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The Short List

The Psychology of Climate Change Communication

The Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University has published a free, research-based guide for "Scientists, Journalists, Educators, Political Aides, and the Interested Public."

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The Copenhagen Connection

SEJ has an online clearinghouse for journalists available for free-lance assignment to cover the climate treaty talks in Copenhagen. Check it out if you have pixels for hire, or if you want to enhance your news organization's coverage of this important event.

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Take SEJ's 19th Annual Conference Survey!

If you attended SEJ's annual conference in Madison, WI, we need your feedback! If you didn't receive an email from sej-conf@lists.sej.org, contact SEJ for a link to the survey. Your feedback will help the SEJ conference team to plan an even better conference in Missoula, MT, Oct 13-17, 2010.

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SEJ's 19th Annual Conference Coverage

Multimedia coverage of events, plus details on the conference agenda and speakers.

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SEJ Publication HighlightsRSS

SEJ Joins Call for End to "Minders," Interview-Control at FDA

11/18/2009 – As USA TODAY exposes a culture of secrecy at FDA that caused schoolkids in several states to get sick because the FDA hid information about tainted tortillas, SEJ and other journalism groups insist FDA ends restrictions on staff interviews with press.

New Journalism-Science Initiatives Alter How News Is Shaped

10/15/2009 – Read this feature by Bob Wyss on two groups working new collaborative journalist/scientist news models, Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) and Climate Central. An excerpt from the current SEJournal, Fall 2009.

SEJournal Summer 2009, Vol.19 No. 2

07/15/2009 – Now available to non-members and non-subscribers! In this issue: Journalism "missteps" examined; students tweet Montana pollution trial; enviro stories snatch national awards, and much more.

 

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"Communities are harmed by what they do not know. A community can’t clean up a toxic dump, or remove a corrupt official or right any other wrong if its citizens do not know about it."


— Eric Newton