The Marjorie is Florida’s independent news outlet dedicated to social justice and the environment We are not a breaking news organization.
We know that to be a Floridian is to feel and face extraordinary environmental challenges. Impacts from the climate crisis, pressures from unbounded population growth, increasing tourism, intensive agriculture, extractive industries, habitat fragmentation, legacies of bad policy, and myriad other factors threaten our state’s ecosystems—and their abilities to support us. We also know that the conse
quences of these impacts are felt unequally and inequitably, depending on race, class, ability, access to resources, and other socioeconomic factors. Our mission is to report on Florida’s deeper human story, recognizing that the crises we face are not simple scenarios with straightforward solutions. We embrace the gray area, with all of its messy nuance and complex history. We believe that doing so helps break through the partisan noise, and helps Floridians make empowered, well-informed, and reparative decisions. As a woman-owned nonprofit, we prioritize underserved perspectives and feature overlooked experiences. Our name channels the fire, intelligence, and passion of Florida’s three iconic Majories: author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, conservationist Marjorie Harris Carr, and advocate Marjory Stoneman Douglas. We specialize in telling in-depth stories about Florida’s environment that consider human values as well as important historical and cultural contexts. As the stakes get higher, the demand grows for new and better ways to tell stories. We meet that challenge with an ever-evolving media landscape that is rooted in reclaiming Florida’s deeper story.
10/10/2025
Longtime outdoor writer, photographer, and fishing guide Tommy Thompson has spent a lifetime fostering love for Florida’s wild side. Through his writing, photography, and work as a trusted advisor, he’s brought the beauty and importance of Florida’s wild places—too often seen as land for the next subdivision—into focus. 🌱
In her latest story, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯, our co-founder and communications director Becca Burton reflects on meeting Tommy more than a decade ago through her work with Florida Sea Grant, a coastal education and research organization based at the University of Florida. It didn’t take long for her to realize that among those passionate about conserving Florida’s wild side, particularly in north Florida, Capt. Tommy Thompson was a household name.
Becca’s story captures how Tommy’s lifelong dedication to storytelling, stewardship, and connection has inspired generations to protect what makes this state extraordinary. ✨
Don’t miss this Saturday’s Florida Climate Stories panel in Tampa, featuring our co-founder and development director, Anna Hamilton. ✨
This in-person conversation brings together educators, researchers, and environmental journalists to explore how storytelling builds climate literacy, connection, and belonging across Florida communities. 🌴
There’s still time to join the week’s remaining free virtual and in-person events, from expert panels to community actions across the state.
🔗 Learn more and register: https://floridaclimateweek.org/
06/10/2025
🌿 Florida Climate Week™ (FCW) kicks off this week! is an inspirational week filled with expert panels to hands-on actions.
We’re excited to share that our co-founder and development director, Anna Hamilton, will be joining the Florida Climate Stories panel this Saturday in Tampa.
This in-person conversation brings together K–12 teachers, university researchers, and environmental journalists to explore how storytelling fosters climate literacy and belonging in Florida communities.
As the climate crisis grows, it’s also a challenge of imagination. One that calls on all of us to deepen our connection to place and envision ourselves as part of the solution. 🌱
The news of Dr. Jane Goodall’s passing hit us hard yesterday. 💔
Her life and legacy reshaped how we understand the natural world, and ourselves. From her groundbreaking research with chimpanzees to her tireless advocacy for people and the planet, Jane showed us that conservation is inseparable from compassion, justice, and hope. Her work touched the heart of our shared humanity.
Just last week, our contributing writer Marlowe Starling had the privilege of witnessing Dr. Goodall speak at the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit, and captured this image [second slide] of her inspiring yet another room full of people to keep working toward a more hopeful future. 🌱
At The Marjorie, her influence runs deep. She has shaped how we approach environmental journalism — with curiosity, empathy, and determination to tell stories that move people to action.
💚 Thank you, Jane, for showing us what it means to live in service of the Earth. Your legacy will continue in every act of care for our communities and ecosystems.
26/09/2025
🌿 A Florida Moment of Zen to start your weekend. ✨
Wherever you are, take a breath, soak in the beauty, and carry a little of Florida’s wild spirit with you. 🌊🌴
18/09/2025
Florida’s future is already being shaped by the climate crisis—from rising seas to stronger storms, hotter oceans, and shifting communities.
As a proud member of the Florida Climate Reporting Network, The Marjorie joins 16 other newsrooms across the state to tell these stories with depth, accuracy, and care. Supported by the Pulitzer Center, this collaboration brings Floridians critical reporting on our state’s vulnerabilities and resilience.
