Kiplinger Fellowship in Local weather Change Reporting declares record of professional audio system for April displays

Ben Siegel
The Schoonover Heart

The Kiplinger Fellowship in Local weather Change Reporting is proud to announce its record {of professional} audio system who symbolize among the prime leaders in journalism and local weather sciences.

This 12 months’s fellowship will characteristic 15 trainers who will give displays to 19 environmental journalism fellows whereas on Ohio College’s Athens campus, April 18-22.

“We’re particularly happy to current to our U.S. and worldwide fellows such a powerful group of journalists, scientists and coverage analysts. That is our first time dedicating our fellowship to such an necessary matter and we’re delighted to have some spectacular trainers serving to us,” Kevin Z. Smith, govt director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism, mentioned. “And, a lot of them have roots in Ohio College.”

The fellowship will start with a roundtable dialogue led by Kiplinger Program benefactor Knight Kiplinger, former editor-in-chief of the Kiplinger media firm that gave America Kiplinger Monetary E-newsletter and Kiplinger Private Finance journal.

Different audio system/trainers will embrace: 

• Doug Haddix is an unbiased media guide and former director of the nationwide journalism group Investigative Reporters and Editors. He was beforehand a vp for communications and director of the  Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio State College. He’s a former newsroom editor having labored for the Columbus Dispatch, Scranton Instances Tribune and Springfield (Ohio) Information Solar. Haddix will focus on social media instruments and techniques for masking local weather change. 
• Amy Nordrum, (B.S.J., HTC, ’10) is the present editorial director of particular initiatives and operations at MIT Expertise Overview. She coordinates the annual lists of 10 Breakthrough Applied sciences and Innovators Below 35 and oversees the newsroom’s copy circulation processes, freelance contributions, fellowship program, and engagement workforce. She’s going to discuss together with Maria Gallucci on freelancing local weather change tales. 
• Maria Gallucci, (B.S.J., HTC, ’08), is the clear power reporter at Canary Media the place she covers hard-to-decarbonize sectors and efforts to make the power transition extra reasonably priced and equitable. She was most lately a contributing author for Grist and IEEE Spectrum, and was beforehand a employees reporter for InsideClimate Information, Mashable, and Mexico Metropolis newspapers.
• Tom Henry, (M.A. ’94) is a longtime award-winning environmental author for the Toledo Blade. His work has appeared within the Washington Instances, Pittsburgh Submit-Gazette, Dayton Each day Information, Stars and Stripes, Yahoo Information and on ABC Radio. 
• Sheri McWhirter is an setting reporter for MLive Media Group who covers local weather change, power, and infrastructure in Michigan. Her public affairs and environmental tales seem in a sequence of every day newspapers, together with the Petoskey Information-Overview and the Traverse Metropolis Document-Eagle.
• Stephen Mencher is a multimedia reporter, editor, producer and pioneer in podcasting, digital audio and manufacturing on the net from Baltimore. He spent a earlier three-year stint in Sonoma County, California working as information director of PBS/NPR stations KRCB radio and TV and KPJK TV, beneath the umbrella of Northern California Public Media. 
• Henry, McWhirter and Mencher will maintain a panel dialogue on localizing local weather change tales.
• Providing a session on Google Instruments for reporting on local weather change will likely be longtime journalism coach Mike Reilley. He has been a lecturer on the College of Illinois, Chicago for the previous seven 12 months and is the creator/administrator of The Society of Skilled Journalists’ profitable on-line Reporter’s Toolbox. He’s an SPJ coach the Google Information Initiative coaching program and in addition owns Penny Press Digital, LLC, a digital consulting firm.
• A duo of digital veterans will supply a session on cell journalism. Dr. Len Clark and Michael Castellucci, the brains behind “Create With Cell,” will spend a day displaying fellows the ins and outs of cell journalism with solely their smartphones in hand.
• Castellucci is a veteran TV journalists who’s labored in Dallas, Los Angeles and San Diego. He’s the creator of “Phoning It In” a course on cell journalism and is at the moment a video information artist in residence at Michigan State College.
• Clark was an early adopter and pioneer in cell expertise, who’s a professor of follow in sports activities communication at Virginia Tech College. In his spare time, he covers Notre Dame soccer for Irish 101 and Irish Illustrated. 
• Dr. Vijay Limaye is a senior local weather and well being scientist with the Pure Assets Protection Council. As an epidemiologist, he broadly addresses worldwide environmental well being challenges. He’s a former scientist with the U.S. Environmental Safety Company, specializing in Clear Air Act regulatory implementation, air high quality monitoring coverage, and well being threat communication. Limaye will discuss concerning the influence of local weather change on private well being and public well being insurance policies geared toward countering local weather change results. 
• Justin Worland, senior correspondent for Time, is masking local weather change and the intersection of coverage, politics and society. A Harvard Faculty graduate, his work goals to inform the local weather story in new methods, connecting the dots between the altering planet and modifications in coverage, enterprise and society. Since coming to the beat in 2015, his work has included an array of options and canopy tales—from Greta Thunberg’s Individual of the Yr story to his latest “Local weather Is All the pieces” cowl. He’ll converse on environmental justice and how one can correctly report on the problems of this theme. 
• Dr. Sarah Davis is an Ohio College affiliate professor within the Voinovich College of Management and Public Service the place she teaches programs in environmental research and sustainability. She researches system-level power conversion effectivity, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse gasoline fluxes in managed landscapes utilizing experimental and modeling approaches. She’s going to discuss concerning the intersection of science and governmental coverage making.
• Sara Schonhardt, (B.S.J. ’03) is a world local weather reporter for Surroundings and Power Information in Washington, D.C. She at the moment serves as first vp and applications chair for the worldwide group – Society of Environmental Journalists. She’s going to particularly discuss worldwide local weather change coverage and the relation with U.S. local weather initiatives. 
• Angie Massie, (B.S.C., HTC, ’99)  is the senior vp of dwell storytelling and interim head of promoting on the WeatherChannel. She is a former govt producer at CNN and beforehand labored at NBC. She can be a WOUB alumna. She’s going to current on masking pure disasters associated to local weather change.