Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist

I’m an independent journalist who covers international environmental issues in the public interest.

My work has been published in publications around the world including  National Geographic, The Guardian (UK), Sunday Times, New Scientist, Al Jazeera, Earth Island Journal, The Toronto Star, AlterNet, Common Dreams, and Straight Goods News.

I’m also the senior science and environment correspondent at IPS,  Inter Press Service News Agency the world’s largest not-for-profit news agency.

Multiple environmental crisis represent “the greatest challenge in the history of our species”

– Thomas Lovejoy, professor, George Mason University,  former chief scientist of the World Bank

Despite the importance of environmental issues, media have slashed their coverage of environmental issues. It is impossible to make a living as a freelance environmental journalist. 

Swiss journalist Daniel Wermus in 2010 article: “Stephen Leahy, a Canadian, and one of the world’s best-known investigative reporters on environmental issues, has launched a challenge:

if corporations won’t pay for the news, then it is up to communities and the public to fill the gap.“

Since for-profit corporate media won’t pay for environmental journalism in the public interest then I am hoping people will.

In 2009 I launched Community Supported Environmental Journalism. In exchange for producing articles about important issues that millions will read*, I am asking people to provide some support. Just $10 a month helps guarantee informative and useful articles like the ones on this site will continue to be written. All supporters receive a personal, one-page weekly newsletter. Without your support I can’t work for all of us — Stephen

*Yes, millions of readers. When I write an article for IPS  it is used in hundreds of newspapers and magazines in different languages around the world. That’s great but unfortunately I only get paid $175 even if it took a week to research and write the article. Many of my articles are also reprinted by news websites such as Reuters AlertNet, the Guardian, Al Jazeera, AlterNet, Common Dreams, Truthout,  InfoSud, Straightgoods.com and others. None of these pay me for this reuse.

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– E. Ann Clark, Associate Professor, University of Guelph

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