Nov 2 - Cheryl Hogue, Society of Environmental Journalists, and Chemical & Engineering News

Covering the Story of the Century: Reporting on the Environment

Climate change, dubbed the "story of the century," has raised the stature of reporting on the environment. This coverage is helping shape public debate over energy, economics, and the future of our world.
Find out how environmental journalism evolved, the broad issues it encompasses, and how reporters assigned to business, politics, health, agriculture, and even entertainment end up covering environmental issues.

Cheryl Hogue is vice president of the Society of Environmental Journalists. She has covered national environmental policy developments from Washington, D.C., since 1987. She reports for Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of a major scientific organization, the American Chemical Society. Her first environmental reporting was a series on the health of the Chesapeake Bay for The Daily Banner on Maryland's Eastern Shore. After a stint at the now-defunct Montgomery Journal in Rockville, Md., she moved to the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., gaining a dozen years of experience covering Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She reported daily from the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the negotiations on 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change. She holds an M.S. in environmental sciences and policy from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in biology from the College of William & Mary.

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