Building a Permanent Home for Environmental Journalism

2017 Annual Report

insideclimatenews.org About InsideClimate News Bringing Back Journalism InsideClimate News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning non-profit, non-partisan news organization that provides essential reporting and analysis on climate, energy and the environment for That’s Gone Missing the public and decision-makers. We serve as watchdogs of government, industry and advocacy groups and hold them accountable for their policies and actions. Already one of the largest environment newsrooms in the country, ICN is committed to establishing a Dear Reader, permanent national reporting network, training the next generation of journalists, and strengthening the practice of environmental journalism. InsideClimate News celebrated its 10th anniversary last November, and our second decade is already off to an auspicious start with good news reaching us two times over.

First, both the Scripps Howard Awards and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers ICN by the Numbers awarded honors to our two biggest bodies of work from 2017—Finding Middle Ground and Choke as of December 31, 2017 Hold, both highlighted in this annual report—as well as two other ICN investigations.

Second, the Grantham Foundation gave us confirmation that it will be providing a major grant to help us kick-start the establishment of a national environment reporting network. 84.9K Twitter followers Why do we want to build this national network? Because the ecosystem of environmental journalism 74,165 has been hollowed out in most local markets. Our newsroom may provide safe harbor for talented Facebook likes environmental journalists, but they are in short supply at news outlets in the vast middle of the 22,936 2,000+ country. A dangerous silence has descended on too many communities about profound changes subscribers 112,574 individual donors afflicting our natural world. newsletter impressions per week We see it as part of our mission to revive and embolden environmental journalism so it can spark civic discussion where it’s most needed—in the backyards and main streets of everyday America. We have witnessed a great hunger for these conversations that have gone missing in the carnage Steady Growth in Traffic of the polarization of recent years. 2011-2017 4M 3,701,876 Our non-profit environmental newsroom is the biggest of its kind in the nation. We make the claim proudly even if we have only 15 people. We consistently punch above our weight. We went from start-up to a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in five years, and from there doubled our staff 2,892,873 while journalism was going through a devastating financial crisis. Ours is an improbable story, 3M and an important chapter in the coming of age of non-profit journalism.

2,199,897 Still, both Earth’s climate and American journalism are facing a long season of reckoning ahead. The two crises at the heart of ICN’s concerns are in worse condition than when we started Pulitzer 2M win publishing in 2007. American leadership on climate solutions has been thrown into reverse, and the central role of a free press in American democracy is under attack. Operators, foreign and domestic, are running amok undermining the validity of facts and rational discourse.

1M It only means that our work at ICN is as important as ever. It’s why, as we continue to produce our journalism and build our reporting network, we are also launching a summer journalism program for high school students. Training the next generation of environmental reporters is part of our mission, too, as we embark on our next decade of journalism in the public interest. 0 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 USERS SESSIONS PAGE VIEWS

David Sassoon Founder and Publisher, InsideClimate News

1 How We Are Working to Revive Board of Directors Environmental Journalism InsideClimate News is a non-profit incorporated in the state of New York and a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization operating with IRS approval as a public charity. It is governed As ICN has grown over the last 10 years into one of the nation’s largest environmental by a Board of Directors and guided by the best practices of non-profit management. newsrooms, we have simultaneously witnessed environmental journalism all but vanish from small, trusted outlets in the nation’s interior. We are now continuing our work to revive environmental journalism by developing a national environment reporting network and training the next generation of environment reporters. Establishing a National Reporting Network…

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2 3 2018 SCRIPPS HOWARD AWARD FINALIST

