SEJ Webinar: Clearing the Air: What the Media Gets Right – and Wrong – When Covering Environmental Issues

Co-sponsored by SEJ and the

University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment

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From climate change to deforestation and plastic pollution, media coverage is critical to shining a light on our planet’s biggest environmental challenges — and even more so now as experts are pointing to connections between biodiversity loss and the spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19. A panel of professional journalists will discuss what the media gets right — and wrong — when covering contentious environmental topics, as well as new developments that may spell change on the horizon.

Panelists:

• Amy Westervelt, Editor in chief, Drilled News, @amywestervelt
• Eric Holthaus, Climate Correspondent with The Correspondent and Institute on the Environment Visiting Scholar, @EricHolthaus
• Kendra Pierre-Louis, Climate Reporter, The New York Times, @KendraWrites
• Maxwell Boykoff, Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, @boykoff
• Todd Reubold, Associate Director, Institute on the Environment and Publisher, Ensia, @treubold (moderator)

When: April 13, 2020, 3:45-5:00 p.m. CDT / 4:45-6:00 p.m. EDT

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