Building a Permanent Home for Environmental Journalism
2016 Biennial Report
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Dear Reader,
InsideClimate News turns 10 years old in the fall, and this biennial report chronicles the most recent two years, revealing the great distance we’ve come since our founding.
We went from start-up to a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in five years, and from there doubled our staff again while around us journalism was going through a devastating financial crisis. Ours is an improbable story, and an important chapter in the coming of age of non-profit journalism when our society needs it most.
InsideClimate News became a safe harbor for talented environmental journalists with fewer and fewer places left for them to work. We published groundbreaking investigations that had real impact. We won a string of the most prestigious awards in journalism. We watched the steady growth of our traffic and readership and an equally steady growth in our operating budget. And we contributed a beneficial influence to the continued practice of watchdog journalism.
Yet 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 publishing in 2007. American leadership on climate solutions is now being thrown into reverse, and journalism’s central role as a bulwark of democracy is being attacked from the Oval Office itself.
It only means that our work at ICN is more important than ever, and we are laying track to meet the challenges of the decade to come. It’s why we’ve doubled the number of stories we’re producing over the last six months. It’s why we have two investigations underway. It’s why we’re starting to produce features on clean energy and a weekly newsletter on the clean economy. And it’s why we’re entering into many collaborations with multi-media outlets that will get our work on the airwaves and to more people.
That’s not all. We are also developing a program for high school students to train the next generation of environmental reporters, and another program to rebuild environmental journalism in the nation’s heartland – where local news has been hollowed out over the last decade.
Undark magazine, a respected journal of science out of MIT, said InsideClimate News has “dominated U.S. climate journalism.” It’s welcome validation of our first decade of achievement, and we intend to continue setting the pace for the next 10 years and beyond.
David Sassoon Founder and Publisher, InsideClimate News
1 Our Reporting Spans the U.S. and the World
Natural gas Standing Rock leak threatens Reservation vs. endangered Dakota Access Icelandic scientists Russia could be beluga whales Pipeline devise way to U.S. partner in convert CO2 to rock climate inaction Alberta tar sands Dwindling arctic ice threatens polar bears Paris climate accord China holds itself accountable for Government carbon emissions policies affecting Morocco climate and climate Elon Musk environment summit spearheads Great Barrier clean energy Sea level rise Reef copes with on roads and putting unprecedented in homes coastal cities India wants coral bleaching Fracking- at risk help to slash created emissions earthquakes plague Oklahoma Solar power African elephants in takes hold in Tanzania also face Nigeria climate threat Is climate change ruining the wild places in Chile?
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Exxon Relents, Wipes Oil Sands Reserves From Its Books • Researcher’s 1979 Arctic Model Predicted Current Sea Ice Demise, Holds Lessons for Future 2 Our Media Partners InsideClimate News partners with other media organizations to enhance distribution of our work, to collaborate on investigations, and to produce video documentaries. They include:
Study Finds Rise in Methane in Pennsylvania Gas Country • Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release 3 ICN in Public
David Hasemyer Reporter Climate change and the Zika virus David Sassoon Founder and Publisher Climate misinformation talk at Knight Media Learning Seminar
John H. Cushman, Jr. Managing Editor Keystone XL Neela Banerjee Senior Correspondent Interview with ProPublica on how award-winning Exxon work was done
Neela Banerjee Senior Correspondent Exxon: The Road Not Taken interview
Sabrina Shankman Reporter and Producer Intersection of libraries and journalism
Zahra Hirji Reporter Pennsylvania’s court decisions on state pipelines John H. Cushman, Jr. Managing Editor Paris Climate Accord
Phil McKenna Reporter Discussion about Native Americans gather to fight oil pipeline
David Sassoon Founder and Publisher Lecture on whether and how we are Marianne Lavelle living in a propaganda culture Politics Reporter President Trump’s environmental plans
Fracking Has Contaminated Drinking Water, EPA Now Concludes • Standing Rock Leaders Tell Dakota Pipeline Protesters to Leave Protest Camp 4 Corporate Sponsors These sponsors provide financial support to help sustain the groundbreaking environmental journalism of InsideClimate News. As with our philanthropic funders and individual donors, they have no access to our editorial decision-making. To make an inquiry to become a corporate sponsor, please use the contact form at insideclimatenews.org and select “sponsorships” in the category menu.
