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What motivates journalists to keep going even though the news is so bleak — both for society and for journalism itself? Join the Center for Environmental Journalism at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 20 while this year’s Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism discuss the role of their craft during these challenging times.

For over two decades, the fellowship program—housed in the College of Media, Communication and Information’s Center for Environmental Journalism—has brought working journalists to campus for a full academic year, providing them with opportunities to expand their knowledge and capacity to report on critical environmental stories.

As Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism, panelists are focusing on these environmental issues:

• Peter Brannen is studying how extreme episodes of climate change in Earth's geological past can inform us about our future.
• Chris Lett is investigating the global ramifications of overfishing and climate change on coastal peoples.
• Stephen R. Miller is investigating climate change adaptation in the arid West.
• Hillary Rosner’s focus is on corridors as tools for wildlife conservation—and on the direct and indirect ways humans have altered the movement of other species.
• Elizabeth Royte is studying environmental law and environmental history.
• David Baron is the panel moderator, a Scripps Fellow in the class of 1998–99.