Grist (magazine)

Grist
Web address grist.org
Type of site
 Online magazine
Created by Staff writers
Launched April 1999
Alexa rank
 negative increase 16,504 (April 2014)[1]

Grist (originally Grist Magazine; also referred to as Grist.org) is an American non-profit online magazine that has been publishing environmental news and commentary since 1999. Grist's taglines are "Gloom and doom with a sense of humor" and "A beacon in the smog". Grist is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Content and coverage

Grist offers reporting, interviews, opinion pieces, daily news, book reviews, food and agricultural coverage, and green advice. Its stated mission is "to inform, entertain, provoke, and encourage its readers to think creatively about environmental problems and solutions."

Regular features include "Ask Umbra," an environmental advice column by Umbra Fisk and the "Grist List," covering green celebrities and pop culture. Grist also summarizes the day's environmentally related news events in daily and weekly email newsletters.

Main writers include David Roberts, Lisa Hymas, and Sarah Goodyear.[2]

In an article for Time magazine, Eric Roston, a Grist contributor,[3] referred to Grist as, "The Colbert Report of climate change, The Daily Show of deforestation, the Oprah of oil dependency -- except with real reporting and analytical journalism."[4]

Founder

Chip Giller is president and founder of Grist. Giller received the Heinz Award for founding Grist in 2009.[5] In 2004, he received the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, from the Tides Foundation in recognition of the role Grist is playing in increasing environmental awareness.[6] Giller took first place in the 2001 AlterNet New Media Hero contest for his work on Grist[7] and was one of five finalists for the Environmental Grantmakers Association's 2002 "Environmental Messenger of the Year Award." Giller was previously the editor of Greenwire, the first environmental news daily, and a reporter for High Country News, a biweekly newspaper covering Western environmental issues.

Charity

Grist is registered as a non-profit 501C3 business entity.[8] For fiscal year 2011, Grist reported revenues of $3,700,490, expenses of $3,022,290, and total assets of $2,028,447.[9][10]

Awards and accolades

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Grist.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ "Grist.org Site Staff Bios".
  3. ↑ Roston, Eric. "Eric Roston". Grist. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  4. ↑ Roston, Eric (2008-04-17). "Grist - The Environment". TIME. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  5. ↑ "Chip Giller". The Heinz Awards. 2009-11-27. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  6. ↑ "Previous Winners". Tides. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Writer Guidelines (2001-02-21). "AlterNet's "New Media Heroes" Usher in Post-Dot-com Era". Alternet. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  8. ↑ "Charities: Charitable Solicitations Program Charity Profile Report". Sos.wa.gov. 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2013-04-17.
  9. ↑ "Charity Navigator Rating - GRIST". Charitynavigator.org. Retrieved 2013-04-17.
  10. ↑ "Grist Magazine - Charity Reports - Give.org". Bbb.org. Retrieved 2013-04-17.
  11. ↑ Zibby Wilder (2010-06-02). "And the Winners Are... - Page 1 - News - Seattle". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  12. ↑ "THE Voice of the Independent Publishing Industry". Independent Publisher. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  13. ↑ "Winners of the 2003 Utne Independent Press Awards". Utne.com. Retrieved 2012-12-05.
  14. ↑ "Still Cool Archive". Cool Site of the Day. Retrieved 2012-12-05.

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