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Improving Coverage of the Environment and Community Forestry in Mexico
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| REMPA members at their first conference in Veracru |
Environmental issues get scant and generally superficial coverage in Mexican news media, and this hampers the efforts of civil society to combat pollution, habitat degradation and deforestation.
ICFJ created a program to help Mexican journalists build up their environmental reporting skills in general and their coverage of community forestry in particular. Working with partner organization, the Mexican non-profit organization Periodismo para élevar la Conciencia Ecológica (PECE), ICFJ conducted training, held news conferences and produced background materials on community forestry. And with assistance from PECE and the United States-based Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), we are helping la Red Mexicana de Periodistas Ambientales (REMPA), a loose network of Mexican journalists, to grow into an association that shares skills, information, contacts, common interests and a passion for environmental issues. ICFJ is helping this group plan and organize its first conference in mid-2008 following a November organizational forum in Veracruz. These programs will raise public awareness of environmental issues, especially forestry, through the work of better-trained journalists.
Program Highlights
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 El 27 de mayo pasado, en Boca del Río, Veracruz, reporteros y académicos de siete estados formaron la Red Mexicana de Periodistas Ambientales, en respuesta a inquietudes recogidas en diferentes foros sobre el ambiente.
Desde el 2004 la red había estado trabajando, aunque de manera informal y sin recurso alguno, en la tarea de constituirse como asociación civil sin afán de lucro (trámite que ya se realizó, con fecha del 20 de julio de 2007, en la ciudad de León, Guanajuato).
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Environment Program Participant Starts Impact Blog
Jesus Manuel Angulo began writing a blog about global-warming and other environmental issues after attending the Sustainable DeveloWorkshop in March 2007.
Jesus adds, "I should thank Rob Taylor, director of Environment programs at ICFJ; Talli Nauman, founder and co-director of Journalism to Raise Environmental Awareness and to Jim Detjen, director of Michigan State University's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. They were for my source of deep inspiration and interest in environment."
Immigration Participant Awarded NAHJ Journalism Award
Isabel C. Morales
was awarded the Print – Breaking News award in the 2007 NAHJ Journalism Awards for her entry “Immigration Protest”.
Isabel will be recognized on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at the 22nd Annual Noche de Triunfos Journalism Awards Gala at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC.
Congrats Isabel!
Former Scripps Fellow Awarded Fulbright
Former Scripps Ethics program participant Paúl Mena wins Fulbright Fellowship to study at the University of South Florida, where he plans to do research on journalism ethics and training for journalists.
"As I said in the essay for the (Fulbright) application form, the ethics course I took at ICFJ in 2003 changed the way I was doing my profession," Paúl says.
Immigration Blog
Read about how immigration program participants are putting lessons learned during the April 15-24 to work at their home newsrooms on their blog at: icfj.typepad.com.
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For more information contact:
Rob Taylor, Director
Science & Environmental Programs
1616 H St., NW, Third Floor
Washington, DC 20006 USA
Phone (202) 349-7601
Fax (202) 737-0530
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