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InsideClimate News
Founded2007[1]
FounderDavid Sassoon and Stacy Feldman[2]
TypeOnline publication[3]
Legal status501(c)(3)
FocusInvestigative news regarding climate, energy, and the environment
Location
  • Brooklyn, NY
Area served
United States
Key people
Stacy Feldman
Lawrence Rodman
Norman Pearlstine
Budget (2016)
US$1.352 million[4]
Employees18[2]
Websiteinsideclimatenews.org

InsideClimate News is a non-profit[5] news organization, focusing on environmental journalism.[6] The publication writes that it "covers clean energy, carbon energy, nuclear energy and environmental science—plus the territory in between where law, policy and public opinion are shaped."[5]

Established in 2007, the Brooklyn, New York-based website covers environmental issues. In 2013 three of its staff members won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on the Kalamazoo River oil spill in Michigan.[7]

History

The website was co-founded in 2007 by publisher David Sassoon and executive editor Stacy Feldman.[2] Originally called SolveClimate News, it adopted its current name "to counter the perception that it was an environmental advocacy organization."[6] As a non-profit journalism outlet, InsideClimate News's model is similar to that of ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting, which have similarly gained recognition.[8] Like the other two organizations, InsideClimate News publishes its content for free on the Web, collaborates with for-profit news organizations that republish some of the nonprofit's work with credit, and aims "to tackle topics that bigger, better-known news organizations are not equipped or inclined to do."[8]

A 2015 article by Jillian Melchior in National Review said there are questions about InsideClimate News's possible conflict of interest and bias.[9]

As of February 2018, InsideClimate News had a staff of 18, including 7 full-time reporters.[2]

Awards

Three InsideClimate News reporters—Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song, and David Hasemyer—won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their series of "rigorous reports" on the Kalamazoo River oil spill in Michigan, in which an Enbridge oil pipeline spill led to the costliest onshore oil spill in American history.[6][10] The Pulitzer citation praised the reporters for exporting the aftermath of the 2010-2012 oil spill and "flawed regulation of the nation's oil pipelines, focusing on potential ecological dangers posed by diluted bitumen (or 'dilbit'), a controversial form of oil."[10][8][11]

In April 2016, InsideClimate News was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for the 2015 Exxon: The Road Not Taken series.[12][13] InsideClimate News was awarded a 2015 Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism by the Society of Professional Journalists for the informational graphics in the Exxon: The Road Not Taken series, which "provide a visual timeline of Exxon's views and efforts on climate change since the 1970s, and evidence of its uncertainty campaigns in the 1990s and 2000s."[14][15] The White House Correspondents Association awarded InsideClimate News a share in the 2016 Edgar A. Poe Award, which annually honors "excellence in news coverage of subjects and events of significant national or regional importance, written with fairness and objectivity," for the Exxon: The Road Not Taken series.[16][17]

References

  1. ^ Levitz, Dena.Ten Questions with David Sassoon of InsideClimate News. May 9, 2013. Accessed Oct. 14, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "People". InsideClimate News. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  3. ^ Stelter, Brian (2013-04-16). "A Pulitzer Prize, but Without a Newsroom to Put It In". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  4. ^ "ICN 2016 Biennial Report" (PDF). ICN. p. 7.
  5. ^ a b About InsideClimate News, InsideClimate News. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  6. ^ a b c Curtis Brainard, InsideClimate wins a Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism Review (April 16, 2013).
  7. ^ "2013 Pulitzer Prizes: Journalism". Pulitzer Prize Board. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
  8. ^ a b c Brian Stelter, A Pulitzer Prize, but Without a Newsroom to Put It In, New York Times (April 16, 2013).
  9. ^ Melchior, Jillian (2015-12-22). "InsideClimate News: Journalism or Green PR?". National Review. Retrieved 2020-02-01. The little that is known about InsideClimate News raises questions about conflicts of interest as well as about the publication's ability, and proclivity, to report fairly and without bias.
  10. ^ a b The 2013 Pulitzer Prize Winners: National Reporting. The Pulitzer Prizes. With short biographies, reprints of 11 works (InsideClimate News stories June 26 to December 27, 2012), and formal entry for the prize.
  11. ^ Haughney, Christine (April 16, 2013). Times Wins Four Pulitzers; Brooklyn Nonprofit Is Awarded a Reporting Prize, The New York Times, p. A19.
  12. ^ "Finalist: InsideClimate News". Columbia University. 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  13. ^ "InsideClimate News Is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Exxon Investigation". InsideClimate News. April 18, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  14. ^ "Announcing the 2015 Sigma Delta Chi Award winners". Society of Professional Journalists. April 22, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  15. ^ "InsideClimate News Wins SPJ Award for #ExxonKnew Infographics". InsideClimate News. April 22, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  16. ^ "White House Correspondents' Association Announces 2016 Journalism Awards". White House Correspondents Association. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  17. ^ "White House Correspondents' Association Honors ICN's #ExxonKnew With Poe Award". InsideClimate News. April 25, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
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