The Grantham Prize for Environmental Journalism

 

Congratulations to the 2009 Grantham Prize Finalists!

Chemical Fallout
Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for their series, “Chemical Fallout." After months of consulting with scientists and studying…
The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America
Blake Morrison and Brad Heath of USA Today for their ambitious series, "The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America's Schools."  The series…
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Andrew Nikiforuk for his book, "Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent," published by Greystone Books. Nikiforuk…
e2: Transport
Tad Fettig, Karena Albers, and Veronique Bernard from kontentreal for their 6-part television series, “e2: Transport.” The series,…

Grantham Prize Jurors Represent Wealth of Journalism Experience

An independent panel of five jurors evaluated the entries and selected the finalists. The jurors were: Chair Philip Meyer, Emeritus Professor, and former Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication; David Boardman, Executive Editor of The Seattle Times; Peter Desbarats, veteran print and television journalist and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of Western Ontario; Diane Hawkins-Cox, former Senior Producer for the Science and Technology Unit at CNN; and Robert B. Semple, Jr., Associate Editor of the Editorial Page for The New York Times.

The winner and Award of Special Merit recipients will be formally recognized at a prize ceremony and seminar to be held October 5, 2009, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.