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Fracking Disclosure: Is the Data Half-Disclosed or Half-Hidden?

Fracking Disclosure: Is the Data Half-Disclosed or Half-Hidden?

After backroom lobbying by gas and oil industry groups, the Obama White House watered down the promised fracking-fluid disclosure requirement promised earlier this year — imposing it only after completion of the fracking operation, when the information may have little effect (such as public pressure on BLM to deny a drilling permit).

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SEJ's 22nd Annual Conference, Lubbock, TX, Oct. 17-21, 2012

SEJ's 22nd Annual Conference, Lubbock, TX, Oct. 17-21, 2012

Registration is open for SEJ's 2012 conferencefor members only until June 1st.  Don't delay; get your choice of the ever-popular tours and other limited-seating events. Texas Tech University is our host and SEJ member Randy Lee Loftis, veteran environment writer for The Dallas Morning News, is conference chair. See the draft agenda, lodging and transportation options, local enviro news, find a roommate, and more. Image: Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park.

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SEJ Member Spotlight: Wendee Holtcamp

SEJ Member Spotlight: Wendee Holtcamp

Houston-based freelance writer and photographer Wendee Holtcamp has covered conservation, adventure travel, environmental issues and science for magazines and websites since 1997. She offers an online writing class, teaching aspiring and established writers everything from improving one's writing through observation journaling to crafting killer queries to the business end of building a successful and lucrative freelance career. Next class starts June 2.

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SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

SEJ's Environmental Events Calendar: Featured Event

Our Calendar lists professional meetings, press conferences, awards/fellowships/workshops deadlines and more. Submit yours. May 30, 2012: Implications of a Data-Driven Built Environment, hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences, will look at the potential data pool for the entire real estate industry and draw out the value between data sets and determine what data should be collected in order achieve sustainability and market transformation goals.

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TOOLBOX: Data Journalism Handbook Released

TOOLBOX: Data Journalism Handbook Released

05/16/2012 – Environmental reporters with ambitions to do investigative projects using databases will find an enormously rich collection of ideas, tips, examples, and tools in the new book released by the Open Knowledge Foundation and the European Journalism Centre.
Web Tool Brings Documents to Life

Web Tool Brings Documents to Life

04/15/2012 – Read this Reporter's Toolbox excerpt from the Spring issue of SEJournal: Amanda Hickman explains how the web-based tool DocumentCloud, founded in 2009 with a Knight News Challenge grant, lets journalists engage with the public and knowledgeable sources. Use it to analyze, annotate, and publish the documents behind your reporting.
Table of Contents: SEJournal Spring 2012

Table of Contents: SEJournal Spring 2012

04/15/2012 – 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 (Spring), read an excerpt, and get information on how to join or subscribe. Previous issues are publicly available.

 

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