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Samantha Fields

Samantha Fields

Samantha Fields is an award-winning public radio producer and reporter. Most recently, she produced the NPR Politics Podcast in Washington, D.C. She got her start in journalism as a reporter for a community paper, The Wellesley Townsman, and her start in radio as an intern and freelance producer at The Takeaway at WNYC. Since then, she has worked at Vermont Public Radio, Maine Public Radio and NPR’s midday show, Here & Now. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Navigator

Five tips for localizing climate change stories

This column originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here.  Samantha Fields is...

Nov 13, 2018
Americas

“‘Where do we go now?” Taking climate change beyond science class

This is the third story in "Teaching the Future," a three-part series published originally in WCAI. In high school in...

Oct 31, 2018
Environment

Teaching climate change as something ‘happening right here’

This is the second story in "Teaching the Future," a three-part series published originally in WCAI. The words “climate change”...

Oct 26, 2018
Audio

In many schools, ‘climate change is playing catch-up’

This is the first story in "Teaching the Future," a three-part series published originally in WCAI.  If the world...

Oct 25, 2018

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