[Sci-tech-public] Feb. 2 HKS seminar Clean Energy & the Media seminar

[Cristine Russell]

WIND ENERGY COVERAGE:

WHICH WAY DOES THE MEDIA WIND BLOW?


 Wednesday, February 2, 12-1:30 p.m.

Harvard Kennedy School, Bell Hall, Belfer Building, 5th floor

First in a spring series on Clean Energy & the Media

Join a conversation with two distinguished environment reporters
Beth Daley of The Boston Globe &
Elizabeth Rosenthal of The New York Times

Discussant:  Henry Lee, Director of the Environment and Natural    Resources
Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Moderator: Alex Jones, Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press,
Politics and Public Policy

Co-sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and
the

Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Open to the community on a first-come, first-serve basis. Light lunch
provided.


>From Massachusetts’ Cape Wind to the nation’s Capitol, the future of wind
energy as a source of clean electric power is high on the American agenda
and the international energy front as well. But how well has the media
covered it, and how well does the public understand the challenges wind
faces in becoming a significant energy player?

 In recent years, the promise of renewable energy has been promoted across
the political, environmental, and business landscape, as concerns about
American reliance on fossil fuels have mounted. At a pivotal moment when
climate change reaches a tipping point, and new energy policies are being
formed, the media play a vital role in helping shape the public debate. Yet
clean energy is a complex and important story at a time when the media is
stretched thin, newsrooms are cutting back, and advocacy blogs increasingly
dominate the online universe. Informing the public with critical and strong
reportage about energy is imperative, but is the news media up to the task?*
*

Upcoming HKS Clean Energy & the Media Seminars:

Wednesday, February 23, 1:00-2:30 p.m."The Long Road to Electric Cars: Green
Hope or Media Hype?" Bell Hall, Belfer Bldg., 5th Floor
Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor, and Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine
environment reporter

 Wednesday, March 23, 1:00-2:30 p.m. "The Seesaw Coverage of Nuclear Power:
Promise or Peril?” Bell  Hall, Belfer Bldg., 5th Floor
Ned Potter, ABC News science correspondent, and Matthew Wald, New York
Timesscience reporter

For more information, contact Cristine_Russell at hks.harvard.edu
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