The Tiputini Project

Science Reporting in the Amazon Rainforest

Authors

  • Hamdi Issawi MacEwan University

Abstract

In May 2017, I travelled to Ecuador with a team of MacEwan University reporters to cover the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, a research facility located in the western Amazon rainforest. After spending a week at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito to liaise with academics, and a weekend in the Ecuadorian Amazon to visit the station and its staff, we collected enough material to produce The Tiputini Project, a magazine exploring the economic, political, environmental stakes of natural resource extraction in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Besides serving as the magazine's copy chief, I produced photography and video, as well as a long-form professional profile of the station's founding director, Dr. Kelly Swing.

Discipline: Communication Studies

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brian Gorman

 

Published

2018-06-20

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018): Student Research Day 2018 - Student Talks

Section

Communication Studies

License

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