Event

International Environmental Reporting: Fertile Field or Fallow Ground?

Friday, October 21, 2011 - 03:00pm EDT (GMT -0400)

Pulitzer Center Managing Director Nathalie Applewhite will be speaking at a conference hosted by the University of Miami for the Society of Environmental Journalists. Join Nathalie for the afternoon meet and greet, entitled: International Environmental Reporting: Fertile Field or Fallow Ground? Applewhite's session is part of a larger three-day conference that incorporates a number of events surrounding global issues.

Event details:

As U.S. media outlets shutter foreign bureaus and zero out travel budgets, the importance of global environmental reporting has never been greater. What are U.S. and international organizations doing to support international reporting? And how can U.S. and overseas journalists work better together? Snacks and cash bar provided.

This session is sponsored and organized by the Woodrow Wilson Center, with additional support from the Transatlantic Media Network of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the International Reporting Project, and the Americas Business Council, abc* Foundation, whose Environmental Fellowships Program, directed by Nicolas Ibarguen, publisher of PODER Magazine, is bringing a group of well-known journalists to the conference from 8 Latin American countries.

Moderator: Peter Thomson, Environment Editor, PRI's The World

Speakers:
Nathalie Applewhite, Managing Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Geoffrey Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Reginald Dale, Director, Transatlantic Media Network; and Senior Fellow, Europe Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies
James Fahn, Executive Director, Earth Journalism Network, Internews
John Schidlovsky, Director, International Reporting Project

For more information on the conference events visit the Society of Environmental Journalists website.