Bryce Gray: Introduction

INTRO:
With the Chicago Cubs’ championship drought dating back to 1908, the team’s fans are accustomed to waiting ‘til next year.
 
But after naming Joe Maddon their new manager this week, some fans are daring to hope that elusive title is in sight.

Bryce Gray took to the streets of Wrigleyville to hear their reaction.

OUTRO:
Those were Cubs fans weighing in on the hiring of new manager Joe Maddon.
 
Just over three months remain until pitchers and catchers report for spring training.

Cubs Vox Pop

ANCHOR: Climate change not only looms as a threat to the environment, but it will increasingly be a factor in igniting political unrest.
 
That was the claim made by Princeton’s Anne-Marie Slaughter, an expert on foreign policy, in a lecture at Northwestern Thursday night.
 
Medill’s Bryce Gray has more.
 
GRAY: At Cahn Auditorium, guest speaker Anne-Marie Slaughter painted a grim picture of an increasingly volatile world. She said climate is emerging as  a major force behind international disputes.
 
SLAUGHTER: “The government agency that is most worried about climate change is not the Department of Energy or the Environmental Protection Agency, it is The Pentagon.”
 
GRAY: Slaughter said that displaced climate refugees will serve as a catalyst for future conflicts around the globe.
 
SLAUGHTER: “The Pentagon has been mapping climate change flows for a decade because they know that when your land is no good, you move, and rarely in human history have your neighbors said, ‘Come on in.’”
 
GRAY:
Slaughter’s warning was largely echoed by a United Nations climate report released earlier this week.
 
Reporting for Medill, I’m Bryce Gray.

Climate change fuels political unrest

Bryce Gray is a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Prior to Medill, he broke into the field at the small-town newspaper in Polson, Montana, where he covered everything from court proceedings to high school sports and, of course, the possible existence of the local lake monster.

"This I Believe" - The Flathead Lake Monster

Bryce Gray is a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Prior to Medill, he broke into the field at the small-town newspaper in Polson, Montana, where he covered everything from court proceedings to high school sports and the possible existence of the local lake monster.