Past Event: Jan Ellen Spiegel

Climate and Energy in the News: The Role of Local Media

The interview and Q&A will be moderated by Michael Oristaglio, Director Energy Studies.

About the Speaker

Jan Ellen Spiegel is an energy and environmental reporter. She is a long-time Connecticut-based journalist whose career has included radio, television, print, and digital reporting. She has won awards for her reporting on energy, environment, climate change and food and agriculture. In 2013 she was the recipient of a Knight Journalism Fellowship at MIT on energy and climate. Jan is a former editor at The Hartford Courant, where she handled national politics including coverage of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Her stories appear regularly in the Connecticut Mirror, and she has published also in The New York Times, Undark, Inside Climate News, New Food Economy, and the Boston Globe, and has reported for public radio stations WSHU and WNPR and elsewhere.