton looks at environmental journalism in the Trump era

Nov. 12, 2018

The Center for Environmental Journalism hosted three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Eric Lipton for its second annual Ackland Lecture in Journalism on Oct. 22. Lipton’s lecture centered around his efforts to bring more transparency to the federal government through his reporting on environmental issues. Lipton walked the audience through his...

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CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s New NEST Studio Aims to Bring Art and Science Together

Sept. 21, 2018

The inaugural exhibition of the University of Colorado’s NEST Studio for the Arts opens on Friday, September 21. NEST, which stands for Nature, Environment, Science, and Technology, Studio for the Arts is an initiative that came into existence through Grand Challenge funding and an idea between professors, Erin Espelie and...

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Five award-winning journalists named Center for Environmental Journalism Scripps fellows

Sept. 18, 2018

Five award-winning journalists have been named as the 2018-19 class of Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ. The new fellows include a CNN producer and nationally-known book authors and magazine journalists. Their work has appeared in such outlets as The Atlantic, National Geographic, The...

New Scholars in Residence program highlights local environmental journalists

Feb. 28, 2018

In September the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s Center for Environmental Journalism welcomed an inaugural group of Scholars in Residence. This new program hosts working journalists, who serve as ambassadors for two years at the Center for Environmental Journalism, act as guides for the Ted Scripps Fellows, current students, and CEJ...

"Author, Author!" book panel

Nonfiction 101: "Author, Author!" book panel provides publishing insight

Feb. 8, 2018

Five former Ted Scripps Fellows—David Baron, Scott Carney, Erin Espelie, Michael Kodas and Hannah Nordhaus—sat down together at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ campus on Feb. 1, 2018 to discuss the whys and hows of nonfiction book writing at the first ever Center for Environmental Journalism book publishing panel. While...

Michael Kodas (left) interviews an Indonesian environmental activist during one of his reporting trips to Sumatra and Borneo in 2014.

Author and Instructor Michael Kodas offers context on national wildfire outbreak

Nov. 21, 2017

Over the past several months, a series of massively destructive wildfires have ravaged the country. In light of these events, media outlets have turned to the expertise of Michael Kodas.

After Longyearbyen, the Arctic Lenses team flew to the research station of Ny-Älesund. Snow-draped mountains peeked up above the clouds as the small twin-engine plane descended toward the runway.

Journey to the top of the earth

Nov. 21, 2017

From the fall 2017 issue of CMCI Now : CU and Norwegian participants in the Arctic Lenses climate journalism project navigate a glacier in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Read story at CMCI Now

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*Center for Environmental Journalism turns 25*

Aug. 25, 2017

The ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s Center for Environmental Journalism celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, as well as the 20th anniversary of the Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellowship. The center, established in 1992, has hosted the Ted Scripps Fellowships since the 1997-98 academic year. For more than two decades, the...

Listen up: Ted Scripps Fellow Amy Martin launches Threshold podcast

Listen up: Ted Scripps Fellow Amy Martin launches Threshold podcast

Feb. 21, 2017

Amy Martin, one of five journalists selected for the Ted Scripps Fellowship in Environmental Journalism this year , launched her new podcast, Threshold , earlier this month. The podcast explores stories from the natural world, with the first season centering on the story of the American bison. Journalism master's students...

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CEJ Scripps Fellowship Helped Author Develop Award-Winning Book

June 1, 2016

Jonny Waldman won the 2016 Colorado Book Award in the general nonfiction category for his book Rust: The Longest War. In 2010, the Ted Scripps Fellowship at CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ’s Center for Environmental Journalism (CEJ) gave Waldman an opportunity to develop his idea further.

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