Five Things to Watch, Read and Listen To This #ClimateWeek
Want cutting-edge coverage of one of the most impactful issues of our time? Explore work created by CJS faculty, alumni and students.
Podcasts
Podcast: Toxic Labor - Futuro Investigates
The audio documentary for Toxic Labor, a multiple award-winning investigation between The Center for Public Integrity and Columbia Journalism Investigations.
Climate Change Pushes Auto Industry Into E-Bikes : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR
Sally Herships, director of the audio program at CJS, hosted an episode of The Indicator from Planet Money from NPR about the rise of E-Bikes.
Correspondent Matt Gutman and His ABC News Producing Team on Tracking Trash
Journalists from ABC News joined Columbia Journalism School's Lisa Cohen and Abi Wright to talk trash. Matt Gutman and his team tracked plastic's trip around the world in “Trashed: The Secret Life of Plastic Recycling," a 2024 duPont-Columbia Award-winning investigation about plastic recycling.
The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending wildfire season
Patrick Lohmann, a reporter for the nonprofit Source NM, spoke to Columbia Journalsim Review’s The Kicker about the new reality of wildfires, and why all reporters living in fire-prone areas may eventually find themselves covering wildfires.
Books and Published Work
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future: Elmore, Bartow J.
A 2020 Lukas Prize Winner, Seed Money is an authoritative and eye-opening history that examines how Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our food system.
Announcing the Launch of Climate Central’s Report: “Urban Heat Hot Spots in 65 Cities”
This comprehensive analysis led by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation sheds light on how urban heat islands (UHIs) amplify temperatures across 65 major U.S. cities, impacting 50 million people, or 15% of the total U.S. population.
Her Way. The corner of Freeman Street and… | by Chloe Appleby | Medium
Chloe Appleby, ‘24 M.S. Class of 2024 valedictorian, wrote her Master's Project about the forgotten legacy of female-led environmental activism in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Heat is killing workers in the U.S. — and there are no federal rules to protect them
Columbia Journalism Investigation Fellows collaborated with NPR to deliver this investigation into environmental heat exposure – and how Federal standards might have prevented hundreds of heat-related deaths.
Deforestation Inc. - ICIJ
“Deforestation, Inc.” won the 2024 John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. This in-depth investigative series exposed how a lightly regulated sustainability industry overlooks forest destruction and human rights violations.
Films/Videos
“Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island”
Professor Sarah Bellingham was a cinematographer for this feminist feature documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown with never-before-told stories.
Dean Duy Linh Tu and Professor Sebastian Tuinder produced two climate films for Scientific American – both featuring extreme environmental impacts on some of the most well-known and visited estuaries in the United States. Check out “Cape Cod” and the “Chesapeake Bay.”
“The Missiles on our Land”
Three CJS faculty members, Duy Linh Tu, Sebastian A. Tuinder and Nina Berman, produced a film to confront the human and environmental risks of land-based nuclear missles in the United States.
Panel: Reframing Climate Coverage | Alumni Weekend 2024
A panel of leading climate journalists looked at the challenges and opportunities for climate reporting in an age of increasing misinformation, political polarization and audience distraction. Moderated by Romany Webb, CJS Climate-Expert-In-Residence: Katherine Bagley ’09 M.S., Executive Director at Grist, Jeffery DelViscio ’06 M.S., Chief Multimedia Editor at Scientific American, and Zoeann Murphy, Visual Journalist at The Washington Post.