Cristine Russell
Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-4140
Fax: 617-495-1635
Email: cristine_russell@ksg.harvard.edu
Summer 2011
"CRISTINE RUSSELL: What happens at the intersection of media and science?"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By Joseph Leahy and Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
When Cristine Russell chose nuclear energy as the topic of the third seminar in the Belfer Center spring series, “Clean Energy and the Media," no one knew of the radioactive disaster that would unfold in Japan. Two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami crippled reactor cooling mechanisms at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the seminar's discussion with scientists and journalists provided valuable insight at a critical point in the crisis.
March 6, 2009
Washington Post Pools Its Resources
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Columbia Journalism Review
By Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
In the latest of many recent changes at The Washington Post, the management has announced a new plan to coordinate all health, science and environmental coverage paper-wide—from national to lifestyle—under a single editor.
March 4, 2009
Globe Kills Health/Science Section, Keeps Staff
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Columbia Journalism Review
By Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
This week, The Boston Globe stopped running its highly regarded Monday Health/Science section and began placing its content in the paper’s trendy new “g” lifestyle tabloid, as well as its business section. It is the latest casualty at the struggling but storied New England paper, located in what is arguably the center of the health, science, and technology universe. According to health and science editor Gideon Gil, the Globe’s nine-person specialty staff is expected to stay intact—at least for now—and coverage of everything from stem cells to climate change will still have high priority in the paper.
October 17, 2008
"Juggling Beats, Localizing Climate"
Op-Ed, Columbia Journalism Review
By Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
When it comes to tackling a big issue like climate change, reporters have their hands full getting a grip on the science and the policy options. To get help, twenty-eight print, television, and Web journalists from a variety of beats and backgrounds who were invited to a three-day conference aimed at arming them with the tools for writing about climate change in a meaningful way.
December 11, 2007
"Celebrities, scientists and polar bears, oh my"
Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune
By Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
What a difference a year makes. In 2006, global warming stories were still struggling for front-page attention. By 2007, climate change was the issue du jour and "going green" a daily staple in news stories about everything from home building to Wall Street banking. Much of the credit for this dramatic transformation certainly goes to former Vice President Al Gore and the UN panel of climate change scientists who received the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday.
Wikimedia Commons
January 5, 2013
The American Woman Who Wrote Equal Rights Into Japan's Constitution
Op-Ed, The Atlantic
By Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
American efforts to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have failed since the early 1920s. But, in 1946, a 22-year-old naturalized American citizen participating in a secret crash project in occupied postwar Japan succeeded in writing two strikingly simple but powerful clauses into the modern Japanese constitution that stipulate equality among the sexes as well as civil rights for women involving marriage, money, and family.
Wikimedia Commons
January 5, 2013
The American Woman Who Wrote Equal Rights Into Japan's Constitution
Op-Ed, The Atlantic
By Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
American efforts to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have failed since the early 1920s. But, in 1946, a 22-year-old naturalized American citizen participating in a secret crash project in occupied postwar Japan succeeded in writing two strikingly simple but powerful clauses into the modern Japanese constitution that stipulate equality among the sexes as well as civil rights for women involving marriage, money, and family.
Wikimedia Commons
January 5, 2013
The American Woman Who Wrote Equal Rights Into Japan's Constitution
Op-Ed, The Atlantic
By Cristine Russell, Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program
American efforts to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have failed since the early 1920s. But, in 1946, a 22-year-old naturalized American citizen participating in a secret crash project in occupied postwar Japan succeeded in writing two strikingly simple but powerful clauses into the modern Japanese constitution that stipulate equality among the sexes as well as civil rights for women involving marriage, money, and family.