2007-2017 Finding Middle Ground Ten Years of Journalism Conversations across America about Climate Change ICN began an important search for an elusive geography in 2017: the middle How ICN became the largest non-profit ground on climate change. Harsh politics and fiercely guarded values made it a risky environmental newsroom in the nation assignment, but writer Meera Subramanian’s talent and humanity provoked revealing conversations across America’s heartland. Her lyrical and healing body of work captures the complicated connections that Americans have to the places that sustain them—and just how tangled our notions around climate change can be. • ICN founded2007 by David Sassoon & Stacy • The New York2013 Times dismantles its • Susan White2015 steps down, Stacy Feldman Feldman with funding of $150,000 from the environment desk steps in as executive editor Rockefeller Brothers Fund In Georgia’s Peach Orchards, • Only about a dozen environment reporters • Neela Banerjee joins ICN as senior • The original website launches as a fiscally remain at top 5 U.S. newspapers investigative reporter Warm Winters Raise Specter of sponsored project of Public Interest Projects (now Neo Philanthropy) • Jack Cushman joins ICN • Big Oil & Bad Air wins National Press Climate Change Foundation energy writing award and seven • ICN wins Pulitzer Prize for National • 57,000 journalists are working at daily additional awards from other juries 100 miles newspapers around the country Reporting for The Dilbit Disaster: Inside the Musella, GA. Biggest Oil Spill You’ve Never Heard Of • ICN relaunches its website Atlanta Crawford County 2016 population: 1,409 • McClatchy enters into agreement to • ICN publishes Exxon: The Road Not Taken publish ICN content Macon • 33,000 journalists are left working at daily Savannah • ICN makes2008 top 10 list of climate sites ranked • ICN publishes Bloomberg’s Hidden Legacy: newspapers around the country GEORGIA by Technorati Climate Change and the Future of New York City • Financial crisis in journalism starts to shut down or shrink news outlets TING TEN A Y R E • Grantham Foundation2016 provides a five-year B Seeing God’s Hand in the Deadly E A “What was advanced yesterday is no longer advanced today,” James Beall said. L R $1.5 million grant to ICN E S Floods, Yet Wondering about He sees wind power and its continuing advancements as the future. C • Exxon: The Road Not Taken is a finalist for • 47,000 journalists2009 are left working at daily the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and wins Climate Change newspapers around the country ten other awards In West Texas Where Wind Power White Sulphur Springs, • Reuters begins publishing ICN stories • ICN wins EPPY award for best web site W. VA. Means Jobs, Climate Talk Is Columbus during Copenhagen climate talks redesign/relaunch WEST Greenbrier County Beside the Point VIRGINIA 2016 population (estimate): 2,420 • Norman Pearlstine, Jennifer 8. Lee and Ted Washington D.C. Charleston Loewenthal join the board of directors 150 miles 2 Sweetwater, Texas 007 2017 Roanoke - • ICN launches its membership program, Lubbock Nolan County • Reuters enters2010 into formal agreement to the ICN Circle 2016 population (estimate): 10,755 publish ICN content Dallas 100 miles Ft. Worth • 42,000 journalists are left working at daily TEXAS newspapers around the country • ICN detaches2014 from its fiscal sponsor and becomes its own 501(c) (3) Austin • Larry Rodman becomes first chair of the • ICN publishes2017 Choke Hold: The Fossil Fuel San Antonio board of directors, which includes Michael Industry’s Fight against Climate Policy, Science and Clean Energy • Susan White2011 becomes executive editor Northrop, Susan Kish and Simon Li As Snow Disappears, A Family of • ICN publishes: • ICN publishes Finding Middle Ground: • ICN grows its full-time staff to four people Conversations Across America About Climate Dogsled Racers in Wisconsin Can’t Keystone and Beyond: Tar Sands and the Change National Interest in the Era of Climate Agree Why Change • ICN launches Clean Economy Weekly newsletter 100 miles Big Oil & Bad Air on the Texas Prairie in • Bloomberg2012 News enters into agreement • Beth Daley, Stacy Morford and Ricardo Gleason, Wis. to publish ICN content collaboration with the Center for Public Lincoln County Integrity and The Weather Channel Sandoval-Palos join ICN to fill senior posts 2010 population (estimate): 2,010 • Lisa Song, David Hasemyer and Elizabeth Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World • ICN expands its full-time staff to 15 people WISCONSIN McGowan cover the Kalamazoo oil spill and Green Bay pipeline safety in a project called The Dilbit • ICN’s annual budget reaches nearly • ICN’s annual budget reaches $1.8 million Disaster Madison Milwaukee $1 million • ICN celebrates its 10th anniversary at Time While Mel Omernick sees the climate changing around her, her father, • ICN’s annual budget crosses $500,000 Inc. headquarters Ron Behm, is skeptical of any human role in climate change and leans on • National Public Radio reduces its counter-arguments that scientists say aren't major drivers of the changes. environment team to one reporter • 37,000 journalists are left working at daily newspapers around the country