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Australian Heat Wave Raises Concern for Country’s New, Sizzling Normal • Russia and the U.S. Could Be Partners in Climate Change Inaction 5 Our Awards Our Awards WINNER FINALIST WINNER FINALIST 2016 2015 Exxon: The Road Not Taken Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer, Lisa Song Sabrina Shankman Online Journalism Award Society of Environmental Journalists Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Market Outstanding Feature Story (second place) Society of Environmental Journalists Livingston Awards Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting, Small Market National Reporting John B. Oakes Award Robert F. Kennedy Award Fired: Texas Oil and Gas Regulators Say They Tried to Enforce Rules, Lost Jobs New Media Winner David Hasemyer White House Correspondents’ Association San Diego Press Club Edgar A. Poe Award for news coverage of regional or national importance Daily newspapers and websites, General News Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award (David Hasemyer) Digitial Investigative, Division I (co-winner) In Fracking’s Wake: Open Pits Offer Cheap Disposal for National Press Foundation Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy Writing Fracking Sludge, but Health Worries Mount David Hasemyer, Zahra Hirji Scripps Howard Awards Environmental Reporting San Diego Press Club Daily newspapers and websites, Environment The Izzy Award (David Hasemyer, Zahra Hirji) Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Informational Graphics (Paul Horn) Pulitzer Prize Public Service The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting 2014 EPPY Award Bloomberg’s Hidden Legacy: Climate Change and the Future of New York City Best Redesign/Relaunch with under 1 million unique monthly visitors (for InsideClimate News’ website) Katherine Bagley and Maria Gallucci Deadline Club, NYC Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists Reporting by Independent Digital Media 2015 Big Oil, Bad Air David Hasemyer, Lisa Song, CPI’s Jim Morris and The Weather Channel’s Greg Gilderman
The Knight-Risser Prize (awarded in 2016) Western Environmental Journalism Society of Environmental Journalists (awarded in 2016) 2013 Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting, Large Market The Dilbit Disaster National Press Foundation Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and Dave Hasemyer Thomas L. Stokes Award for Energy Writing Pulitzer Prize Association of Health Care Journalists Award National Reporting Large Investigation Society of Professional Journalists Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Society of Environmental Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Informational Graphics (Paul Horn, Lisa Song) Deadline Club, NYC Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists Reporting by Independent Digital Media John B. Oakes Award Loeb Awards Explanatory Reporting Nation’s First Tar Sands Mine Stirs Water, Environmental Fears Out West Investigative Reporters & Editors Award David Hasemyer Large Multimedia (Lisa Song, David Hasemyer, Susan White, Zahra Hirji, Paul Horn, Lance Rosenfield, Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Pro Chapter Sabrina Shankman, Marcus Stern, John Bolger, Hannah Robbins) Daily Reporting and Writing, Environmental Story Editor & Publisher EPPY Award (awarded in 2014) Best Investigative/Enterprise Feature on a Website
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago • 2016: How Dakota Pipeline Protest Became a Native American Cry for Justice • Wyoming Bill Would All But Outlaw Clean Energy by Preventing Utilities From Using It • Map: The Fracking Boom, State by State 6 7 ICN Staff
David Sassoon Founder and Publisher David Sassoon is the founder and publisher of InsideClimate News. He has been a writer, editor and publisher for 25 years, involved with public interest issues: human rights, cultural preservation, healthcare, education and the environment. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Stacy Feldman John H. Cushman, Jr. Co-Founder and Executive Editor Managing Editor Stacy Feldman is co-founder, executive editor Jack Cushman is an editor and reporter for and occasional reporter for InsideClimate InsideClimate News. Before joining ICN, News. From 2008-2010, she was its energy he worked for 35 years as a writer and reporter and foreign editor, reporting editor in Washington, D.C., principally with extensively on clean energy technologies, the Washington bureau of The New York forestry issues and the United Nations Times. Cushman has written extensively climate change negotiations in 2009 and about energy, the environment, industry 2010. Feldman has a master’s degree in and military affairs, also covering financial international affairs from Columbia and transportation beats as well as editing University. articles. He served on the board of governors of the National Press Club and was a previous president.
