OEDG: Building Diversity in, and through, Environmental Journalism

环境新闻奖旨在通过提高媒体对环境报道的质量和数量，加强地球科学领域代表性不足的人群对地球和环境的理解。 环境记者协会和&哥伦比亚大学的地球环境科学新闻项目将与少数民族记者、为少数民族服务的媒体组织雇用的记者以及少数民族记者专业协会合作（美国土著记者协会，全国黑人记者协会，和全国西班牙裔记者协会）提高有色人种记者和为少数民族社区服务的记者对报道地球和环境的兴趣;提高非少数群体记者和编辑对如何通过环境报道为少数群体受众服务的认识;交流技能和信息资源，以便更好地报道少数群体特别感兴趣的环境问题;促进有色人种记者和环境记者之间的基层同事关系和合作;促进环境记者专业协会和少数群体记者之间的机构伙伴关系;展示和奖励代表性不足的少数群体记者的模范环境新闻报道。

ABSTRACTBuilding Diversity in, and through, Environmental JournalismThis award seeks to strengthen the understanding of the Earth and environment among populations underrepresented in geosciences by improving the quality and quantity of coverage of the environment in media that reach these communities. The Society of Environmental Journalists and the Earth & Environmental Science Journalism Program at Columbia University will work with minority journalists, with journalists employed by minority-serving media organizations, and with the professional societies of minority journalists (the Native American Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists) to raise interest in covering the Earth and environment among journalists of color and journalists who serve minority communities; raise awareness among non-minority journalists and editors of how minority audiences can be served through environmental reporting; exchange skills and information resources for better reporting on environmental issues of special interest to minority communities; foster grassroots collegial relationships and collaborations between individual journalists of color and environmental journalists; foster institutional partnerships between the professional societies of environmental journalists and minority journalists; showcase and reward exemplary environmental journalism by journalists who are members of underrepresented minorities.