Spring Pulitzer Project: Faith and Climate Change

April 2016, Civitas will be connecting the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and a number of St. Louis area schools. A special reporter from the Pulitzer Center, Justin Catanoso, will be speaking to students about his project on Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change.

If possible, students should read this story in preparation for Justin’s visit to their classroom:

The Paris Climate Talks Ended in Elation—Now the Real Work Begins, Say Faith Leaders

Here’s a brief bio about Justin (from the Pulitzer website): Justin Catanoso is a North Carolina-based journalist with 30 years of experience in covering health care, science, economic development and business. He is a Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Science-in-Society Award for his coverage of the tobacco industry in the early 1990s. He has published travel stories from the U.S., Italy, Austria, Thailand and Canada. After 13 years as founding executive editor of The Business Journal in Greensboro, N.C., he is now director of the journalism program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.