Eli Kintisch

About

I’m the Turner Professor at George Washington University, where I work with great students exploring climate reporting on video, the history of environmental media, and how the media landscape for sustainability journalism is changing fast. I'm also a DC-based video producer who’s been a policy and science reporter in Washington and reported from the Arctic, West Pacific and Middle East. Most recently I produced science and tech stories for THE WHY, a national explanatory journalism show on Scripps News. Previously I was with PBS NewsHour as a producer on the Student Reporting Labs team, mentoring HS journalists around the country. Videos I've produced or written have earned more than 2.5 million views on YouTube. These include a three-part series in 2018 on an Arctic voyage for Vox and explainer videos for PBS Digital Studios, the American Chemical Society, Science magazine and the Packard Foundation. Writing scripts and producing them are my strongest skills, but I'm proficient editing in Premiere or Final Cut, shooting on Canon, Panasonic and Sony DSLRs, and basic lighting setups for interviews or standups. As a senior science and policy reporter, I have covered environmental research and policy, earth science and the Arctic. In Washington, I've reported on the Supreme Court, the federal budget, law enforcement and international conflicts. Overseas reporting adventures, meanwhile, have taken me from melting glaciers in Greenland to eroding permafrost in Siberia to threatened tropical reefs in Fiji.