Publication Items

"The Last Atoll: Exploring Hawai’i’s Endangered Ecosystems" [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Natural Resources [3]
Planning & Growth [4]
Pollution [5]
Wildlife [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Freedom of Information Sessions at SEJ's 2013 Annual Conference in Chattanooga [8]

On Saturday, October 5: At 9:00 a.m. SEJ FOI Task Force Chair Tim Wheeler of the Baltimore Sun will moderate a session on overcoming obstacles put up by agency press offices to reporters who want to interview government officials. At 10:45 a.m. WatchDog Editor Joe Davis will present a hands-on session with tips for sleuthing dam and levee stories using federal databases like the National Inventory of Dams and the National Levee Database.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Transportation [10]
Planning & Growth [4]
Journalism & Media [11]
Water & Oceans [12]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [13]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Freedom of Information Sessions at SEJ's 2013 Annual Conference in Chattanooga [8]
Chemical Safety: Right-To-Know? No — Not Exactly [14]

The system for informing Americans about the threats to their health and safety posed by chemical plants is seriously broken, a Reuters investigation revealed August 10, 2013. Facilities often misidentify chemicals or their location, or fail to report the existence of the substances. But there are tools to help reporters.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [4]
People & Population [15]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Health [17]
Disasters [18]
Chemicals [19]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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"Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [20]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [21]
Journalism & Media [11]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [4]
Wildlife [6]
Region:
Asia [22]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about "Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s 'Lost World'" [20]
"Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall" [23]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [21]
Journalism & Media [11]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [4]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Mexico [25]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about "Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall" [23]
Covering Sprawl, Science, and Chickens [26]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [28]
Disasters [18]
Journalism & Media [11]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [4]
Science [29]
Water & Oceans [12]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Covering Sprawl, Science, and Chickens [26]
Toolbox: Database Helps Track Broken Promises on Parkland Conservation [30]

Seattle-based InvestigateWest published a feature package last summer documenting illegal parkland conversions in Michigan, New York City, and Oklahoma. They could not cover all the other states — that was left for you to do, with the assistance of their database of some 40,000 federal grants under the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [4]
Natural Resources [3]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Government [31]
Economy & Business [32]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [33]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Toolbox: Database Helps Track Broken Promises on Parkland Conservation [30]
Texas Fertilizer Explosion Re-Raises Buried Hazmat Disclosure Issues [35]

News stories about the April 17, 2013, explosion of a fertilizer storage plant in the town of West, Texas that killed 15 people have so far focused on the plant operator's risk-disclosure failure, instead of the likely fact that government agencies knew the nature and magnitude of the hazard — or should have known. The bigger story is the regulatory failure — and industry's decades-long campaign to keep the public ignorant of the threats they face. Photo: AP/LM Otero/Available through Creative Commons.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [4]
Laws & Regulations [16]
Environmental Politics [36]
Disasters [18]
Chemicals [19]
Agriculture [28]
Region:
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [24]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJournal Spring 2013, Vol. 23 No. 1 [37]

In this issue: Special report on energy and climate change; first installment of new column 'Freelance Files' on goal setting; database helps track illegal parkland conversions; members cover sprawl, science and chickens; annual Sundance Film Festival report; and six book reviews.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [39]
Energy & Fuel [40]
Journalism & Media [11]
Natural Resources [3]
Planning & Growth [4]
Science [29]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about SEJournal Spring 2013, Vol. 23 No. 1 [37]
Are We Ready for the Next Superstorm? [41]

Francesca Lyman asks "What does Hurricane Sandy tell us about coping with human health and consequences of climate change?"

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [42]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [19]
Climate Change [39]
Disasters [18]
Environmental Health [43]
Health [17]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [4]
Pollution [5]
Region:
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [34]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Are We Ready for the Next Superstorm? [41]

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