What brought together two teams of student reporters, half a dozen states and 1,000 miles apart? For one, the high environmental cost of chemical fertilizer. For another, a pair of dedicated journalism teachers. Cynthia Barnett and Sara Shipley Hiles share how they took the project from daydream to reality, brought students into the field and got pickup from numerous news
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The Society of Environmental Journalists will partner in the expansion of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, along with Report for America and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The re-upped initiative will be supported by a new $2.47 million, three-year grant from the Walton Family Foundation. Find out more and how journalists can get involved.
Society of Environmental Journalists’ president Luke Runyon (pictured, left) looks forward to the upcoming SEJ conference in Boise and announces the SEJ Future Council a new fundraising initiative aimed at providing financial support for the organization’s efforts to increase and improve environmental journalism.