1st Edition

Environment Reporters in the 21st Century

By JoAnn Myer Valenti Copyright 2010
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Environment Reporters in the 21st Century is the story of a relatively new journalistic beat, environmental reporting. This book explores the development of the environmental beat as a specialty during the last thirty years. It also discusses broader trends within American journalism resulting from technological changes that challenge traditional mediums, especially newspapers and magazines.... Read more

Foreword by Bud Ward

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Environment Reporting

1. The Environment Beat
2. Studying Specialized Environment Reporters

Part II: The Environment Reporters of the 21st Century

3. The Environment Reporters
4. The Work Environment
5. Covering the Environment
6. Wrestling with Objectivity and Fairness

Part III: The Craft: Telling the Environment Story

7. On the Beat: Environment Reporters at Work
8. Environment Reporters in a Time of Change

Appendix A: The Survey
Appendix B: Sources Used by Environment Reporters
Appendix C: Three Factors in Environmental Reporter Analysis: Objective/Fair Reporters, Workplace Critics, and Advocates/Civic Journalists

Index

Biography

JoAnn Myer Valenti