Atomic Reporters
Project Title
For a project to enhance reporting on nuclear security issues
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Early career journalists entered their profession when little attention was paid to nuclear weapons-related issues and without the formative experiences of the Cold War. With fewer opportunities or imperatives to learn the technical, historical, or political issues associated with nuclear weapons, this cohort of journalists is at a disadvantage when it comes to analyzing nuclear issues. With this project, Atomic Reporters will provide training and fellowships to early career journalists to help them better understand and focus increased attention on these issues. The project will bring together twenty five young journalists in a workshop in the University of New Mexico’s department of communications and journalism with fields trips to the Trinity test site and possibly the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The project will also include a networking component to connect journalists with experts in nuclear weapons issues.
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For a workshop and fellowships for reporters to investigate nuclear challenges
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
15 months
Description
Atomic Reporters will provide educational opportunities for journalists to learn more about new technologies and nuclear risks. Atomic Reporters will hold a workshop for journalists around the anniversary of the January 2018 false alarm in Hawaii, an incident in which human and technical error created widespread anxiety. Atomic Reporters will also support reporting fellowships on these themes. The project will allow journalists to develop a better understanding of how changes in technology and geopolitics have affected nuclear risk, and to share these insights with the broader public.
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For a workshop to train journalists ahead of the 2016 Nuclear Summit
Date
Dec. 10, 2015
Duration
6 months
Description
Atomic Reporters (AR) was created to support better informed reporting on nuclear issues. This project will support a workshop for journalists in advance of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit. The workshop, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, will engage twenty journalists from the Americas, Asia and Europe, including Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. It will introduce the selected journalists to the nuclear security measures that are being implemented at one of the world’s major ports, where nuclear and radioactive materials are frequently detected. Further field work may include a visit to facilities producing radioisotopes and storing nuclear waste. These activities will provide material for stories as well as background knowledge to provide context for the Summit process and nuclear security issues more broadly.