White House Met in Secret with Industry Before Frack Rule

April 24, 2013–Government rulemaking takes place with everything on the record in a public docket, right? Well ... actually not. EnergyWire reporter Mike Soraghan revealed in an April 12, 2013 story that presidential aide Heather Zichal met more than 20 times with industry groups lobbying on the proposed rule for fracking on federal lands.

Broken Promise: Database Helps Track Illegal Parkland Conversions

April 15, 2013–In this excerpt from the new issue of SEJournal (Spring), InvestigateWest's Robert McClure and Jason Alcorn explain how to spin the local angle about how parks built or improved with money from the Land and Water Conservation Fund are increasingly being illegally privatized or converted to something other than parks — including sharing their searchable database of almost 40,000 park grants.

Cairns: Messengers in Stone

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Changing the Language of Climate Change

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Continental Divide

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Covering Climate: Are Journalists up to the Task? More Important — Is Journalism?

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Covering Sprawl, Science, and Chickens

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Elephant Wrangling on the Energy Beat

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Global Environmental Issues, Journalism Star at Sundance

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Goal-Setting 101: You Must Lose a Fly to Catch a Trout

April 15, 2013–In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Spring), freelancer Christine Woodside shares her hard-earned wisdom about myriad aspects of weaving a life and business out of independent status in the inaugural column, "The Freelance Files."