Stacy Morford Senior Editor Stacy Morford is the senior editor for ICN Beth Daley and a native of Midwestern farm country. Director of Strategic Development She was a government reporter and Beth Daley works to grow and diversify national editor for the Associated Press for sources of revenue for InsideClimate News. over 10 years, then helped launch ICN as Before joining ICN, she was a reporter for a news site. Before returning to ICN, she 25 years at the Boston Globe and then the worked for the World Bank and Columbia New England Center for Investigative University, observing climate policy Reporting. She has won numerous development from the inside and working journalism awards and was named a with economists and climate scientists as Pulitzer finalist for her climate work. a senior communications officer and digital strategist.
David Hasemyer Reporter Neela Banerjee David Hasemyer co-authored “The Dilbit Senior Correspondent Disaster” which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and co-authored the Neela Banerjee led ICN’s coverage of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist series “Exxon: 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist series “Exxon: The Road Not Taken.” Before joining ICN, The Road Not Taken.” Prior to joining ICN, she spent four years as the energy and Hasemyer had an award-wining tenure environmental reporter for the Los Angeles at The San Diego Union-Tribune as an Times Washington bureau. Banerjee has investigative reporter. also covered global energy and the Iraq War for The New York Times. Banerjee has a degree from Yale and grew up mostly in south Louisiana.
House Science Committee Hearing Renews Battle of Science Vs. Denial • Trump’s EPA Is Removing Climate Change Information From Website 8 Sabrina Shankman Reporter and Producer Sabrina Shankman is a producer and reporter for InsideClimate News. She joined Marianne Lavelle InsideClimate in the fall of 2013, after Politics Reporter helping produce documentaries and Marianne Lavelle is a reporter for interactives for the PBS show “Frontline” InsideClimate News. She has covered since 2010. Prior to working with Frontline, environment, science, law, and business in Shankman reported for ProPublica, The Washington, D.C. for more than two Wall Street Journal and the Associated decades. She has won the Polk Award, the Press. Shankman holds a master’s degree Investigative Editors and Reporters Award, from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of and numerous other honors. Lavelle spent Journalism. four years as online energy news editor and writer at National Geographic. She also has worked at U.S. News and World Report magazine and The National Law Journal. Phil McKenna While there, she led the award-winning Reporter 1992 investigation, “Unequal Protection.” Phil McKenna is a Boston-based reporter for InsideClimate News. Before joining ICN in 2016, he was a freelance writer covering energy and the environment for Georgina Gustin publications including The New York Times, Reporter Smithsonian, Audubon and WIRED. He’s Georgina Gustin is a Washington-based won the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism reporter who has covered food policy, Award and the NASW Science in Society farming and the environment for more than Award. Phil has a master’s degree in science a decade. She started her journalism career writing from the Massachusetts Institute at The Day in New London, Conn., then of Technology. moved to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where she launched the “food beat,” covering agriculture, biotech giant Monsanto and the growing “good food” movement. At CQ Zahra Hirji Roll Call, she covered food, farm and drug Reporter policy and the intersections between federal Zahra Hirji is a catch-all energy and climate regulatory agencies and Congress. Her reporter for InsideClimate News. work has also appeared in The New York Previously, her work has been featured in Times, Washington Post and National a mix of online and print publications, Geographic’s The Plate, among others. including Brown’s alumni magazine, Discovery News and EARTH magazine. She has a master’s degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Paul Horn Technology and a bachelor of arts in Graphics Editor geological sciences from Brown University. Paul Horn has been supporting ICN reporters’ stories with infographics, locators, charts, diagrams and other visuals since 2012. He brings an award-winning, Nicholas Kusnetz 27-year pedigree to the table, featuring Reporter long tenures at the Reno Gazette-Journal, Nicholas Kusnetz is a reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune, Copley InsideClimate News. Previously, he ran the News Service/Creators Syndicate and award-winning Center for Public Integrity’s Infographic World. State Integrity Investigation. He also covered fracking as a reporting fellow at ProPublica and was a 2011 Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism. His work has appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Nation, Fast Company and The New York Times.
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