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The James V. Risser Prize is given in the name of the director emeritus of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists at Stanford University.
Risser is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote incisively about environmental issues and who has a particular interest in those issues as they affected the West.
The North American West shares some environmental problems with the rest of the continent, but many of its water, resource, land uses and wildlife issues occur only in this region. The James V. Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism, inaugurated this year, recognizes excellence in reporting on these problems by print, broadcast and online journalists.
The award is given each year for work published or broadcast during the previous year. The winner receives a $3,000 prize and participates in a public symposium at Stanford with journalists, academics and others whose work focuses on Western environmental issues.
The Risser Prize is sponsored by the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists and the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, both at Stanford University.
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