{"id":60145,"date":"2012-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/salt-lake-tribune-team-wins-worlds-richest-journalism-prize\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:00:00","slug":"salt-lake-tribune-team-wins-worlds-richest-journalism-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/06\/salt-lake-tribune-team-wins-worlds-richest-journalism-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake Tribune Team Wins World\u2019s Richest Journalism Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t$75,000 Grantham Prize Honors Excellence in Environmental Journalism<\/p>\n


\nWASHINGTON, DC \u2013 June 6, 2012 \u2013 A three-person team from The Salt Lake Tribune has been awarded the 2012 The Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. Brandon Loomis, Rick Egan and Dave Noyce will receive a total of $75,000 for \u201cOur Dying Forests,\u201d an extraordinary series examining the links between climate change and the spread of beetles that are destroying millions of acres of forests in the American West. <\/p>\n


\nU.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse named The Grantham Prize winners at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation\u2019s Leadership Awards Dinner on June 5, in conjunction with Capitol Hill Ocean Week, the premier ocean conference in our nation\u2019s capital. Sunshine Menezes, executive director of the Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting at the 溏心vlog免费B站, which administers the prize, introduced the winners to the public at a news conference today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., where Loomis spoke about his special report on forests and the significance of winning the prestigious award. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI’m thrilled to have such recognition for a project that we knew from the start was bigger than Utah or the Rocky Mountains,\u201d said Salt Lake Tribune reporter Brandon Loomis. \u201cMy sources revealed many climate change-driven threats to forests in the US and globally through their research, and I hope reporters everywhere will pick up where we left off to investigate and explain what’s happening where they live.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe Grantham Jury praised the team\u2019s methodical research and measured reporting on this story and noted the series\u2019 potential to help thousands of readers better understand the small and large impacts of climate change with an approach that can be replicated in newsrooms across America. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cExperts have long been aware of the dangers implicit in the wholesale disappearance of ancient forests,\u201d said Grantham Prize Juror Robert Semple, Jr. of The New York Times. \u201cBrandon Loomis\u2019 incredible reporting has now deftly alerted a wider public to this important issue.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\u201cBrandon Loomis has set the bar for excellence in environmental journalism with this outstanding story,\u201d added Menezes. \u201cAs global change yields ever more obvious impacts on our society, it\u2019s important to recognize journalists who produce well researched, high-quality environmental stories about these impacts. The Salt Lake Tribune\u2019s reporting should serve as a model for other mid-sized news outlets trying to explain the local effects of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n2012 Grantham Awards of Special Merit

\nGrantham Prize Jurors also selected three entries to receive the 2012 Grantham Award of Special Merit. Each of the following recipients will receive a $5,000 cash prize:<\/p>\n


\n\u2022\tPaul Greenberg, author, \u201cFour Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food.\u201d Published by Penguin Press, this remarkable book chronicles the state of salmon, cod, sea bass, and tuna, and with solid reporting and common sense, offers suggestions for how we can maintain commercial fish supplies while restoring wild runs.<\/p>\n


\n\u2022\tGary Marcuse & Betsy Carson of Face to Face Media with videographer Shi Lihong, for the documentary \u201cWaking the Green Tiger: A Green Movement Rises in China.\u201d Combining astonishing archival footage of Chairman Mao\u2019s campaigns to conquer nature with lush and surprising new footage, the film follows a citizens\u2019 campaign to stop a massive dam project that would displace 100,000 people along China\u2019s Yangtze River. Strong personal stories from government insiders and witnesses offer a rare glimpse at China\u2019s fledgling environmental advocacy movement.<\/p>\n


\n\u2022\tDelphine Andrews, Whitney Baker, Caitlyn Greene, Hadley Gustafson, Kristen Long, Jeffrey Mittelstadt, Hely Olivares, Catherine Orr, Sarah Riazati, Mimi Schiffman and Catherine Spangler and Laura Ruel of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for the multimedia series \u201cCoal: A Love Story.\u201d This interactive website represents an unparalleled use of multimedia storytelling, bringing viewers varied perspectives on the role of coal in U.S. electricity generation while offering data-driven interactive graphics that make us understand America\u2019s use of coal in a fresh and innovative way. <\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 The Grantham Prize

\nEstablished in 2005, the prize is funded by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham through The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and is administered by the Metcalf Institute at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography. The Grantham Foundation supports communication and collaboration in environmental protection, with an emphasis on climate change, while Metcalf Institute provides journalists with resources, tools, and immersive science training to improve their reporting on scientific news and environmental issues.<\/p>\n


\nTo learn more about the Grantham Prize winners, visit www.granthamprize.org. For more information on the Metcalf Institute, visit www.metcalfinstitute.org or contact Karen Southern at 401-874-6009\/ksouthern@gso.uri.edu. Follow us on Twitter @GranthamPrize and @Metcalf溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


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