Putnam journalist wins award
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- September
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Andrew Revkin, the environmental writer for The New York Times, and Putnam County resident, has been named as a winner of the 2008 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Revkin won for his longtime coverage of environmental science, politics of climate change and weather changes. An awards ceremony will be Nov. 19 in New York City.
He writes a blog for the NYTimes called DotEarth: Nine billion people. One planet. In this online chat, he talks about balancing human needs with the earth’s restrictions.
In 1992 he wrote “Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast” (Abbeville Press).
He also wrote The Burning Season” (Houghton Mifflin, 1990; Plume 1994), about Chico Mendes, an Amazon rain forest activist who was killed. The book won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was made into an HBO film starring Raul Julia and directed by John Frankenheimer, which won two Golden Globes and two Emmys.
To read more about the award go to Columbia’s site from this link.
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