Food & Environment Reporting Network launches
November 29, 2011 | 08:08 PM | Filed in: Nutrition Environment
The Food & Environment Reporting Network, Inc., an independent, non-profit news organization founded to produce investigative reporting on food, agriculture, and environmental health, launched operations today.
“Our stories fall under the classic mandate of investigative reporting — to reveal corruption, abuse of power, and exploitation wherever it happens; to expose activities and subjects that the powerful work to keep hidden or which are simply overlooked by major media; and to give a voice to the voiceless," FERN said on its website, thefern.org.
Its first report, published today in the western magazine High Country News, investigates a successful citizen movement to halt pollution by New Mexico’s large dairy operations.
Future reporting will appear in newsmagazines such as The American Prospect and The Nation, as well as major daily newspapers, according to FERN’s website.
FERN is based in New York City. Allison Arieff, a San Francisco-based contributing columnist for The New York Times, is chairman of the board.
Samuel Fromartz, a former Reuters reporter and editor, is editor-in-chief He is the author of "Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew," about the evolution of the organic foods industry.
Ralph Loglisci is the treasurer/secretary and sits on the board of directors. He was the communications director for the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production and is now a project director at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for a Livable Future, where he provides technical assistance and scientific guidance for the Meatless Monday and Healthy Monday campaigns.
FERN is funded by The 11th Hour Project, McKnight Foundation, Clarence Heller Foundation, Columbia Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
“Our stories fall under the classic mandate of investigative reporting — to reveal corruption, abuse of power, and exploitation wherever it happens; to expose activities and subjects that the powerful work to keep hidden or which are simply overlooked by major media; and to give a voice to the voiceless," FERN said on its website, thefern.org.
Its first report, published today in the western magazine High Country News, investigates a successful citizen movement to halt pollution by New Mexico’s large dairy operations.
Future reporting will appear in newsmagazines such as The American Prospect and The Nation, as well as major daily newspapers, according to FERN’s website.
FERN is based in New York City. Allison Arieff, a San Francisco-based contributing columnist for The New York Times, is chairman of the board.
Samuel Fromartz, a former Reuters reporter and editor, is editor-in-chief He is the author of "Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew," about the evolution of the organic foods industry.
Ralph Loglisci is the treasurer/secretary and sits on the board of directors. He was the communications director for the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production and is now a project director at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for a Livable Future, where he provides technical assistance and scientific guidance for the Meatless Monday and Healthy Monday campaigns.
FERN is funded by The 11th Hour Project, McKnight Foundation, Clarence Heller Foundation, Columbia Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
