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NJN News Environment Correspondent Ed Rodgers Attends
The Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment
Trenton, NJ – Award-winning NJN News environment correspondent Ed Rodgers of Lawrenceville was recently selected to attend The Scripps Howard Institute on the Environment, an intensive five-day program of continuing education designed for 25 competitively selected environment reporters. Rodgers, along with fellow journalists, attended the subtropical training institute, conducted as a combination of field trips, visits to critical natural areas, and classroom instruction. Base camp for the program, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation, was at Florida Atlantic University’s Jupiter campus, with exploratory forays across the region – a landscape that ranges from water-logged to parched, absorbs spiraling population growth amid initiatives to preserve dwindling green space, and supports the state's signature Everglades ecosystem. On the road, participants were introduced to issues of relevance beyond Florida, including wetland restoration, water management, land conservation, invasive species, biological control, climate change, alternative energy, and the degradation of marine environments. Reporters had access to some of the top environment experts in Florida and other parts of the nation, including scientists, environmental lawyers, government regulators and water managers.
In addition to reporting on the environment for NJN News, Rodgers produces NJN’s weekly public affairs programs: On the Record and Reporters Roundtable with Michael Aron, and produces election night coverage, debates and other public affairs specials. This past year, Rodgers produced Drought & Deluge: The New Weather, a documentary that examined the impact of storm severity and climate change on New Jersey. Drawn from a three-part NJN News series exploring this topic, the first half of this one-hour program studied how global warming and changing weather patterns will affect New Jersey today and into the future. During the second half of the program, a discussion was held with Commissioner Lisa Jackson, NJ Department of Environmental Protection; Captain Jerome Hatfield, Executive Officer of the Emergency Management Section of the New Jersey State Police; and Associate Professor Anthony Broccoli, Climatologist at Rutgers University, Cook College.
Rodgers has produced documentaries on the return of New Jersey's black bear population and the world series of birding, which takes place in New Jersey each year. He also broke the story about mercury contamination in fresh water fish in 1994 that lead to a permanent advisory on consumption of these fish.
Rodgers joined NJN in 1985 as a writer after working as a reporter at radio station WADB in Point Pleasant and freelance reporter for the UPI Radio Network. He has worked as assignment editor at NJN News in both its South Jersey and Trenton bureaus. In 2004, the Society of Environmental Journalists honored Rodgers with an award for his NJN beat reporting at its Third Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment at the society's annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rodgers was recognized for the solid construction, exceptional story choice and consistent quality of his reporting on environmental issues. The judges hailed this veteran journalist for producing stories that matter in a state with a unique combination of urban, suburban and parkland issues. In 1996, Rodgers earned an Environmental Quality Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the consistency and quality of his environmental coverage on NJN News. Rodgers won the 1995 Mid-Atlantic Emmy for best newscast for his story about President Clinton's visit to a New Jersey Superfund Site.
NJN News airs Monday through Friday at 6 pm, 7:30 pm and 11 pm. On the Record airs on Sundays at 9 am and 11 am. Reporters Roundtable airs on Friday nights at 6:30 pm and Sundays at 10 am. For a complete list of NJN programs and broadcast times, visit njn.net.
NJN is available on all New Jersey cable systems, satellite systems, and Time Warner Cable channel 750 in NYC.
NJN programs are also available via web cast and pod cast at njn.net after the original broadcast.
Additionally, NJN programs are repeated on NJN’s JerseyVision available on Comcast Digital Cable in New Jersey.
(Check http://www.njn.net/digital/schedule.html for detailed listings.)
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