Twelve journalists have been awarded a 2021 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award in recognition of their efforts to bring environmental news and analysis into the public discourse.
SAN DIEGO, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As fossil fuel dependence continues to shape our geopolitical landscape and climate change becomes a lived reality instead of a hypothetical future outcome, twelve journalists have been awarded a 2021 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award in recognition of their efforts to bring environmental news and analysis into the public discourse, and to elevate our understanding of the connections between complex current events.
Honorees include five repeat winners: Justin Worland of TIME; Rebecca Leber, who writes for Vox, Mother Jones and Grist; Robinson Meyer of The Atlantic; Shannon Osaka of Grist; and Dave Roberts, formerly of Vox and now self-publishing under the Substack Volts.
First-time SEAL Environmental Journalism Award recipients include: David Sheppard of The Financial Times; Dharna Noor, who writes for Earther and The Boston Globe; Hilary Beaumont of The Guardian and Al Jazeera English; Lisa Song, who writes for ProPublica and InsideClimate News; Rachel Ramirez of CNN; Zahra Hirji of Bloomberg, InsideClimate News and BuzzFeed; and Somini Sengupta, who writes for The New York Times and Forbes India.
Of particular interest among this year's winners, SEAL Awards wishes to highlight the work of David Sheppard for his powerful data visualization coupled with reporting that connected the dots between Europe's dependence on Russian oil and gas and the emerging conflict in Ukraine, in articles published several months before Russian tanks rolled across Ukraine's borders. And for the third year running, SEAL Awards is thrilled to feature a journalist who has successfully launched an independent publication. Through his work published in Volts, David Roberts continues to direct his keen analysis to the intersection of climate change, the economy, and social justice using mixed media reporting.
The 2021 SEAL Environmental Journalism Awards were chaired by Hala Kilani, Senior Communications Officer for Climate Action Network International. Ms. Kilani's previous work included serving as a Public Engagement Director at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change during the 18th Session of Parties (COP18) and the Meeting of Parties (CMP8) to the Kyoto Protocol, and she served as the Poverty, Equity and Gender Program Coordinator at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Prior to shifting her focus to environmental activism, Ms. Kilani worked as a journalist herself, and her reporting on the Arab Spring was featured in The Guardian.
Winners were selected based on a panel review of each journalist's work, data-driven analysis of the impact and reach of their articles, and consideration for writers who are bringing fresh perspectives and social relevance to environmental issues. Looking back at 2021, SEAL Awards continues to emphasize and celebrate the professionals who pioneer new media platforms and build partnerships between news outlets and colleagues in the field of environmental journalism.
2021 SEAL ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM AWARD WINNERS
-David Sheppard: The Financial Times
-David Roberts: Volts
-Shannon Osaka: Grist
-Dharna Noor: The Boston Globe, Earther
-Hilary Beaumont: Al Jazeera, The Guardian
-Zahra Hirji: Bloomberg, BuzzFeed, InsideClimate News
-Justin Worland: TIME
-Lisa Song: ProPublica, InsideClimate News
-Rachel Ramirez: CNN
-Rebecca Leber: Vox, Mother Jones, Grist, The New Republic
-Robinson Meyer: The Atlantic
-Somini Sengupta: The New York Times, Forbes
ABOUT SEAL AWARDS
SEAL (Sustainability, Environmental Achievement & Leadership) Awards is an environmental advocacy organization that honors leadership through our corporate sustainability awards & environmental journalism awards while funding research and pursuing our own environmental impact campaigns.
The SEAL Awards core pillars are:
-Business Sustainability Awards
-Environmental Journalism Awards
-Environmental Research Grants
Media Contact
Safa Bee Wesley, SEAL Awards, (760) 815-0961, [email protected]
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