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The Kiplinger Fellowship in Climate Change Reporting is proud to announce its list of professional speakers who represent some of the top leaders in journalism and climate sciences.

This year’s fellowship will feature 15 trainers who will give presentations to 19 environmental journalism fellows while on ������Ƶ’s Athens campus, April 18-22.

“We are especially pleased to present to our U.S. and international fellows such an impressive group of journalists, scientists and policy analysts. This is our first time dedicating our fellowship to such an important topic and we are delighted to have some impressive trainers helping us,” Kevin Z. Smith, executive director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism, said. “And, many of them have roots in ������Ƶ.”

The fellowship will begin with a roundtable discussion led by Kiplinger Program benefactor Knight Kiplinger, former editor-in-chief of the Kiplinger media company that gave America Kiplinger Financial Newsletter and Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine.

Other speakers/trainers will include: 

• Doug Haddix is an independent media consultant and former director of the national journalism group Investigative Reporters and Editors. He was previously a vice president for communications and director of the  Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio State University. He is a former newsroom editor having worked for the Columbus Dispatch, Scranton Times Tribune and Springfield (Ohio) News Sun. Haddix will discuss social media tools and tactics for covering climate change. 
• Amy Nordrum, (B.S.J., HTC, '10) is the current editorial director of special projects and operations at MIT Technology Review. She coordinates the annual lists of 10 Breakthrough Technologies and Innovators Under 35 and oversees the newsroom's copy flow processes, freelance contributions, fellowship program, and engagement team. She will talk along with Maria Gallucci on freelancing climate change stories. 
• Maria Gallucci, (B.S.J., HTC, '08), is the clean energy reporter at Canary Media where she covers hard-to-decarbonize sectors and efforts to make the energy transition more affordable and equitable. She was most recently a contributing writer for Grist and IEEE Spectrum, and was previously a staff reporter for InsideClimate News, Mashable, and Mexico City newspapers.
• Tom Henry, (M.A. ’94) is a longtime award-winning environmental writer for the Toledo Blade. His work has appeared in the Washington Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Dayton Daily News, Stars and Stripes, Yahoo News and on ABC Radio. 
• Sheri McWhirter is an environment reporter for MLive Media Group who covers climate change, energy, and infrastructure in Michigan. Her public affairs and environmental stories appear in a series of daily newspapers, including the Petoskey News-Review and the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
• Steve Mencher is a multimedia reporter, editor, producer and pioneer in podcasting, digital audio and production on the web from Baltimore. He spent a previous three-year stint in Sonoma County, California working as news director of PBS/NPR stations KRCB radio and TV and KPJK TV, under the umbrella of Northern California Public Media. 
• Henry, McWhirter and Mencher will hold a panel discussion on localizing climate change stories.
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