Environmental Journalism

Covering Urban Sprawl: Rethinking the American Dream

Suburban expansion, urban sprawl, growth management, smart growth, new urbanism: these are the terms currently used to describe what is happening in many communities across the U.S. No matter what we call it, expanding cities spawn a host of critical issues affecting everyone in your viewing and listening audience.

Environmental Hormones: Threats to Health & Reproduction?

One of the fastest growing and highly controversial areas of environmental science involves the impacts of certain chemicals in the environment on the human endocrine system. The purpose of this guide is to help explain these issues and what impacts, if any, these environmental hormones have on us. This guide is only a starting place; it does not have all the answers, but it does have key story ideas, contacts, a glossary and background information to point you in the right direction.

The Environment and Children's Health

Children are more susceptible than adults to the effects of a toxic environment. This guide includes information on the environmental triggers of childhood illnesses from asthma to cancer to obesity, a starter kit of story ideas, and a comprehensive list of sources for additional information.

Environmental Journalism Center

To help reporters, producers and news directors meet this challenge, RTNDF created the Environmental Journalism Center in 1991. The goal of the Center is to accurately inform reporters about environmental, science and health issues and to help you cover them in informed and compelling ways.

Best Practices in Environmental Journalism

This video has been discontinued. Tips and advice from the journalists involved are available here.

Childhood Cancer: Covering this Scientific Mystery

Childhood Cancer: Covering this Scientific Mystery (PDF format, 137K)
This guide provides basic facts about childhood cancer: principal forms, causes, scientific studies and initiatives. It includes story ideas, a glossary, and sources for additional information and B-roll.