Journalism
I’m a freelance journalist who covers under-the-radar trends and amplifies unheard voices.
In the course of 30 years of reporting and analyzing global news and culture for print and online media, I’ve published 7 cover stories and been a regular contributor to two dearly departed national magazines: Nuclear Times (the bimonthly covering Soviet-American relations and the U.S. peace movement) and Biography Magazine (the glossy monthly spinoff of the A&E Network history series). I’ve also written for Extra!, the journal of the media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, for more than two decades. Along the way, I’ve sold articles to consumer, trade, regional, alumni, and independent press outlets from Seventeen to The Nation.
Hiking the Eco Beat
Since the early 2000s, my professional passion has been the environment, particularly climate change, energy, and women’s environmental health. An unexpected choice for a Bard College English major with a near-aversion to science…until I realized that the way we humans treat the natural world always comes back to us. Now I positively geek out on things like SPIN farming, low-carbon cement, and gas flaring. My reported pieces have appeared in The Daily Climate, E: The Environmental Magazine, American Forests, and BioScience, among other outlets. Most recently, I was under contract with the energy news site ShaleReporter, covering the effects of fracking in Pennsylvania and beyond. Simultaneously, I worked as a news aggregator for The Daily Climate and Environmental Health News, scouring the internet at dawn for breaking stories. My work has taken me inside a sewer in Philadelphia, to a highway protest outside the U.N. climate talks in Mexico, and to fossil-fuel boomtowns across the country.
Now that I've added mental health to the beats I follow, expect to see me addressing environmental angles of the topic....
At left: "Establishment Media and the Green New Deal: New Wine in Old Bottles," FAIR.org.
My study of press coverage of the "Green New Deal" resolution found that much of the media filtered coverage through the lens of conventional expectations. For the most part, the resolution’s primary drivers –climate science and the need for equitable climate policy—were engaged with only briefly.