2021 #SEJAwards Ceremony and Panel Discussion
October 20, 2021 | 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET | Virtual
Journalists slog through workdays, late nights and weekends to not only get stories, but to get them right. Watch all that effort pay off at the 2021 #SEJAwards Ceremony and Panel Discussion. Join us on Wednesday, October 20, at 1:00 p.m. ET as we gather virtually to honor the best-of-the-best in environmental journalism, including the live announcement of the winner of the Nina Mason Pulliam Award and $10,000 cash prize, selected from the first-place winners in all categories.
Join us to hear the best environmental journalists in the country share what it takes to cover the biggest story on the planet and what lies ahead for the future of this critical beat.
Moderators:
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Sadie Babits, Professor of Practice, Sustainability Director at ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication; President, Society of Environmental Journalists Board of Directors
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Luke Runyon, Ted Scripps Environmental Journalism Fellow; Society of Environmental Journalists Board Member
Panelists:
David Stolberg Meritorious Service Award
The David Stolberg Meritorious Service Award is presented by SEJ each year to honor exceptional volunteer work by a member. The Award was created by the SEJ board in 1998 and named for SEJ’s founder David Stolberg. Volunteers define the heart and soul of SEJ, and they expand the group’s reach and significance in ways that are not easily measured. Many thanks to our 2020 and 2021 winners for their exemplary service to SEJ!
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2021 Winner:
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2021 First-Place Award Winners |
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First Place
"Toxic Legacy" by Catherine Herridge for CBS News
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First Place
"Dicamba on Trial" by Johnathan Hettinger (reporter), Pam Dempsey, Sky Chadde and Brant Houston (editors) for Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
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© Photo: Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting |
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First Place
"Environmental Safeguards" by Juliet Eilperin, Brady Dennis and John Muyskens for The Washington Post
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The closed Kanawha River coal-fired power plant located in Hansford, W.Va., is seen in 2020.
© Photo: Stacy Kranitz/The Washington Post
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First Place
"Environmental Health: California's Air, Water and Wildfires" by Rachel Becker for CalMatters
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An oil well pumps next to a newly constructed neighborhood near Signal Hill in Long Beach, California on Friday, April 24,2020 © Photo: Jim Ruymen, UPI/Alamy Live News |
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First Place
"Where Will Everyone Go? How Climate Refugees Might Move Across International Borders" by Abrahm Lustgarten, Al Shaw, Meredith Kohut, Lucas Waldron and Sergey Ponomarev for ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine
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First Place
"Virginia's Clean Energy Transition" by Sarah Vogelsong for Virginia Mercury
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Construction of offshore wind turbines. © Photo: Ørsted |
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First Place
"Paradise Lost: Hawaii's Disappearing Beaches" by Sophie Cocke and Ash Ngu for Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica
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First Place
"The Parrot King" by Brendan Borrell for Audubon Magazine
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Illustration: Jason Holley |
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"In Public Housing, a Battle Against Mold and Rising Seas" by Lili Pike, New York University, published by Undark
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Mold grows on the walls of Brandy Cabrera’s bathroom. Cabrera is one of hundreds of tenants in Brooklyn’s Red Hook Houses that have sued the New York City Housing Authority due to leaks and mold. Visual: Lili Pike |
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First Place
"Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains" by Kerri Arsenault, published by Macmillan Publishers
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