Adam Mahoney
@AdamLMahoney
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Hey, y'all! What's good? Adam Mahoney here, environment reporter at Capital B, coming to you from my bed in Los Angeles, California. I planned to center this newsletter around my ongoing series about Black migration, climate change, and the irrevocable condition of being without a true home as a Black person in the U.S., but I've decided to switch it up and focus on something light: Rest.
I've been sick with the flu for a few days now, holed up in the comfort and safety of my own home. It's had me thinking about how we've accepted rest as an unattainable privilege rather than a common fixture in our lives. When I first entered the environmental reporting space, I used to think about this a lot: who was afforded the chance to be still and to decompress, and who benefited from our collective lack of serenity and peace.
Studies and reports—including one I did last year— have shown how frontline communities are deprived of any semblance of comfort, which derails interpersonal relationships, taints mental health, and exacerbates depression and anxiety. But that's also true for people of color across all economic backgrounds regardless of whether we live next to oil infrastructure or warehouses because we exist in a different, yet just as life-shaping, "frontline" community every day in this country.
I think I've shied away from appreciating softness and rest lately, forgetting its vital importance in my own life — and the lives of the folks I work with and speak with daily for my stories. As we honor Black history this month, I'll be uplifting that idea in my work and relationships. Check in with your Black and marginalized sources when you connect with them and make sure they're trying to utilize softness in their lives as well because if the climate crisis has shown us anything, it's that we keep us safe.
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2023 Uproot Environmental Justice Fellowship
At The Uproot Project, we believe there are important environmental justice stories that need to be told, and that journalists of color bring critical and fresh perspectives to covering these stories. With The Uproot Project’s Environmental Justice Fellowship, we want to help underrepresented journalists shed light on undercovered topics. This fellowship will offer funding to seven journalists to pursue reporting projects over the course of a year. Fellows will receive up to $2,000 to cover travel and other reporting expenses, and will also receive support from Uproot to place their stories with a media outlet, if requested. Applications will open on February 1. You can read more about the fellowship & application requirements here.
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Uproot Updates
What members need to know:
EVENTS:
#SEJ2023
IJNR: SEJ Post-Conference Tour
- Beyond Yellowstone: Connecting Divided Landscapes
- A number of spots will be reserved for Uproot members
- Read more and apply
INITIATIVES:
- The Uproot Project Environmental Justice Fellowships - 2023
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Growing new roots
Job opportunities, grants, and fellowships
- MLK50, Science Reporter
- The Lever, News Editor
- CGEP, Energy Journalism Fellowship (Deadline March 1)
- Global Investigative Journalism Network, Executive Director
- The Fern, Editor-in-Chief
- The Guardian, Reporter, Fossil Fuels and Climate
- Environmental Health News, Texas Environmental Health Reporter
- University of Colorado Boulder Center for Environmental Journalism, Scripps Fellowship (Deadline March 1)
- Atmos, Digital Producer
- ICT, Deputy Managing Editor
- ICT, Anchorage Bureau Reporter/Producer
- AP, Internships (Deadline Feb 20)
- Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, 2023 Ochberg Fellowship (Deadline March 1)
- CNN, Writer, Extreme Weather
- KQED, Digital Editor, Climate
- The Seattle Times, Climate Change Reporter
- The Guardian, Audience engagement editor, underrepresented communities
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