Eli Kintisch

Correspondent Mentor | George Washington University, Ted Turner Professor of Environmental Media

Climate video journalist Eli Kintisch is the Ted Turner Professor of Environmental Media at the School of Media and Public Affairs. Previously, he worked at PBS NewsHour, Scripps News, and Science magazine, where he writes as a contributing correspondent, covering climate science and the environment. He created and hosted Thaw, a series on the Arctic, for Vox and After the Ice, a series on Native Alaskan villages grappling with ice loss, for PBS. He has also contributed to the Washington Post, MIT Technology Review and Scientific American.

During an MIT Knight Science Journalism fellowship, he created an app to explore sea level rise with augmented reality and hosted an international art exhibition on extreme weather. A profile he wrote of atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis was featured in the 2015 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. His book Hack the Planet, published in 2010, was given a starred review by Publisher's Weekly, which called it a "fascinating wake-up call ... engaged but balanced."