SEJ 2009 Annual Conference

Good Morning, SEJ: Hundreds show for 7:30 am plenary on non-profit models for news

Whooping cranes, at the International Crane Foundation. Credit: Emily Gertz

Despite the early hour, there's a very good turnout this morning (a couple hundred at least) for the morning plenary on "Non-Profit News: A sustainable survival strategy for environmental journalism"  -- as moderator Dan Fagin suggested in his opening remarks, a testament to the troubled state of journalism as a business.  

The plenary is underway, with panelists Rob Walker, environmental writer at Voice of San Diego (and newly elected SEJ board member); Melinda Wittstock, founder and executive director of Capitol News Connection; Nick Penniman, executive director of Huffington Post Investigative Fund; and Abraham Lutsgarten, energy reporter at ProPublica.

Conference Speaker Video-Reports from Madison on Environment & Security

How can you use online video in your reporting?  Here's an example: a video report filed from the conference by Geoffrey Dabelko, a speaker on today's 'climate and national security' panel, for the Environmental Change & Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Follow Gore's keynote on Twitter with #SEJ [UPDATED]

Update: Wispolitics.com has a write-up of former Vice President Al Gore's speech; audio of his speech; and audio of the question and answer session.

Other coverage:

Gore, speaking in Madison, congratulates Obama (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Gore says climate change at 'political tipping point' (Wisconsin State Journal)

Al Gore Delivers Speech to Science Journalists in Madison (WISC Madison) 

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If you're not here at the SEJ 2009 annual conference to hear Al Gore and the other speakers in this morning's plenary, follow along with those of us live-tweeting the speeches.  

The twitter tag is #SEJ; there's a link at the top of the right column of this page!