NYTI: NY TIMES INSTITUTE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM

 

Are you a Business, Economics or Environment/Science Journalist?

Don't Miss an Opportunity to

Make Your Future Reporting Matter

 

The 5th Annual NY Times Institute on Environmental Journalism

The Nexus Between Environment, Economics and Business

 

Hosted by the Punta Cana Ecological Foundation at the Punta Cana Resort and Club

To give you the unique setting of a place where issues play out on the ground

Learn from experts about leading environmental topics from both the scientific and economic perspective

Gain the skills to more accurately report on complex issues, and understand broader social and economic implications.

Take part in reporters workshops that help you immediately use what you've learned to develop story ideas, cultivate reliable sources and make stories locally relevant.

See how issues play out "on the ground" in a booming tourist location that is attempting to balance environmental, social and business goals.

Visit local environmental and social programs and sites of interest, lead by the Punta Cana Ecological Foundation

Application Deadline February 15, 2009

Application is available for download here

For more information, please see our brochure

 

STIPENDS AVAILABLE

Stipend application available here

Applications still being accepted. Stipends available based on need.

More information on the New York Times Company Foundation’s Institutes for Journalists can be found here

 

The popular media, be it print, radio, television, or online, are essential to the process of disseminating information about environmental issues and their relationship to our health, the economy, and business. For this reason, it is extremely important that journalists receive the clearest and most accurate information they possibly can from scientists, economists, and those familiar with business practices and market cycles. To this end, CEES developed -- in conjunction with The New York Times Co. Foundation, the Nurture Nature Foundation, and the Columbia School of Journalism -- an Institute for Environmental Journalism. The annual 5-day Institute devotes mornings to presenting the latest science and environmental economics, and afternoons to reporters' workshops, in which journalists work to accurately translate the science into stories that will grab the public's attention.


The Institute has served over 50 journalists from key media outlets including The NY Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, LA Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, CNBC, NPR, ABC, and others.

Experts providing lectures to the journalists have come from Columbia University, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Wildlife Trust, Wildlife Conservation Society, American Museum of Natural History, The New York Botanical Garden, Pew Institute for Ocean Science, Resources for the Future, Duke University, Harvard University, and Goldman Sachs.