Four journalists who have covered the environment for The New York Times, Time magazine and the Boston Globe will discuss "What Has Happened Since the 1992 Earth Summit, How We Can Do Better, and What the Media Can and Can't Do" in a panel discussion on Friday, April 20.

The event will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. It is free and open to the public.

The panel discussion is cosponsored by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Yale's Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, which for three decades has brought distinguished reporters and editors to Yale to discuss issues of broad public concern. This panel of Poynter Fellows is the first to focus on environmental issues.

The panelists are Dianne Dumanoski, author and former Boston Globe reporter; Eugene Linden of Time; Robert Semple, deputy editorial page editor for The New York Times; and Philip Shabecoff, author and former reporter for The New York Times. They will discuss the forces shaping the environmental agenda, how presidential leadership affects the environment and whether environmentalism demands a rethinking of current notions of individualism, private property and unmanaged markets.

"These four individuals are among the greatest environmental journalists of our era," says James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. "With a new administration fresh in office in Washington and a second Earth Summit looming in the near future, this is guaranteed to be a stimulating and informative event."

Dumanoski, who received her master's degree from Yale in 1967, covered national and global environmental issues for the Boston Globe from 1983 to 1993. She was among the first to report on such global environmental issues as ozone depletion, global warming and the accelerating loss of species. She also wrote One Earth, a monthly environmental column for the Globe's Health and Science section, where she explored cultural, spiritual and psychological dimensions of the environmental movement as well as innovative ideas such as "green" taxes. She is a coauthor of the 1996 book "Our Stolen Future," which asserts that a wide range of chemicals produced by humans can disrupt delicate hormone systems and alter physical development.

Linden, a 1969 graduate of Yale College, has been writing about science, technology, the environment and humanity's relationship with nature in books, articles and essays for more than two decades. On the staff of Time since 1987, he played a central role in all of Time magazine's special issues devoted to the environment and wrote the main story for the magazine's first global special issue, "How to Save the Earth," which was published on Earth Day 2000. He also helped conceptualize and contributed to the international special issue "Our Precious Planet." He has written several books, including "The Parrot's Lament and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence and Ingenuity" and "The Future in Plain Sight," which was described by the Rocky Mountain News as "the most important book of the decade."

Semple, who graduated from Yale College in 1959, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his editorials on the environment. He joined The New York Times in 1963 and served as White House correspondent under Presidents Johnson and Nixon. He was the London bureau chief in the mid-1970s and foreign editor from 1977 to 1982. He then ran the Times' op-ed page for six years. Since 1988 he has been associate editor of the paper's editorial page. In addition, he carries the title of chief editorial writer, with the specialties of politics and the environment.

Shabecoff spent 32 years with The New York Times in a wide variety of assignments. He was White House correspondent during the Nixon and Ford administrations and served as the economics and labor correspondent in the Washington bureau. He was the chief environmental correspondent in the Times' Washington bureau from 1977 to 1991, when he left the newspaper to found Greenwire, an electronically distributed environmental news digest whose subscribers include the White House, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior, Energy and Defense Departments, and the U.S. House of Representatives, among others. Shabecoff is the author of many books on the environment, including "Earth Rising: American Environmentalism in the 21st Century," "A New Name for Peace: International Environmentalism, Sustainable Development and Democracy" and "A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement."

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