When: April 24 at 7:00pm
Where: University House, 4400 Stone Way N, Seattle
Are you interested in going on location to report important stories, but feel a little unprepared? We’ve got the panel for you. Join us on Wednesday (April 24) at 7:00 pm at University House.
This is designed for writers interested in reporting stories that require or are enhanced through field reporting. Want to get started field reporting but unsure how? Feel unsure about how to find the right sources and stay safe abroad? Or maybe you want to be sure to avoid the pitfalls common to “parachute journalism.”
Three Seattle-area journalists with experience reporting in the outdoors and across the world will discuss tips, tricks, and things to know when gathering stories and reporting in the field–from how to find a fixer to essential gear to stay safe.
The panel will be moderated by NSWA Secretary Jenny Morber, who has experience finding and reporting stories in locations such as Senegal, Israel, and the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Continue the conversation after the panel with attendees across the street at Tutta Bella to share more field reporting experiences.
We’d love to have you in-person but if you can’t be there, Zoom in.
The Panel:
Jenny Morber
The panel will be moderated by NSWA Secretary Jenny Morber, who has experience finding and reporting stories in locations such as Senegal, Israel, and the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Ashley Braun
Ashley Braun is an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist based in Seattle, Washington. Her reporting has taken her from the United Nations climate summit in Morocco and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to California’s redwood forests and Washington’s salmon rivers. Her work has appeared in Longreads, The Atlantic, Slate, Science, Scientific American, Hakai Magazine, bioGraphic, Audubon Magazine, Science News, Civil Eats, Crosscut, Medium, Discover Magazine, Popular Science, Earth Touch News, Grist.org, and OnEarth.org.
Lauren Frohne
Lauren Frohne is the lead video journalist at The Seattle Times where she works collaboratively with writers, photographers and editors to produce award-winning, innovative video stories, documentary films, and interactive digital projects. Throughout her career Lauren has reported from many salmon streams, rivers, and forests in the Pacific Northwest. She produced projects about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, communities living on the Galápagos Islands, early childhood education in Liberia, Roma communities in Romania and Slovakia, NGOs in Haiti and more.
Wudan Yan
Wudan Yan is an award-winning narrative journalist, fact-checker, and entrepreneur who has received grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, UC Berkeley, the Institute of Journalism and Natural Resources, and the International Women’s Media Foundation to support her work. Wudan’s reporting has taken her to the largest refugee camp in the world, the expansive oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia, corners of the former Soviet Union and the US that live in the shadow of nuclear weapons testing, and the rugged mountain ranges of the American West. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, High Country News, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times, Popular Mechanics and beyond.
Got a question for the panel? Email info@nwscience.org.