The Knight-Risser Prize
for Western Environmental Journalism
The Knight-Risser Prize and Symposium are being reimagined to better encourage coverage of important environmental issues affecting the West. Please follow @JSKstanford on Twitter for more information and announcements.

The Knight-Risser Prize Symposium

The annual Knight-Risser Symposium seeks to forge active collaborative links between environmental research, education, journalism, and policy-making to enrich and support environmental journalism and make environmental research, scholarship and teaching relevant to the real world.

2010 Symposium

“The Crisis in Environmental Journalism”
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 4-6PM
Paul Brest Hall East, Stanford University
How can environmental watchdog journalism survive the crisis in the news industry? Amid buyouts and consolidation in daily newspapers, who will finance the kind of work typified by Knight-Risser Prize winners like Lewis Kamb, whose Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceased print publication in 2009, or the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, winners of the 2005 Risser Prize?

Further details to come soon. Follow @KnightRisser on Twitter to stay up to date.


Previous symposiums:

Risser Prize Symposium
January 27, 2010:
“Visualizing the Environment”

2008 Risser Prize Symposium
March 13, 2008:
“Environmental Fallout of the Cold War”

2005 Risser Prize Symposium
November 1, 2005:
“Water in the West: 21st Century Challenges in a 19th Century Legal Framework”

 

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WINNERS OF THE KNIGHT-RISSER PRIZE
2017
Hell and High Water
Texas Tribune, ProPublica
2016
Pumped Dry
The Desert Sun and USA Today
2015
Big Oil, Bad Air
CPI, InsideClimate News, The Weather Channel
2014
Sea Change
The Seattle Times
2013
The Killing Agency
The Sacramento Bee
2012
Perilous Passages
High Country News
2011
Dry Times
5280 Magazine
2010
Chain Saw Scouting
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2009
Logging and Landslides:
What Went Wrong?
The Seattle Times
2008
Climate Change Hits Home
San Antonio Express-News
2007
Blighted Homeland
The Los Angeles Times
2006
Squeezing Water from a Stone
High Country News