Environmental Journalism

Tristan Baurick (Ted Scripps Fellowship Alumnus ‘12-’13) has been doing great things since leaving Boulder, including helping to fight back against environmental racism. Together with fellow journalists Joan Meiners, Gordon Russell and Sara Sneath from The Times-Picayune and The Advocate, and Claire Perlman, Al Shaw and Lylla Younes from ProPublica, Baurick and his team won the award for Outstanding Investigative Reporting (Large Newsroom or Circulation) at the 2020 Society Environmental Journalists’ conference for their investigative reporting on Louisiana’s Cancer Alley.

As part of the Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism, award-winning journalists have been coming to CU Boulder for 21 years. Fellows embark on a year of courses, projects, field trips, seminars and more — taking advantage of everything university life has to offer. This series is a chance to...