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When Bloomberg News<\/a> reporter Alex Nussbaum covered the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, he searched for stories about people, not policy.<\/p>\n \u201cI try to keep things on the human level and dwell on impacts that readers can relate to,\u201d said Nussbaum, an alumnus of Metcalf Institute\u2019s 2002 Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists<\/a>. \u201cOur most popular stories were ones that cut through mind-numbing diplomatic maneuvering over this phrase or that clause, and instead got to the heart of the matter: conflict between rich and poor nations over who should lead on climate.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s an approach he applies to other environmental stories as well.<\/p>\n \u201cLast year, we wrote a story about rising sea levels in Louisiana and we centered it on a geologist who\u2019d come under attack from state officials and the oil industry for highlighting the damage to coastal marshes caused by decades of drilling and dredging,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe told [the geologist\u2019s] story and let the tale of sea-level rise ride along with it.\u201d<\/p>\n A graduate of Cornell University, Nussbaum began his journalism career at the Pottsville Republican in eastern Pennsylvania. After a stint as an environment reporter for The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey, during which time Nussbaum reported on the Ford Motor Company\u2019s \u201cToxic Legacy\u201d with a team that won the first Grantham Prize for Reporting on the Environment, he joined Bloomberg News in 2008. Now, he focuses on climate change, science, policy and, politics, and the intersection between energy and the environment.<\/p>\n A native New Yorker who loves the outdoors, Nussbaum has always been attracted to environment stories. \u201cEnvironmental issues affect us all\u2013the air we breathe, the water we drink\u2013and often the most vulnerable people are the ones with the least power to avoid the effects,\u201d he said. \u201cI think those are the kinds of issues journalists have a responsibility to cover. That\u2019s what we\u2019re here for.\u201d<\/p>\n Nussbaum\u2019s desire to better understand and interpret scientific data, spend time in the field with researchers, and network with other journalists led him to Metcalf Institute. His time on Rhode Island\u2019s Narragansett Bay during Metcalf\u2019s Annual Workshop for Journalists gave him \u201cthe confidence and understanding to ask difficult questions of scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe ability to unpack the science for a lay audience is so important,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n As for the future, he said hopes to do more thoughtful, in-depth stories about climate change. He\u2019ll be heading to Paris later this year for the 2015 U.N. climate talks, from which we can expect more people-centered stories by Naussbaum about this complex scientific topic.<\/p>\nRead More Alumni Profiles<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Bloomberg News reporter Alex Nussbaum covered the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, he searched for stories about people, not policy. \u201cI try to keep things on the human level and dwell on impacts that readers can relate to,\u201d said Nussbaum, an alumnus of Metcalf Institute\u2019s 2002 Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists. \u201cOur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2195,"featured_media":9583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alum-hp","category-alumni-reporting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13734,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions\/13734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}