Abstract
In 1940, before environmental reporting had a name, a former science writer for United Press International, Hillier Kreighbaum, who had left the wire service to teach journalism, decided to take a look at the field that he had recently left. [...] he found that one out of every fifty newspapers in the United States employed a science writer or editor; three out of every four were college graduates (compared to fewer than half of the prewar Washington correspondents); and most of were newsroom veterans.