News Briefs: March 21, 2019

Climate reporter will speak at U of I

Kendra Pierre-Louis, a climate reporter with The New York Times, will deliver the keynote lecture for the University of Idaho’s 2019 Oppenheimer Media Ethics Symposium. Pierre-Louis will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Administration Building Auditorium, 875 Campus Drive, Moscow. Her talk is free and open to the public.

Pierre-Louis’ talk is titled “Is Gloom My Beat? Reporting on our Changing Planet.” She will describe the challenges of covering the global effects of climate change, as well as the ways in which climate change already has begun a...