Jeff Burnside has been a television news reporter, producer, anchor and news manager in Seattle and Boston and is now in Miami's highly regarded WTVJ Special Projects Unit.

Burnside produces and reports environmental news, investigative reports, and long-form stories. With Jean Michel Cousteau, Burnside created and launched the NBC-6 award-winning and popular "EcoWatch" environmental news segment, the only one like it in the country.

He has been a Fellow at the Metcalf Institute for Environmental Reporting at the University of Rhode Island and has been an invited speaker at the Pew Marine Fellows conference for three years and at the Aldo Leopold Leadership Seminar for two years. Burnside won a Packard/Seaweb grant to cover the International Coral Reef Symposium in Bali, Indonesia, and the Marine Conservation and Biology conference in San Francisco. He is a member of the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation’s (RTNDF) Environmental Advisory Panel.

Burnside has worked in public affairs and politics, writing policy papers, advising candidates for Congress and for Governor, and as a media consultant for think tanks and nonprofits. He is a frequent speaker on issues including media ethics, marine science coverage, and the environment.

A graduate of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communications at Washington State University, Burnside has won more than 20 awards, including a 2003 regional Emmy.