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#SEJ2025 LIVE: Complete Coverage of Plenaries, Sessions, Tours
Get top takeaways, key quotes, detailed perspectives and images from more than 50 topical sessions, plenaries and tours at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference in Tempe, Arizona. Comprehensive coverage comes from an expanded #SEJ2025 LIVE student newsroom, which this year brought together two dozen student reporters and editors. Part 1 has more than two dozen reports from Day 1. Part 2 has nearly a dozen reports from Day 2. Part 3 has more than a dozen reports from SEJ tours. Plus, see SEJ.org’s multimedia coverage of the conference, including plenary videos and audio recordings of many conference sessions.
2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy
In this special report, “2025 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy,” the SEJournal looks ahead in our ninth annual guide to key issues in the coming year. Check out the guide’s special forward-focused TipSheets, Backgrounders, WatchDogs, a new EJ TransitionWatch column and more. Plus, an overview analysis.
Trump 2.0 EJWatch
Trump 2.0 EJWatch is a new special section spotlighting SEJournal stories and EJToday headlines that track the impact of the new Trump administration on the environment, energy and journalism. Launched in February 2025, Trump 2.0 EJWatch takes the baton from Environmental Journalism TransitionWatch, a limited-run weekly report published following Election Day 2024 until shortly after Trump’s inauguration. In it, you’ll find our latest Trump 2.0 EJWatch-branded stories, a catalog of the ten TransitionWatch reports and the latest Trump-related environment and energy headlines. Check back for updates regularly!
#SEJ2024 LIVE: On-the-Ground Coverage from Reporters in Our Inaugural Student Newsroom
As part of a new initiative for the Society of Environmental Journalists' 2024 annual conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from April 3-7, the SEJ Publications team organized an inaugural student newsroom to provide running coverage throughout the conference and beyond. Explore on-the-spot writeups and images of workshops, sessions and tours from our student reporters.
2024 Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy
SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with our eighth annual Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy. In the 2024 special report, we offer a series of forward-focused TipSheets and Backgrounders, plus more in the weeks ahead, including an overview and then coverage from the Society of Environmental Journalists' year-ahead roundtable on Nov. 16 in Washington, D.C.
Climate Solutions: Business, Nature, Energy, Ocean
As part of an initiative of the Society of Environmental Journalists to help journalists better cover climate solutions, our special report takes a closer look at business-based, nature-based, methane/energy-based and ocean-based solutions, with reporting tipsheets, resource toolboxes, and links to SEJ webinars on each topic.
Covering Your Climate: The South
This special report is the second in a series designed to help journalists of all kinds cover the impacts of climate change in their region, and to report on actions taken to mitigate its worst effects and preparations for what can't be stopped. This special report on the Southern United States includes an extensive background overview, tipsheets for closer looks at anticipated impacts, at efforts to mitigate them and any plans to adapt. And to help cover this wealth of story ideas, also see our extensive regional resource toolbox.
Covering Your Climate: The Emerald Corridor
This special report is designed to help journalists in the Pacific Northwest cover the impacts of climate change, as well as the actions taken to mitigate its worst effects and to adapt to what can’t be stopped. The report was produced February-March 2020 and includes a wide-ranging issue backgrounder, a toolbox and three tipsheets on climate impacts, mitigation and adaptation offering a wealth of story ideas for right now, and over the coming decade.
2023 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment
The SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year. Check out the guide’s special, forward-focused TipSheets and Backgrounders, along with an overview analysis. We’ve also supplemented this year’s guide with a special look at environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest. Plus, reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists' year-ahead roundtable in February.
2022 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment
SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with this "2022 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment" special report. The guide was rolled out in early January, with new features added through to its formal launch in late January at an annual roundtable organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists. Check out the guide's various Backgrounders, TipSheets and WatchDog reports.
2021 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment
SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with this "2021 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment" special report. The report was formally launched Jan. 27, 2021, at an annual roundtable organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists and hosted virtually by National Geographic Society. Check out the guide's various Backgrounders, TipSheets and WatchDog reports, an overview analysis and live event coverage.
