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- The climate bill in Congress will impact hundreds of companies – some big in your area. Many are spending big bucks on lobbying. Here's how to follow the money.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:
Media Hype's Impacts On Disaster Victims And Endangered Species
By JAN KNIGHT
After a disaster, news coverage can amplify risk, create new health syndromes, study shows.
Disasters and their aftermaths can have repercussions that reach beyond the days or weeks that follow, and news reports can strongly impact public reaction to related risks, even contributing to increased reports of health-related problems that may not be linked to the disaster, a recent study shows.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:16th Annual Conference: Pre-Conference Workshops For New And Seasoned Journalists
SEJ's 16th Annual Conference, to be held in Burlington, Vt., Oct. 25-29, promises the same sort of story-producing tours, great speakers and informative panels that SEJ conference goers have come to expect.
But this year some pre-conference workshops – one a boot camp for journalists and the other at Vermont Law School – will offer new opportunities to journalists.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Hopeful Signs For SEJ's FOI Efforts
By JOSEPH A. DAVIS
That old feeling of helplessness is gone. The news media and public no longer see erosion of the First Amendment, the Freedom of Information Act and disclosure requirements in many environmental laws as inevitable ... and worse, unimportant.
Or so a recent vote in Congress signaled.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Platte River At The Crossroads: SEJ Regional Focuses On Spectacular Wildlife Migration
There we were, 21 environmental reporters, freelancers, students and professors, all huddled and shivering in an unheated blind on the Platte River.
We were waiting in the breezy, 20-degree cold for thousands of lesser sandhill cranes to return from feeding in the corn fields and roost for the night on protective sandbars. Each spring, the cranes leave their southwest wintering spots and stop in central Nebraska to rest and eat before heading out to their Arctic nesting grounds.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:No Matter The Name, The Only Agenda Is Pure Journalism
By PERRY BEEMAN
Some years ago, a board member or two suggested SEJ change its name.
Why? Because the phrase "environmental journalists" seemed to suggest "environmentalist journalists" to some, especially those who suspect the group has some sort of environmental agenda akin to the Sierra Club's.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:A Dozen (Or More) TV Stories To Sell Your News Manager For Sweeps
By VINCE PATTON
In Miami, NBC-6 reporter Jeff Burnside thought he had a great story about the restoration of bountiful seagrass beds. But managers weren't interested.
"Later," Burnside says, "I pitched a story about steep fines for boaters running aground." That story they liked.
Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:WV Reporter Uses FOIA To Probe Drilling Waste
Billy Wolfe, of the Clarksburg Exponent Telegram, learns more about the chemicals in the hydraulic fracturing fluid used by gas-drilling companies.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:Canadian Court Takes up Shield Issue
The Supreme Court of Canada will consider this week a request by the National Post, civil liberties and media groups to overturn an Appeal ruling that police investigations override the Charter guarantee of free expression.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility:EPA Puts Status of FOIA Requests Online
The browsable report lists the date the request was received, the date a response is due, and the status.SEJ Publication Types:Topics on the Beat:Region:Visibility: