#SEJ2024 Closing Plenary: Battling Disinformation, Fending Off Despair and Staying Relevant — What’s the Future for Environmental Journalism?

Battling Disinformation, Fending Off Despair and Staying Relevant: What’s the Future for Environmental Journalism?
Saturday, April 6 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET
All welcome!

Environmental journalism — much like the news business more broadly — is in a state of flux. An increasingly urgent climate crisis combined with an evolving media landscape have raised big questions that linger over our profession and our beat. In this session, we’ll grapple with some of those big-picture issues. We’ll explore the best ways to combat the ever-present climate disinformation and consider evolving views on journalistic objectivity. We’ll consider how to cope with the feeling of despair. And we’ll also look at how some journalists and outlets have created new business models to fund their journalism.

Emcee: Meg McGuire, Founder, Delaware Currents and #SEJ2024 Conference Chair

Moderator: Justin Worland, Senior Correspondent, TIME Magazine

Speakers:
Emilia Askari, Journalist, Teacher, Researcher – Lecturer II, University of Michigan
Emily Atkin, Editor-in-Chief, HEATED
Tony Barboza, Editorial Writer, Los Angeles Times; and Treasurer and Finance Chair, Board of Directors, Society of Environmental Journalists
Mark Schleifstein, Environment Reporter, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate

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