Photo by Deb Ryan
Becky W. Evans is an award-winning environmental journalist and educator. As editor of ThreeBeats Media, she uses multimedia journalism techniques to cover fisheries, environment and immigration issues while living in Massachusetts and traveling the globe. (All photos on this site are her own unless otherwise noted.) When she’s not reporting on oil spills or immigration raids, Evans can be found teaching writing and communication courses to undergraduate students at Lasell College and graduate students at Boston University. She is also passionate about teaching journalism in nontraditional settings such as The Eco-Stewards Program and the Freedom Forum’s Crazy Horse Journalism Workshop.
A former staff writer for The Standard-Times of New Bedford, Mass., Evans received awards for her coverage of a federal immigration raid at the Michael Bianco factory; a series about New Bedford’s underground community of undocumented workers from Guatemala; PCB contamination at New Bedford High School; and the economic impact of federal fisheries regulations. Her articles have been published in the Boston Herald, Cape Cod Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dayton Daily News, Austin American-Statesman, National Fisherman Magazine, Boston Magazine, Inc. Magazine and by Harvard Business School Publishing. Evans holds a master’s degree in print journalism from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, where she majored in English and economics.
Why ThreeBeats?
Fisheries. Environment. Immigration. Three topics of critical concern to the world, at least this journalist thinks so. Why? Consider this:
The world’s fisheries are key components of a complex and delicate marine ecosystem. They provide a wild source of protein to people around the globe and a source of income to millions of fishermen. But climate change, overfishing, nitrogen pollution and other human-made forces are depleting fish stocks, which in turn disrupts marine ecosystems and threatens economies and food supplies.
As the impacts of climate change continue to unfold on planet Earth, the environment is playing an ever-increasing role in all arenas of daily life from public health to business to politics. Rapid economic development and population growth are increasing pressure on the Earth’s environmental systems, setting the stage for future challenges from climate change refugees to water scarcity wars.
Globalization, economic disparity and natural disasters are contributing to rising immigration rates in developed countries such as the United States, where new immigrants are welcomed with conflicting messages. With more than 12 million undocumented immigrants living and working in the U.S., pressure is mounting for Congress to revamp outdated immigration laws governing everything from border control to citizenship.
ThreeBeats in the News
ThreeBeats Photo of EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is republished in the Fall 2010 issue of Pesticide Action Network of North America Magazine. Click here to view the photo on Page 8 of the magazine.
Reporter Leaves Paper, Finds Ways to Keep Reporting on Her Former Beats Click here to read Becky’s interview with Joe Grimm, published on Poynter.org on May 6, 2010
