Narragansett, RI -- April 27, 2001 --
The third annual Metcalf Institute for
Marine and Environmental Reporting
fellowships have been awarded to twelve
journalists in broadcast, print, and
electronic media.
Working with scientists in the
laboratory and in the field, they will
participate in a five-day workshop from
June 11-15 at the URI Graduate School of
Oceanography (GSO) on "Coastal Impacts:
Fisheries, Beach Erosion, Water
Pollution." The Metcalf Institute provides
journalists and scientists a venue to work
together to improve the accuracy and
clarity of marine and environmental
reporting.
The journalists are Howard Altschiller,
executive news editor, The Standard Times,
New Bedford, MA; Jeff Burnside, special
projects producer, WTVJ NBC 6 News, Miami,
FL; Wendy Fontaine, reporter, The Newport
Daily News, Newport, RI; JoAnn Goddard,
staff writer, Soundings, Essex, CT;
Suzannah Gonzales, reporting intern, The
Providence Journal; Jack Kaskey,
environmental reporter, The Press of
Atlantic City, Pleasantville, NJ;
Alexander Kupriyanchuk, contributing
representative, Severo-Zapad Media, St.
Petersburg, Russia; Daniel Orchard,
reporter, The South County Independent,
Wakefield, RI; Lisa Pinsker, assistant
producer, Finger Lakes Productions,
Ithaca, NY; Krishna Ramanujan, science
writer intern, NASA Earth Observing System
Science News Team, NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; Christina
Reed, associate editor/staff writer,
Geotimes, Alexandria, VA; Henry Shirazu,
freelance journalist, Accra, Ghana.
Additionally, two URI journalism students,
John Leclerc of North Smithfield and
Rebecca Nichols of Morrisville, NY, will
be funded by URI to attend the
workshop.
The workshop emphasizes the cultures of
science and the media, how scientific
research is integrated into regulations
and community planning, and the ethics and
principles that guide scientific research.
The Metcalf fellows will conduct a fish
trawl on Narragansett Bay, kayak and
collect water samples on the Narrow River,
and conduct geologic surveys of the
southern Rhode Island coast.
Four public lectures and a debate on
environmental issues are also planned
during the week of the workshop. Speakers,
dates, and times will be announced in
May.
The Metcalf Institute for Marine and
Environmental Reporting was founded in
1997 by the A.H. Belo Corporation, The
Providence Journal Foundation, and the
Washington Post's Philip Graham Fund, with
additional funding from the Telaka
Foundation in 1998. The Metcalf Institute
was named in honor of the late publisher
of The Providence Journal, Michael P.
Metcalf. For more information visit the
Metcalf Institute web site at
www.gso.uri.edu/metcalf.
Contact: Lisa Cugini, (401) 874-6642,
lcugini@gso.uri.edu
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