Air Pollution Top of the Agenda for Beth Gardiner's SIUC Visit

On April 17 and April 18, 2019, Pulitzer Center grantee journalist Beth Gardiner will visit Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) to discuss her extensive reporting on pollution in China and Poland supported by the Pulitzer Center. 

Gardiner is a London-based environmental journalist and a former longtime Associated Press reporter. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Smithsonian.com.

In addition to her Pulitzer Center-supported reporting, Gardiner will discuss her recently published book, Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution.

While at SIUC, Gardiner will lead classroom conversations in journalism, comparative public law, and political science courses, including "Writing for Mass Media," "Journalism Law," and "Editing."

SIUC is part of the Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium network