A newsroom built on the field record
China Ecological Environment News Agency Limited was founded on a straightforward belief:
environmental journalism is only as strong as the field record behind it. Our reporters keep
notebooks rather than summaries. They walk the same riverbank in spring and in autumn. They
return to the same village after a restoration project is declared complete and ask whether
the water is actually cleaner. That habit of return is what turns an article into evidence,
and evidence into accountability.
Our coverage begins with Field Reporting and Documentation, which
produces the dated observations that everything else depends on. From there we move into
Environmental Policy Monitoring, where we trace how rules are written
and enforced, and into Data Journalism and Maps, where raw monitoring
figures become charts and maps that any reader can interrogate. When a question deserves more
time, it becomes a Long-Form Investigation.
We also believe that some truths live in images. Our Photo and Video
Essays put communities and landscapes on the page with the dignity that plain text can
miss. And because a free press is a shared inheritance, our
Newsroom Training and Mentorship programme hands craft and standards
to the next generation of reporters.
The newsroom operates from 12/F San Toi Building, 137-139 Connaught Road Central, Sheung Wan,
Hong Kong (HK). From that desk we coordinate field stations in the Pearl basin, the Yangtze
reaches, the northern grasslands and the southern coast. Distance never becomes an excuse for
thin reporting. If a story needs a person on the ground, a person goes.
Readers come to us for the long view. We explain how a policy decision in one district
changes fishing hours in the next, how soil contamination in an industrial park reaches a
vegetable market, and how a species recovery programme either holds or fails after the
cameras leave. This is patient work, and it is the work we choose.