Global Environmental Journalism: Under Siege or Dawning Anew?

Come hear from the founder and journalists of one of the most successful environmental journalism startups in the world, Mongabay, as they describe the challenges faced by reporters covering environmental issues in the global tropics and the hope and success that new models of environmental journalism are having on issues ranging from deforestation to species extinction.

Mongabay.com has a global audience of more than 30 million readers and publishes daily in 9 languages via 4 international bureaus which it is currently planning to expand. It is a nonprofit news organization founded 20 years ago this year that now has video and podcasting units.

What: Global Environmental Journalism: Under Siege or Dawning Anew?

When: Wednesday, March 20, 2010; 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Sponsored by: University of Colorado Boulder's Center for Environmental Journalism,  Albert A. Bartlett Science Communication Center, Mongabay.com

Where: CU's Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC), C120, 4001 Discovery Dr., Boulder, CO 80309

Panel:

• Rhett Butler, Mongabay’s founder/editor-in-chief/CEO
• Michael Kodas, CU's Center for Environmental Journalism deputy director and SEJ member
• Taran Volckhausen, 2011 CU journalism school alum who has filed over a dozen stories for Mongabay from Colombia
• Chris Lett, former CNN producer, current Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at CU and SEJ member