The Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School has selected three journalists for its 2015 Summer Media Fellowship. Each fellow, chosen from a pool of several dozen highly qualified applicants, will attend a two-week Summer Session course at VLS and deliver a lecture as part of the law school's free "Hot Topics" series.
The 2015 Summer Media Fellows are:
Natalie Allen is an anchor and correspondent with CNN International. Allen currently anchors "CNN Newsroom." She has more than 25 years of experience as a broadcast journalist, including at NBC News, MSNBC and The Weather Channel, where she was the network's first full-time environment correspondent for its flagship program on climate and adaptation, "Forecast Earth."
Tim McDonnell is a reporter with Mother Jones and associate producer of Climate Desk, an international collaboration that includes Mother Jones, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Slate, Wired, Grist and the Center for Investigative Reporting and that produces original multimedia journalism on climate change. McDonnell covers many angles of climate change, from science to environmental politics to business.
Zoë Schlanger is a reporter with Newsweek, where she covers all aspects of environmental health and climate change. She previously worked at The Nation, InsideClimate News, Gothamist, and The Rachel Maddow Show. She often writes about environmental justice—and whether health is regarded as a human right under the law.
Fellows were selected based on work history and samples, commitment to covering environmental issues, and their potential for increasing understanding of environmental law and policy issues nationwide.
Former summer media fellows include Kevin Begos of The Associated Press; Osha Gray Davidson, who has written for Rolling Stone and The New York Times; Tom Henry, The Toledo Blade; Tim Wheeler of The Baltimore Sun; Jeremy Jacobs, Greenwire; Richard Harris of National Public Radio; and Beth Daley, The Boston Globe.
In addition to attending class, media fellows will join faculty and other distinguished scholars in delivering lectures as part of Vermont Law School's 2015 Hot Topics summer series, which covers a wide range of current issues in environmental law. Free and open to the public, the hour-long lectures will be held from noon to 1 p.m. beginning May 30 in Oakes Hall Room 007 on the VLS campus. Vermont Bar Association Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit is available. A schedule of upcoming Hot Topics will be announced later this spring at www.vermontlaw.edu/summer. For more information about the series, call Courtney Collins at 802-831-1371 or email ccollins@vermontlaw.edu.
The Vermont Law School Summer Media Fellowship program has been made possible since 2002 by a generous grant from the Johnson Family Foundation.