Our goal is for the CEC to become your trusted source for local environmental news. To earn trust, our reporting must be truthful, fair, and in depth. Telling the truth certainly includes finding the real story and getting the facts straight, but also avoiding melodrama and distortion of emphasis to gain attention. Depth means digging below the surface - reflecting how things are, rather than how they appear to be. Fairness is more complicated.
Journalists can give a voice to the voiceless.
With this, we must support an open exchange of views, even views some may not like. Facilitating open communication among all environmental players is key to our work. As a part of fairness, reporters must distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Although the CEC is dedicated to keeping members informed of each other's activities, this will not be my main role. Instead, I will be covering issues that are vital to the environmental community as a whole.