Five journalists have been selected as 2005-06 Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The fellowships are hosted by the Center for Environmental Journalism and funded through a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation. The nine-month program offers mid-career journalists an opportunity to deepen their understanding of environmental issues and policy through coursework, seminars and field trips in the region.
Following are the new Ted Scripps Fellows:
Bebe Crouse is the environment editor for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. She oversees NPR's environment and general news coverage in 12 western states and edits staff and freelance environment stories from other regions. Crouse's career includes five years at CBS News writing daily news analysis and commentary for Dan Rather and producing other feature and live segments for the network. She also spent three years as a Mexico City-based independent producer and reporter.
Don Hopey is an environment reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His writing displays a mix of local, state and national investigative stories and issue-oriented outdoor features. He has produced series of articles about pollution caused by the nation's hazardous waste incinerators, shortcomings in Pennsylvania's regulation of longwall coal mining and an 80-mile canoe trip through the Wild and Scenic sections of the Allegheny River. Hopey has traveled to Central Europe to research and report about a range of environmental problems.
Jeff Johnson is senior editor for Chemical and Engineering News in Washington, D.C. He covers energy, the environment, science policy, chemical accidents and economics. Topics he has written about include air emissions and the Clean Air Act, mercury pollution, renewable energy from the ocean, cleanups at
former Department of Energy nuclear weapons plants and "clean coal." Previously, Johnson worked for Environmental Science & Technology, a monthly environmental science magazine and the Daily Environment Reporter, a Bureau of National Affairs publication.
Greg Stahl is the senior reporter at the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, Idaho. Working in rural Idaho, Stahl has covered public land issues such as user conflicts between backcountry skiers and snowmobilers, resource issues such as forest health, and endangered species issues including gray wolf reintroduction. In addition to reporting, Stahl coordinates teams of reporters and photographers working on in-depth articles for the twice-weekly newspaper. Previously, his freelance articles ran in publications such as High Country News and Sun Valley Art magazine.
Andrea Welsh is a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She writes about trends in Brazil's beverage, auto, mining and steel sectors. Welsh led the way in writing about Brazil's appeal as a global steel-making center and in covering the country's beer sector during the takeover of a local brewer by Belgium's Interbrew. She previously worked as Latin America reporter for Petroleum Argus, a Houston-based trade publication and covered the oil workers' strikes in Venezuela and the coup against President Hugo Chavez.
Since 1997, the Scripps Howard Foundation has provided annual grants for its fellowships at CU-Boulder, named for Ted Scripps, grandson of the founder of the E.W. Scripps Co. Ted Scripps distinguished himself as a journalist who cared about First Amendment rights and the environment.
The Center for Environmental Journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at CU-Boulder is the first of its kind in the United States. For more information call (303) 492-4114 or visit the Web site at .