Journalism & Media

Analysis: Trump Administration Attacks Science, As Environment Suffers

It’s not just scientists who are being lost to the new administration’s extensive firings of federal workers. A Backgrounder Analysis argues it’s the science itself. It’s happening at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but also across agencies that conduct research to protect health and the environment, whether around toxic chemicals or on the battleground of climate change science. A frank look at the reality and what’s being lost for journalists and the communities they serve.

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Why Now’s the Time To Tell a Good Fish Tale

With fishing season underway across the United States, reporters have a line to an array of great, local environmental stories, whether about the recreation and tourism industries or overfishing and the health of regional ecosystems. The latest TipSheet has more than a dozen story ideas and reporting resources to help you reel in an angle of your own.

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Ancestral Eyes: Storytelling Under The Night Skies Of The Stargazer Highway

"Against the black night, the darker-than-night silhouettes of Monument Valley buttes graced the horizon. Overhead, stars were scattered across the sky—a prank by Coyote, according to Navajo legend—and the stripe of Milky Way stars arced brilliantly across the sky from the southwest to the northeast horizon."

Source: National Parks Traveler, 05/30/2025

Friends Complete Murdered Journalist Dom Phillips's Book on The Amazon

"After British journalist Dom Phillips was shot and killed while researching an ambitious book on how to protect the world’s largest rainforest, friends vowed to finish the project. Three years later, their task is complete."

Source: AP, 05/29/2025

Md. Advocates Urge Penalties on Gas Firm After False Environmental Claims

"Advocates are ramping up pressure on the Maryland Public Service Commission to penalize Washington Gas Light Company following a March ruling which found that the company misled millions of customers by claiming methane gas was better for the environment than electricity."

Source: Inside Climate News, 05/29/2025

RFK Jr. Threatens To Bar Govt Scientists From Publishing In Medical Journals

"HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to stop government scientists from publishing their work in major medical journals on a podcast Tuesday as part of his escalating war on institutions he says are influenced by pharmaceutical companies."

Source: Politico, 05/28/2025

"In ‘Cancer Alley,’ a Battle Over Who Gets to Measure Air Pollution"

"Community groups are fighting an unusual Louisiana law that restricts how they use data from air-quality monitors, saying it violates free speech."

Source: NYTimes, 05/28/2025
June 3, 2025

GIJN Webinar: Behind the Data — Tools and Techniques From the 2025 Sigma Award Winners

Moderated by journalist and newsroom leader Gina Chua, this Global Investigative Journalism Network session offers a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the workflows powering award-winning journalism featuring groundbreaking investigations (many of them environmental) from around the globe. 9 a.m. ET.

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"How Trump’s Return Is Pushing the Media to Self-Censor"

"Trump—as he has made clear again and again—disdains the press. And that hatred has consequences. He has launched legal challenges against outlets whose coverage he deems unfavorable, mocked journalists, and picked an obsequious Federal Communications Commission nominee ready to help him do as he pleases."

Source: Mother Jones, 05/27/2025

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