James Fahn is the Global Director of Internews’ Environmental Programmes and the Executive Director of Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, a global community of over 15,000 reporters who cover environment and climate topics.
A journalist who has primarily focused on environmental, climate and science issues in developing countries, he is also a Lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches a graduate-level course on international environmental reporting. James has spent most of his professional career based in Asia, where he was a reporter and editor for The Nation, an English-language daily newspaper based in Bangkok, and hosted a Thai feature television show. His book, A Land on Fire, published in 2003, recounts the issues and scandals he uncovered while working on the environment beat in Southeast Asia.