Science Editing Webinar Series Covering Climate and the Environment On-Demand

Fen Montaigne began his journalism career at the Houma Courier, a small daily in Louisiana’s Cajun country. He went on to spend 20 years as a newspaper reporter, 15 of them at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He was the Moscow correspondent during the collapse of the Soviet Union and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He spent a dozen years working as a freelance writer, with articles appearing in National Geographic, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He is the author of several books, including the travel/adventure tale Reeling in Russia, and an account of climate change in Antarctica, Fraser’s Penguins, for which he received a Guggenheim fellowship. He helped launch the magazine Yale Environment 360 in 2008 and is its senior editor.

Replay the “Covering Climate” webinar with Fen.

Lyndsey Gilpin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Southerly. Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and now based in Durham, N.C., she is a reporter and editor who has covered climate change, energy, environmental justice all over the U.S. She is currently a JSK Community Impact Fellow through Stanford University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, High Country News, The Washington Post, Hakai, The Atlantic, Grist, Outside, and more.

Replay the “Covering Climate” webinar with Lindsey.

Neela Banerjee is NPR’s first-ever Supervising Climate Editor, tasked with working across the newsroom to lead the network’s broad climate coverage. Before starting at NPR in April 2020, Neela spent five years as senior correspondent at InsideClimate News, where she led the team that revealed how Exxon had conducted its own ambitious climate research as far back as the mid-1970s. The Exxon project spurred public interest lawsuits, won more than a dozen national journalism awards and was a finalist for 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Reporting. Before ICN, Neela was the energy and environment reporter in the Los Angeles Times’ Washington DC bureau. Prior to that, she was a reporter for The New York Times and had beats as diverse as global energy, the Iraq war and faith in America. She began her journalism career at The Wall Street Journal, where she served mostly as a Russia correspondent. Neela grew up all over the U.S., but mostly in southeast Louisiana, and is a graduate of Yale University.

Replay the “Covering Climate” webinar with Neela.