Our 1,100+ alumni are freelancers, newsroom employees, public radio reporters, TV anchors, photographers, videographers, and just about every other kind of journalist out there. Their work appears in outlets large and small, all over North America and beyond. Here's just a tiny sampling of some of the work they've produced following our Institutes.
Recent Featured Alumni Stories
Read, hear and see some stand-out post-institute reporting from our alumni:
In California, women learn how to protect their ancestral lands with fire - Deb Krol, Arizona Republic
Remote tribe seeks co-management of marine resources - Joaqlin Estus, Indian Country Today
The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of - Neel Dhanesha, Vox
Rising Tides, Sinking Future special report from McClatchy newspapers, supported by the Pulitzer Center - Sammy Fretwell, Adam Wagner, and Anita Lee
Once-ignored Indigenous knowledge of nature now shaping science - Mathew Holding Eagle III, Minnesota Public Radio
Coastal tribes in Oregon hope to bring sea otters back to their community - Amy Mayer, NPR
‘No Fish Means No Food’: How Yurok Women Are Fighting For Their Tribe’s Health - Lucy Sherriff, The Guardian/The Fuller Project
The Long, Slow Drowning of the New Jersey Shore - Andrew Lewis, New York Times Magazine
How these neighbors use fire to revitalize their communities, and land - Andria Hautamaki, NPR
What It’s Like to Fight a Megafire - Maura O’Connor, The New Yorker
Four-Part Climate Change Series on North Carolina’s Outer Banks - Adam Wagner, The News & Observer
Environmental Racism Runs Deeper than Memphis’ Water Source - Ashli Blow, Climate Conscious
Historic Black community fights military project on Coast land fouled by arsenic, lead - Anita Lee, Sun Herald
The Coal Plant Next Door - Max Blau, ProPublica
Trump's environment agency seems to be at war with the environment, say ex-officials - Emily Holden, The Guardian
Can a solar farm on an old landfill site improve life for a Houston community? - Nushin Huq, Texas Climate News
Why Sprawl Could Be The Next Big Climate Change Battle - Lauren Sommer, NPR
Choosing A Place To Retire? Factor In Climate Change - Craig Miller, Forbes
Armored homes, rising water: What to know about Great Lakes flood patterns - Carrie Smith, Democrat and Chronicle
California’s sequoias and redwoods can survive climate change—if we help them - Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic
Heat, wind and a cruel twist of nature: inside Oregon's nightmarish wildfire season - Lee van der Voo, The Guardian
'Living with fire' may lead to less destructive wildfires, say Indigenous land stewards - Deb Krol, Arizona Republic
Invasive Asian carp to get public makeover, new name in effort to draw eaters - Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press
One Solution to the Carp Apocalypse: Just Eat Them - Susan Cosier, Chicago Magazine
Smokey Bear Is 75. Is It Time For Him To Retire? - Chris D’Angelo, HuffPost
More Wildfires Bring Focus On How All That Smoke May Harm Firefighters - Jes Burns, NPR
Fighting fire with fire: Should California burn its forests to protect against catastrophe? - Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee
We Can Make California Wildfires Less Horrific. Will We? (seven-part series) - Danielle Venton, KQED
Prairie Fires Fuel Community Health Concerns - Katelyn Newman, U.S. News & World Report
Wildfires, Invasive Grass Threaten Future of Western Sagebrush - Rebecca Kern, Bloomberg Environment
How bad is all that wildfire smoke to our long-term health? ‘Frankly, we don’t really know’ - Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times
Big river, deep trouble: Can the Mighty Mississippi’s crisis be averted? - Leyland Cecco, The Globe and Mail
Unnatural wonder: A journey into the heart of a river forever changed by human hands - Brandon Loomis, Arizona Republic
When In Drought: States Take On Urgent Negotiations To Avoid Colorado River Crisis - Luke Runyon, KUNC
Watching Over the Land in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest - Irina Zhorov, WHYY
First Nations Fight to Protect the Rare Spirit Bear from Hunters - Krista Langlois, National Geographic
The Ethanol Effect by David Biello and Aaron Martin, PBS
Saving America's Broken Prairie by David Unger, Undark
The Detective of Northern Oddities by Chris Solomon, Outside Magazine (supported by an IJNR Field Reporting Award)
Choking To Death in Detroit by Zoe Schlanger, Newsweek
The Enormous Threat to America's Last Grasslands, by Ryan Schuessler, The Washington Post
Will the Sage Grouse Win the West? by Jacques Leslie, The New Yorker
The Great Burning: How Wildfires are Threatening the West by Osha Gray Davidson, Rolling Stone
Rising Seas: Will the Outer Banks Survive? by Sara Peach, National Geographic
Fight to Save the Sage Grouse Finds Friends in All Corners of the West by Nathan Rott, NPR
On the Front Lines of Wisconsin's Big-Money Small-Town Iron Mine War by Lois Parshley, Vice
The Last, Best Refuge for North America's Bees by Lindsey Konkel, National Geographic
For additional stories, please see individual post-institute pages.
And you can find many dozens of archived stories here.