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It was a busy second quarter of 2024 for Mongabay in the media, which was topped by news that two of our staff won Developing Asia Journalism Awards – these accolades in turn generated multiple articles in the press in their home countries of Nepal and Bangladesh for these two winning Mongabay features, respectively, including in The Business Standard and Online Khabar – congratulations to staff writer Sonam Lama Hyolmo and contributing editor Abu Siddique (pictured above). Freelance writer Nieves Zúñiga also received an honorable mention in the Solutions Journalism Network contest for this feature about Brazil’s Miyawaki forests.
Outside of awards ceremonies, our team also appeared at big picture events that were covered in the press, like features writer Karla Mendes who spoke during the World Press Freedom Day event in Chile hosted by UNESCO which itself covered the news, and Latam Journalism Review did as well. Senior editor Philip Jacobson was at the big Our Oceans Conference in Spain and was interviewed by China Global Television Network about his marine coverage, and other interviews included staff writer Fernanda Wenzel who appeared on the BBC show Outside Source to discuss the devastating flooding of her home town of Porto Alegre.
Senior staff writer Elizabeth Alberts was interviewed by the public affairs program “Community Watch and Comment” on the venerable Washington, DC public radio station WPFW-FM about her reporting on ocean health and overheating from climate change, and she also appeared on Sea Change Radio, which is heard on 80 U.S. radio stations, to discuss her coverage of coral reefs and climate change. Not to be outdone, contract editor Jeremy Hance was interviewed by the Talking Apes podcast, and freelance writer Alden Wicker appeared on the popular Fish Nerds Podcast to discuss her feature about bioplastics.
Mongabay regularly offers its writers and editors for interviews and speaking engagements like these, learn more and see a list of staff available for interviews here.
Also of note during Q2 was the high number of citations of Mongabay reports in newly published peer reviewed studies, from a Frontiers in Communication paper about biomass energy to a study on China’s Belt and Road initiative in European Journal of Development Research, a paper on trace metal pollution in Environmental Public Health, a study on mangroves in the Journal of Remote Sensing, a paper on Peruvian pesticides in the journal Agrochemicals, plus a study on irrigation pump use in India in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Finally, two new books published by academic journals feature chapters which rely on Mongabay reporting: “Debt trap in the Philippines” and another that tackles the topic of advertising frameworks, interestingly.
Numerous media outlets and organizations also chose to republish entire Mongabay reports, from the big McClatchy-owned daily newspaper Tacoma News Tribune to African Elephant Journal and Eurasia Review. News outlets are encouraged to republish Mongabay features like this via the Creative Commons, and can review the guidelines here.
Here’s a selection of publications and programs where the Mongabay team’s work appeared during the most recent quarter:
Africa Geographic, African Elephant Journal, Agrochemicals Journal, American Spectator, Annapurna Express, Asia-Pacific Research News, BBC, Bangladesh First, Brazzil, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, The Business Standard, Cambodia Daily, Carbon Brief, The Chicago Maroon, China Global Television, Christian Science Monitor, Climate Home News, Coffee Talk, Columbia Insight, Common Dreams, The Cool Down, Corporate Knights, Counterpunch, Courrier International, Crime News Today, La Croix, Daily Coffee News, Daily Kos, Daily Star, Daily Sun, Dialogo Americas, Eco-Business, Environmental Health News, Environmental Public Health, L’Espresso, Eurasia Review, European Journal of Development Research, FirstPost, Fish Nerds Podcast, Fort Worth Report, Frontiers in Communication, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Goats and Soda, Good News Network, Great Lakes Now, Grist, Gulf Today, Hatch Magazine, High Country News, The Hindu, IFL Science, IPP Media, The Independent, Independent Media Institute, India Blooms, India Sea Trade News, Indo Pacific Focus/Springer, Insight Crime, JSTOR Daily, Jakarta Post, Journal of Environmental Public Health, Journal of Remote Sensing, KALW-San Francisco, KPBS-FM, Khmer Times, Latam Journalism Review, Latin America Bureau, Media Kurakani, Mexico Daily Post, The Morning, Mother Jones, My Modern Met, NDMT News, National Observer, National Public Radio, Native News Online, New Hampshire Public Radio, Newswire International, Nigerian Echo, The Olympian, Online Khabar, The Open Notebook, Outside Source, Palawan News, Planet Critical, Probe, Pulitzer Center, Quillette, Radio Free Asia, The Real News, Republica Daily, The Revelator, Scroll, ScienceAlert, Sea Change Radio, Semafor, Shillong Times, Slate, Society of Environmental Journalists, South Africa Today, Tacoma News Tribune, Talking Apes Podcast, The Times of London, Truthdig, Tucson Sentinel, UOL, Undercurrent News, WCMU-FM, WFAE-FM, WPFW-FM, WSSB-FM, The Whole Story, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News, Your Call, ZME Science, and Zimbabwe Mail.
Banner image: Winners of the Developing Asia Journalism Awards at the ceremony in Tokyo, July 7, 2024. Mongabay’s Abu Siddique (second from left) and Sonam Lama Hyolmo (right) were among the winners. Image courtesy of ADBI.