4 5 Our Daily Beats The Arctic Clean Energy Elon Musk: The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. 2017 marked a pivotal point in the transition ICN’s Sabrina Shankman—the Lower 48’s only full-time to a clean economy as the costs of solar and Tesla Could Help Arctic reporter we know of—is keeping an eagle eye on wind power declined so greatly they have Puerto Rico some of the most powerful climate pollutants, and polluters, become competitive with fossil fuel in this fragile, melting region at the top of the planet. generation. ICN is closely covering this beat. Power Up Again We published 75 stories on the subject last with Solar year and launched Clean Economy Weekly to give readers an authoritative round-up of Microgrids POPULAR STORIES each week’s national clean energy news. Alaska’s Bering Sea Lost a Third Polar Bears Wearing Cameras POPULAR STORIES 24-Hour Solar Energy: of Its Ice in Just 8 Days Molten Salt Makes it and Fitbits Reveal an Arctic America’s First Offshore Wind Energy Struggle for Survival Possible, and Prices Are Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Faces Makes Landfall in Rhode Island Falling Fast New Drilling Risk from Congress After the Hurricane, Solar Kept Florida Court Sides with Arctic Seals Losing Homes and a City’s Traffic Light Sea Ice Habitat to Climate Change Running As Hilcorp Plans to Drill in Arctic Solar Boom in Trump Country: It’s Waters, a Troubling Trail of Violations about Economics and Energy Surfaces Independence Trump Administration Approves How New York is Building the Its First Offshore Drilling Plan Renewable Energy Grid of the Future

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6 7 With Bare Knuckles and YEAR-LONG INVESTIGATION Big Dollars, Exxon Fights Climate Denial: The Long Campaign Climate Probe to a Legal The campaign of climate denial has been funded by hundreds of millions of dollars Choke Hold from fossil fuel interests. It is one of the largest, longest and most consequential Stalemate misinformation efforts ever mounted against accepted science. The campaign has The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Fight Against confused public opinion, captured the allegiance of a major political party, and forestalled passage of laws and regulations to address the global environmental Climate Policy, Science and Clean Energy crisis caused by the burning of coal, oil and gas.

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2 01 HERITAGE How Federal Giveaways to 0s FOUNDATION Big Coal Leave Ranchers and Taxpayers Out in the Cold PRESENT President Trump 2017 Billions of gallons of water have been lost across the Powder River Basin from coal mining. L.J. Turner sued the state unsuccessfully over the loss of his water. Credit: Anna Belle Peevey Research by NEELA BANERJEE / InsideClimate News PAUL HORN / InsideClimate News

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8 9 Awards ICN Staff Last year we welcomed six new full-time staffers to ICN—our graphic artist, director of strategic ICN reporters have won many of the most prestigious awards in journalism conferred development, audience engagement director, senior editor of investigations and two veteran reporters. by juries of our peers. Since 2012, our news outlet has won 36 national and regional awards and recognitions, including the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. They provide unimpeachable validation for the value and importance of non-profit news in our evolving media landscape. David Sassoon Founder, Publisher

David Hasemyer Reporter

Stacy Feldman Co-Founder, Executive Editor

The Pulitzer Prize Edgar Allen Poe Award Marianne Lavelle Winner, 2013 Politics Reporter Finalist, 2016 John H. Cushman, Jr. Managing Editor

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting Sabrina Shankman Reporter, Producer Stacy Morford Senior Editor

Phil McKenna Reporter Beth Daley Director of Strategic Development

Nicholas Kusnetz Reporter Jessica Lee Audience Engagement Editor

Georgina Gustin Reporter Robert F. Kennedy Ricardo Sandoval Palos Journalism Award Investigations Editor

Paul Horn Graphics Editor Neela Banerjee The Izzy Award Knight-Risser Prize Senior Correspondent

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