From the always insightful Joel Makower:
For all the media reports about a surge in 'green jobs,' one place we won't likely be seeing them is in the media itself.
The past few weeks and months have been devastating for environmental journalism. Just after Thanksgiving, Fortune magazine gave layoff notices to Marc Gunther, one of the leading business writers on corporate environmental practices (whose blogs also appear on GreenBiz.com), along with Todd Woody, whose coverage of clean technology has led the pack. (Gunther has been asked to stick around as a 'contributing writer' and again chair next year's Brainstorm: Green event.)
Over at CNN — which has been pushing hard its new Planet in Peril series — the network's entire seven-person environmental team, including stalwarts like veteran anchor Miles O'Brien and pioneering producer Peter Dykstra, was let go. Even the Weather Channel, which has been hyping its climate change program, Forecast Earth, extinguished the Environmental Unit that produced it. (It did this, by the way, while turning its normally blue logo green as part of NBC's Green Is Universal promotion.)"
(More @ Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward)
