Meet our ‘Covering the Green Economy’ fellows

Twenty-one outstanding business and environmental journalists have won fellowships to attend the “Covering the Green Economy Seminar” presented by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism from June 28-30 in Phoenix.

Journalists from around the country and Canada were chosen from more than 120 applicants to attend the seminar at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, where the Reynolds Center is headquartered. The fellows include reporters and editors from print, online, television and radio outlets.

This three-day specialized reporting institute, combined with two follow-up Webinars, is funded by a generous grant from the McCormick Foundation. The all-expenses-paid fellowships for attendees are valued at more than $2,000 each.

Attendees will learn to recognize “greenwashing,” track federal stimulus dollars designed to create green jobs, and answer consumers’ most frequently asked questions about leading environmentally sustainable lives. Check out the tentative agenda.

Top reporters and pioneering academics, including best-selling author Jeff Goodell, Russ Choma of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, 2009 Pulitzer finalist Susanne Rust and Pulitzer winner Irene Virag will headline the schedule of speakers for the seminar.

Throughout the seminar, the Reynolds Center will have live coverage of the event, including blogs, videos and session materials on its website, BusinessJournalism.org. Goodell’s keynote speech will be live-streamed at 10:30 a.m. PDT on June 29.

Participants also will collaborate and learn online through a new website devoted to coverage of the green economy, which will be open to the public at the conclusion of the seminar.

“We are thrilled to be hosting this accomplished group of journalists for a seminar packed with authoritative presenters,” said Linda Austin, executive director of the Reynolds Center.

The “Covering the Green Economy” fellows are:

• Erin Ailworth, business reporter, The Boston Globe
• Jeff Burnside, special projects reporter, WTVJ-NBC 6 (Miami)
• Mike Cote, editor, ColoradoBiz magazine (Greenwood Village, Colo.)
• John Daley, reporter, KSL-TV (Salt Lake City)
• Michelle Dunlop, aerospace reporter, The Daily Herald (Everett, Wash.)
• Steve Everly, business reporter, The Kansas City Star
• Adriene Hill, sustainability reporter, American Public Media
• Leoneda Inge, changing economy reporter, WUNC radio (Durham, N.C.)
• Martin LaMonica, senior writer, CNET News (Cambridge, Mass.)
• Jori Lewis, radio and magazine freelance journalist (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
• Brentin Mock, freelance reporter, The Lens (New Orleans)
• Patrick O’Grady, reporter, Phoenix Business Journal
• Erik Ortiz, business reporter, The Press of Atlantic City
• David Poulson, editor, Great Lakes Echo, and associate director, Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism (East Lansing, Mich.)
• Asher Price, environmental reporter, Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
• Noaki Schwartz, environmental reporter, The Associated Press (Los Angeles)
• Kate Sheppard, environmental reporter, Mother Jones magazine (Washington)
• Susan Stabley, reporter, Charlotte Business Journal
• Kristi Swartz, breaking news reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Carla Tonelli, green business editor, Reuters.com (Toronto)
• Alexandre Touchette, reporter, CBC/Radio-Canada (Montreal)

About the Author

Kelly is the Reynolds Center's Senior Online Producer. She has worked as a reporter for several newspapers, most recently The Arizona Republic, and has been an adjunct professor at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and holds a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from West Virginia University. Kelly also was a fellow at The Poynter Institute and a contributing writer for "Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss & Hope."