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SEJ's 23rd Annual Conference, Chattanooga, TN, Oct. 2-6, 2013

The excitement continues at SEJ's 23rd Annual Conference! Saturday kicks off with new tech cars & test-drives, the Game On! plenary, concurrent sessions, Diversity plenary, mini-tours, and wraps up with beat dinners & the River Rocks Festival. View Chattanooga: Growing the Green Way, shown during the Wednesday evening festivities. Find conference coverage here. Peruse the agenda, speakers, and more. Online registration is now closed, but walk-ins are always welcome.

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SEJ Guide to Diversity in Environmental Reporting

The Society of Environmental Journalists has published a new resource for journalists who want to address diversity concerns and practice more inclusive journalism. Authors Jennifer Oladipo and Talli Nauman created the guide, inspired by discussions by members of SEJ’s Diversity Task Force. Their focus is mainly journalistic practice in North America. Journalists who have not consciously addressed diversity in their work should find multiple entry points here. Download the SEJ Guide to Diversity in Environmental Reporting as a PDF (3.69 MB) or view, share and download here. A "print on demand" option is available at cost from MagCloud. Funds for this project were provided by a grant from the Gannett Foundation.

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Koch Dark Money Influences Environmental Politics

News broken this month by Politico revealed the existence of a Koch brothers fund that quietly handed out some $250 million to conservative causes during the 2012 elections. Under U.S. law, such groups are tax-exempt, can raise unlimited amounts of money, and do not have to disclose their donors.

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SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

Our Calendar lists professional meetings, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. Submit yours. Oct 8, 2013 deadline: The East-West Center in Honolulu is accepting applications for the Pakistan-United States Journalists Exchange, March 30-April 19, 2014. Pakistani journalists visit Washington, D.C., New York City and Columbia, Missouri. U.S. journalists visit Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.

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Juggling Chainsaws, Torches and Watermelons: How to Manage Multiple Assignments

10/15/2013 – In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Fall), environmental journalist Adam Hinterthuer (pictured, estimating the circumference of an old-growth tree) shares in Freelance Files his tips for staying sane while balancing a love of writing with responsibilities as employee, father and husband.

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WatchDog TipSheet

News Media Groups Urge Court To Open up Wild-Horse Roundups

10/02/2013 – In 2010, BLM denied Horseback Magazine photojournalist Laura Leigh access to federal land to photograph a roundup. She went to court, was rejected, then went to a complex chain of appeals. Now the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and other j-groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of photojournalists' First Amendment rights to cover government actions.

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Table of Contents: SEJournal Fall 2013

10/01/2013 – New issues of SEJournal are available to members and subscribers only. Non-members and non-subscribers can view the Table of Contents of the current SEJournal issue (Fall), read an excerpt, and get information on how to join or subscribe. Previous issues are publicly available.

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