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Air Pollution Top of the Agenda for Beth Gardiner's SIUC Visit

A worker cleans a solar panel on top of a factory building in Baoding City. China is installing a soccer field's worth of solar panels every hour. Image by Sean Gallagher. China, 2017.

A worker cleans a solar panel on top of a factory building in Baoding City. China is installing a soccer field's worth of solar panels every hour. Image by Sean Gallagher. China, 2017.

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 (All day) to Thursday, April 18, 2019 (All day)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
1236 Lincoln Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901
United States

On April 17 and April 18, 2019, Pulitzer Center grantee journalist Beth Gardiner will visit Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) to discuss her extensive reporting on pollution in China and Poland supported by the Pulitzer Center. 

Gardiner is a London-based environmental journalist and a former longtime Associated Press reporter. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Smithsonian.com.

In addition to her Pulitzer Center-supported reporting, Gardiner will discuss her recently published book, Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.

While at SIUC, Gardiner will lead classroom conversations in journalism, comparative public law, and political science courses, including "Writing for Mass Media," "Journalism Law," and "Editing."

SIUC is part of the Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium network