For the first time, the winner of the National Communication Association (NCA) in Washington has awarded its prestigious J. Robert Cox Award for Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement to a Canadian.
Dr. Mark Terry, an Adjunct Professor of digital media and communications at York University in Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, was named this year’s winner at the 110th annual conference of the NCA held November 23, 2024, in New Orleans.
In the NCA’s presentation, they said “Dr. Terry’s impressive history as a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and academic evinces major contributions to the study and practice of environmental communication. Dr. Terry’s civic engagement and environmental advocacy have had an important impact on the global community; his work embodies the very spirit of the J. Robert Cox Award.”
Dr. Terry responded by thanking all his academic colleagues, his UN partners, and the 1,000+ young people around the world who contributed their voices to the climate policy process through the UNFCCC’s Youth Climate Report. “This award is shared with all of you,” he said.