Jeff Burnside
Jeff Burnside has been in the news business for more than 20 years; as a reporter, anchor or manager in cities such as Seattle, Boston and now Miami in the highly-regarded WTVJ NBC 6 Special Projects Unit. As an investigative reporter, Burnside has exposed the white supremacy movement, corruption, inefficient government, corporate wrong-doing and more. His coverage of environmental issues is his particular passion. He was elected to the national Board of Directors for the Society of Environmental Journalists, earned a fellowship from the Metcalf Institute, and won a Packard grant to cover the Int'l Coral Reef Symposium in Bali, Indonesia. He lectures at Stanford's Aldo Leopold Leadership Seminars and the Pew Institute for Ocean Science Marine Fellows conferences. He was recently selected as one of only 3 journalists in the country to received a Carnegia-Mellon University fellowship at the Institute for Environmental Education and Research. He served on a National Science Foundation commission examining climate change and the media, and the Yale Climate Conference in Aspen. He's the recipient of more than 20 national, regional and local awards including presitigious IRE, National Press Club, Clarion, AP, SPJ, and Murrow awards, and six regional Emmy's.

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