Year's Best Environmental Journalism Honored for 2004-2005

Year's Best Environmental Journalism Honored for 2004-2005

JENKINTOWN, Pa., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth year, the Society of Environmental Journalists honors the best in environmental reporting with the announcement of this year's finalists in the annual SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment.

This year's finalists will be honored and winners revealed during a gala ceremony at the historic Driskill Hotel in Austin, TX, on September 28. Each winning entry will receive $1,000 and a trophy, at this spotlight event leading off SEJ's 15th Annual Conference.

Each year SEJ honors the best in environmental reporting in nine print, broadcast and online categories.

Judging panels consisting of accomplished journalists and journalism educators selected the 27 finalists from 240 entries.

This year's finalists, listed alphabetically by publication in each category, are:

Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, Print:
* "In Harm's Way" - Houston Chronicle. Dina Cappiello, Dan Feldstein.
* "Environmental Politics" - Los Angeles Times. Tom Hamburger, Alan
C. Miller & Julie Cart.
* "Unnatural Disasters" - The San Bernardino Sun. George Watson, Guy
McCarthy.

Outstanding Beat Reporting, Print:
* The Baltimore Sun - Tom Pelton
* The Philadelphia Inquirer - Tom Avril
* The Seattle Times - Craig Welch

Outstanding Explanatory Reporting, Print:
* "Environmental Politics: New Angles" - High Country News. Ray Ring.
* "Changing All the Rules" - New York Times Magazine. Bruce Barcott.
* "Global Climate Change" - National Geographic Magazine. Dennis R.
Dimick, Peter Essick, Lynn Addison, David Whitmore, Jeff Osborn, Tim
Appenzeller, Daniel Glick, Fen Montaigne, Virginia Morrell.

Outstanding Online Reporting:
* "Gimme Shelter (From Taxes)" and other stories - The Center for
Public Integrity. Bob Williams, Kevin Bogardus, Daniel Lathrop,
Alexander Cohen, Aron Pilhofer.
* "PBDEs and the Environmental Intervention Time Lag" - Environmental
Science & Technology Online. Kellyn Betts.
* "Radon in Schools: A Lesson to Learn" - Dispatch.com. Roger McCoy,
Jon Schwantes, Gerald Tebben, Joel Chow.

Outstanding Radio Reporting, Large Market:
* "Climate of Uncertainty" - American Radio Works. Daniel Grossman
* Beat Reporting - Great Lakes Radio Consortium. Rebecca M. Williams
* "Carbon Black" - NPR Living on Earth. Vicki Monks

Outstanding Radio Reporting, Small Market:
* "Living Without: Water in a Dry Land" - KNAU Arizona Public Radio.
Sadie Babits.
* "Controlling Cormorants in Lake Champlain" and other stories -
Vermont Public Radio. John A. Dillon.
* "Environmental Issues in the Great Lakes Region" - WKAR, East Lansing,
Mich. Erin Toner.

Outstanding Small Market Reporting, Print:
* "Mud Wrestling" - Fort Worth Weekly. Wendy Lyons Sunshine.
* "Jeremiad for Belarus" - Orion. Hope Burwell.
* "China's Computer Wasteland" - The Progressive. Benjamin Joffe-Walt.

Outstanding Television Reporting, Large Market:
* "Water Thieves" - KCNC-TV, Denver. Carisa Scott, Brian Maass, Kevin
Hartfield.
* "Clearing the Air" - NBC News. Jeffrey Cooperman
* "Dying to Breathe" and other stories - WTAE-TV, Oakmont, Pa. Jim
Parsons, Kendall Cross, Michael Lazorko.

Outstanding Television Reporting, Small Market:
* "Quest: Aquaculture, Down on the Salmon Farm" - Maine Public
Broadcasting. Barbara Noyes Pulling, Michael McDade, Calem Crosby.
* "Airport Pollution" - WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, Ohio. Hagit Limor, Anthony
Mirones, Bob Morford.
* "Water Watch" - WPBN/WTOM, Traverse City, Mich. Marc Schollett.

The Society of Environmental Journalists is an association of more than 1400 journalists, educators and students. SEJ's mission is to advance public understanding of environmental issues by improving the quality, accuracy and visibility of environmental reporting.

SEJ provides critical support to journalists in all forms of news media in their efforts to cover complex issues of the environment. Through combined efforts of board, staff, members, and appropriate partners, SEJ offers unique educational programs and services for working journalists, educators and students. SEJ programs include annual conferences; Freedom of Information Watchdog Project; Diversity Program daily EJToday news service; quarterly SEJournal; weekly TipSheet, and other publications; SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment; members-only listservs; mentoring program; website-based resources; and a lively membership network of journalists and academics. Introductory dues for journalists, students and educators are only $20. Non- journalists are invited to subscribe to SEJournal and attend the Annual Conference.

For more information about SEJ, please visit http://www.sej.org/ , phone (215) 884.8174 or email sej@sej.org

Source: Society of Environmental Journalists

CONTACT: Beth Parke, Executive Director of Society of Environmental
Journalists, +1-215-884-8174

Web site: http://www.sej.org/

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