Publication Items

Shooting Fire’s ‘Natural Force’ [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [3]
Forests [4]
Region:
California [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Covering Wildfire Is No Longer Seasonal Work [7]

Deadly fires that swept Tennessee are harbingers of a new normal for these massive burns, driven by drought and climate factors to become a year-round, multi-region phenomenon. Our in-depth backgrounder offers dozens of resources, plus tips and ideas for improving your wildfire coverage.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Disasters [3]
Forests [4]
Journalism & Media [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
California [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [12]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [13]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [14]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Covering Wildfire Is No Longer Seasonal Work [7]
Watch List for Trump Federal Agency Appointments [17]

Sarah Palin for Interior secretary? Her name is among those being mentioned for top environment and energy posts in the incoming Trump administration. To help you cover the shaping of the new cabinet, the latest TipSheet runs down better-known and lesser-known candidates being floated for EPA, Interior, Energy and Agriculture department chiefs.

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [19]
Air [20]
Chemicals [21]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [23]
Environmental Politics [24]
Food [25]
Forests [4]
Government [26]
Health [27]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Policy [30]
Pollution [31]
Waste [32]
Water & Oceans [33]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Watch List for Trump Federal Agency Appointments [17]
Will Midnight Monuments Be Coming in Obama’s Final Days? [34]

The Obama administration has already used the century-old Antiquities Act to protect public lands more often than any president perhaps since FDR. Will the outgoing White House make additional controversial last-minute designations? Here are at least five possible locales to watch, in our newest TipSheet. Image: © Clipart.com [35]

SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [24]
Forests [4]
Natural Resources [29]
Policy [30]
Water & Oceans [33]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Alaska and Hawaii [36]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [13]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [14]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Will Midnight Monuments Be Coming in Obama’s Final Days? [34]
The Path to Better Investigative Science Reporting [37]

In the latest Reporter's Toolbox, Climate Central senior science writer John Upton defines investigative science reporting’s major role, and shares his personal nine ways to do the job better.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Forests [4]
Journalism & Media [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Europe [39]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about The Path to Better Investigative Science Reporting [37]
Men in Trees in Indie Films [40]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [41]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [42]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Forests [4]
Journalism & Media [10]
Natural Resources [29]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [43]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Men in Trees in Indie Films [40]
Committing to Collaboration: How Two Freelancers Pulled Off a Cross-Pacific Partnership [44]

Winnifred Bird and Jane Braxton Little, a former SEJ mentor program pair, describe (with humor!) the process of how they turned their shared interest in the Fukushima disaster's affect on forest ecosystems and rural communities into a successful writing collaboration.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [45]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [23]
Forests [4]
Journalism & Media [10]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [43]
Region:
California [5]
Asia [46]
Europe [39]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Committing to Collaboration: How Two Freelancers Pulled Off a Cross-Pacific Partnership [44]
J-Groups Call on Forest Service To Drop Permit Requirements [47]

A coalition of journalism groups, including SEJ, is calling on the U.S. Forest Service to make clear in its directives that journalists, documentarians, and media photographers do not need permits to take pictures in National Forest Wilderness or other public lands.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [48]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [24]
Forests [4]
Journalism & Media [10]
Policy [30]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about J-Groups Call on Forest Service To Drop Permit Requirements [47]
Chief Tidwell Directs Forest Service: No Permits, Fees for Journos [49]

"News coverage on [National Forest System] lands is protected by the Constitution," wrote U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas L. Tidwell in a November 4, 2014, memo to agency leaders, "and it is our responsibility to safeguard this right on the lands we manage for all Americans. Journalists provide a critical public service, and this agency will ensure their access in the pursuit of that public service."
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [48]
Topics on the Beat:
Forests [4]
Journalism & Media [10]
Laws & Regulations [28]
Natural Resources [29]
Policy [30]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about Chief Tidwell Directs Forest Service: No Permits, Fees for Journos [49]
17 J-Groups Join SEJ in Letter on Wildlands Photo Regs [50]

Eighteen journalism, photography, and First Amendment groups on October 1, 2014, wrote U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell opposing the proposal to finalize a directive requiring permits for "commercial filming" in Forest Service Wilderness areas. Tidwell has already said the USFS does not want to restrict journalism on wilderness lands, but the groups seek changes to regulatory language that would make this clear. SEJ is one of the groups.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [48]
Topics on the Beat:
Forests [4]
Journalism & Media [10]
Region:
National (U.S.) [11]
Visibility:
Public [6]
- Read more about 17 J-Groups Join SEJ in Letter on Wildlands Photo Regs [50]

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