Everything about Grist Magazine totally explained
Grist (originally
Grist Magazine; also referred to as
Grist.org) is an American non-profit online magazine that publishes environmental news and opinion articles. Launched in April
1999, Grist is headquartered in
Seattle, Washington.
Called "
The Daily Show" of the environment by
Newsweek and others, Grist has been cited in major media including the
New York Times,
BusinessWeek,
Washington Post,
Outside magazine,
Vanity Fair,
the Weather Channel,
PBS’s NOW series,
National Public Radio,
the Japan Times,
Fast Company,
ABC news, and the London Independent. Opinions by Grist editors have appeared in the
Boston Globe and the
San Francisco Chronicle. Grist features are regularly reprinted online at sites such as
MSNBC,
Salon,
AlterNet, and many more. Grist won the
Webby People's Voice Award for Best Magazine in both 2005 and 2006 as well as
Utne's Independent Press Award for Best Online Political Coverage.
Chip Giller is president and founder of Grist. Chip received the 2004 Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, from the
Tides Foundation in recognition of the vital role Grist is playing in increasing environmental awareness. Giller took first place in the 2001
AlterNet New Media Hero contest for his work on Grist and was one of five finalists for the Environmental Grantmakers Association’s 2002 "Environmental Messenger of the Year Award." Giller was previously the editor of
Greenwire, the first environmental news daily, and a reporter for
High Country News, a biweekly newspaper covering Western environmental issues.
Grist's taglines are "Gloom and doom with a sense of humor" and "A beacon in the smog".
Content and coverage
Grist offers in-depth reporting, interviews, opinion pieces, daily news, book reviews, food and agricultural coverage, green advice, and a popular blog--all tailored to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage its readers to think creatively about environmental problems and solutions.
Regular features include "Muckraker," a political column by Amanda Griscom-Little, "Ask Umbra," a popular environmental advice column by sage Umbra Fisk, the "Grist List," covering green celebrities and pop culture, as well as "Victual Reality," Tom Philpott’s column on food and agricultural issues. Grist also summarizes the day's environmentally related news events in "Daily Grist," available by email or on the web.
Grist has published special issues on biofuels
(External Link
), religion & the environment
(External Link), poverty & the environment
(External Link), the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the
Mississippi River (External Link), Hurricane Katrina, and the controversy surrounding an essay by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus called "The Death of Environmentalism."
(External Link)
All of Grist’s content is available free of charge.
Contributors
Grist employs a full-time staff of 18 and relies heavily on more than 100 contributors, including many of the most prominent environmental writers in the country.
Further Information
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