MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Noted journalist on global warming Ross Gelbspan will speak at Middlebury College in the Hillcrest Environmental Center, Room 103, on Wednesday, September 12, at 4:30 p.m. The talk, titled “Scenes From The Field: Lessons From Reporting In A Hostile Environment,” is free and open to the public. The Hillcrest Environmental Center is located on College Street (Route 125) on the Middlebury campus.
Gelbspan, author of The Heat Is On (1997) and Boiling Point (2004) and a working journalist for more than 30 years, is the first reporter-in-residence for the Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism. From September 9-15, the 10 early-career journalists chosen last spring as fellows participate in a week-long residency at Middlebury's Bread Loaf mountain campus. They will work with Gelbspan and fellowship staff on stories they proposed in their applications, all relating to the natural world. Gelbspan’s talk is the inaugural lecture of the Fellowship Program.
“We’re enormously lucky and pleased to welcome Ross Gelbspan as our first reporter-in-residence,” said Middlebury College Scholar-In-Residence in Environmental Studies Bill McKibben, the director of the fellowship program. “Sometimes it’s hard to get the truth told these days, and Ross has seen it all. Nobody working today better embodies the qualities of commitment and hard-nosed reporting these fellowships are meant to foster. Plus, he’s a great speaker.”
The 10 fellows for 2007 are:
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Andrew Mambondiyani of Zimbabwe
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Heather Smith of San Francisco
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Adam Welz of South Africa
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Els Van Woert of Billings, Montana
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Sasha Chavkin of Brooklyn, New York
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Shadi Rahimi of San Francisco
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Forrest Wilder of Austin, Texas
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Carolyn Kormann of New York City
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Phil McKenna of Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Emily Peterson of New Orleans