Miami Herald Inside Climate News WLRN Public Radio and Television WUSF Public Media
09/09/2025
📽️ Big congratulations to Reef Keepers Film, who just launched their trailer and crowdfunding campaign for 𝘙𝘦𝘦𝘧 𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴, a powerful documentary on Florida’s Coral Reef crisis and the dedicated scientists and community members working tirelessly to restore it.
Student journalist Noah Bookstein (Student News Watch) recently captured the story behind the film, spotlighting the grief, determination, and humanity driving coral conservation in Florida. It’s a deeply Floridian tale of resilience in the face of climate change.
At The Marjorie, we’re proud to uplift stories like these, where environmental urgency and human experience meet.
🏆 The Marjorie has been awarded First Place for Digital Independent News Website in the Sunshine State Awards! ✨
Presented by SPJ Florida on Sep. 6 at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, this recognition honors the best in Florida journalism. And we’re deeply proud to be counted among them.
At The Marjorie, we dig into the critical intersection of social justice and the environment, telling Florida’s deeper human story beyond breaking news headlines. From climate crisis impacts to legacies of policy and inequity, our work uplifts voices too often left out of the conversation and shines light on the complex forces shaping our state.
This award affirms the urgency of independent, nonprofit journalism in Florida. And the power of stories that embrace nuance, history, and human values.
Thank you to our readers, supporters, and community for believing in this work. This honor belongs to you too. 🌿
𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙
by Sachi Kitajima Mulkey and Ayurella Horn-Muller
In rural Florida, locals suspect a mining company is to blame for their flooding troubles. Residents are trying to connect the dots between hurricanes, high radium levels, and a mineral mining giant next door.
✨ This story was produced by Grist.org and co-published with The Marjorie.
22/08/2025
Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, is cutting $100M, closing print sites, and leaning on AI while shifting readers toward pricier annual subscriptions and pay-per-article options.
Moves like these point to a future where local news is harder to access and more reliant on automation, leaving gaps in the stories that matter most to communities.
At The Marjorie, we’re committed to filling that gap as a nonprofit reporting outlet, putting people and place first over profit.
𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚
As the federal government quietly dismantles key scientific institutions, Holden Harris writes from the front lines of a vanishing public service. His essay highlights the human cost of defunding science and the quiet unraveling of the systems that help us understand, protect, and live with the ocean. 🌊
Today we celebrate the life and legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, one of our namesakes and daily sources of inspiration. From her home in Cross Creek, she brought Florida’s landscapes and communities to life on the page, showing the world the beauty, grit, and complexity of this place we call home.
Her work continues to inspire our mission: telling stories that honor Florida’s people and wild places. 🌿
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The Marjorie is a woman-owned reporting nonprofit that promotes a greater understanding of issues related to women and the environment in Florida through storytelling and community building.
Florida is facing unprecedented environmental challenges. We see our state’s vulnerabilities in climate change, which manifest in climbing temperatures, rising sea levels, worsening storms and the spread of emergent diseases. Coupled with the pressures from unbounded population growth, increasing tourism, intensive agriculture, habitat fragmentation and myriad other factors, our state’s natural systems are in a precarious balance.
Now more than ever, Florida deserves a publication that contextualizes and casts a critical eye on the environmental issues characterizing our state.
So: a warm welcome to The Marjorie, an online publication that fills the niche for in-depth, thoughtful and sustained reporting on the state’s environment, from the inside out. Part-blog, part-news magazine, part-commentary, part-community, The Marjorie is the brainchild of three journalists and Florida natives, Hannah Brown, Becca Burton and Anna Hamilton.
Here’s a little bit about what you can expect from us:
We write about people doing environmental work in Florida
We infuse our own sensibilities, opinions and experiences through editorial work
We curate important environmental topics/issues/reporting in Florida
We consider environmental issues through specific lenses, be they historical, feminist or humor, to shine a light on new angles and perspectives
A crucial aspect of The Marjorie is acknowledging the role women have long played in Florida’s environmental movements. Our name is a tip of the hat to three women whose work helped define contemporary environmental advocacy: author and journalist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; journalist, feminist and Everglades advocate Marjory Stoneman Douglas; and conservationist and activist Marjorie Harris Carr.
We use the Marjories as jumping off points, guides and inspirations, and celebrate their commitment to wild Florida—but we also intend to explore and complicate their legacies to bring nuance to the discussion of what we mean when we say “environment,” to whom those spaces apply and how we can do better moving forward.
The Marjorie is dedicated to bringing people together in the name of protecting Florida’s lands, waters, animals and people. We invite you to join our community of environmental leaders by engaging with us and participating in the conversation.
The story of Florida’s environment is sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant. Wherever we go from here, The Marjorie will be there, too, documenting the progress and missteps, and offering insight.
