Fellows at Work: Native Seeds, Mother Trees, Mystery Orcas and more
Fellows & Grantees at Work
Inside the Movement to Grow More Native Seeds—and Why It Matters More Than Ever Sarah Gilman, Audubon Magazine (2017 Great Bear Institute)
Countries are negotiating rules to mine the deep sea. The U.S. is pushing ahead alone Lauren Sommer, NPR (2017 Upper Colorado River Institute)
Mystery orcas return to Seattle area John Ryan, KUOW (2019 Bristol Bay Institute)
Data center tour: Janesville a stop in journalists' statewide look at emerging issue Kylie Balk-Yaatenen (2026 Data Center Workshop)
Legislation Aims to Protect Floridians From Data Center Costs, but Will It? Amy Green, Inside Climate News (2026 Data Center Workshop)
Toxic Tides and Broken Promises in Papua New Guinea Rachel Ramirez, The Confluence (2025 Federal Funding Workshop)
Illinois Is Taking a Close Look at the Potential Effects of the Data Center Boom Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder (2026 Big Data, Great Lakes Workshop)
No one wanted to redevelop this polluted property. Then came AI. Miranda Willson, E&E News/POLITICO (2026 Big Data, Great Lakes Workshop)
The fight over Illinois’s data center boom is coming to a head Siri Chilukuri, Chicago Reader (2020 Gulf Coast Institute)
She Found the Mother Tree Erica Gies, Psyche (2017 Great Bear Institute)
Partners in Protection Serena Renner, Canadian Geographic (2024 IPCA Grantee)
Opportunities, Announcements & Accolades
Intermountain West Joint Venture is hosting an Invasive Annual Grass workshop for journalists.
Covering Climate Now is accepting submissions for its journalism awards.
Grist is hiring a reporter.
The Guardian is hiring a climate justice reporter.
Mongabay is hiring a contributing editor.
Climate Central is hiring a writer and associate producer.
NLGJA is accepting applications for its student journalism training project.
The Center for Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder is accepting applications for the position of assistant director.
High Country News is hiring a partnerships editor.
NYU Stern is accepting proposals for its climate economics journalism fellowship.
The Mountain State Spotlight is hiring an environment and energy reporter.
The Indigenous Journalists Association is accepting submissions for its annual media awards.
The Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference is accepting applications.
The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk is hiring an assistant editorial director.
Magic Canoe is hiring contributing writers.
Alumni Monica Samayoa and Tony Schick (both at Oregon Public Broadcasting) were awarded the Goldsmith Prize for Explanatory Reporting from the Shorenstein Center.
Serena Renner’s IJNR grant-supported story Welcome to the Great Bear Sea has been nominated for a 2026 One World Media Award.
Alumni Myriam Vidal Valero and Daniel Ackerman have been named 2026-27 Fellows at the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT.
Congratulations to all of this year’s SEJ award winners, including IJNR alumni and grantees: Mark Olalde, Gabrielle Canon, Lisa Song, Keerti Gopal, Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Alessandra Bergamin, Olga Loginova, Lester Graham, Katherine Bagley, Michael Stoll, Mehr Sher, Krista Langlois, Chloe Williams, Jake Bolster, Zoë Schlanger, Jonathan Mingle