Publication Items

What’s Coming in Energy? Veteran Reporters Look Ahead [1]

What big energy issues will emerge on the reporting agenda for the year to come? To find out, the SEJ convened a panel of top-flight environmental journalists at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. Jan. 25, 2013.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Journalism & Media [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Other or All [10]
Policy [11]
Science [12]
Region:
Asia [13]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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SEJournal Spring 2013, Vol. 23 No. 1 [15]

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 [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [17]
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Journalism & Media [8]
Natural Resources [18]
Planning & Growth [19]
Science [12]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Climate Assessment Revives Memories of White House Science Suppression [20]

The release this month of the draft National Climate Assessment garnered many headlines. But little notice went to the fact that it was released at all. Earlier versions of this assessment of climate change's impacts on the U.S. were suppressed — and even "unpublished". But a few voices did take note of the Assessment's release.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [7]
Climate Change [3]
Science [12]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Open-Access Science Publishing: Good for Journalists, and Good for Public [22]

The suicide earlier this month of open-access activist Aaron Swartz brings again to the fore the ongoing difficulty journalists have accessing published scientific studies that bear on key current and future policy issues. Photo of Swartz, credit Flickr/peretzp.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [12]
Policy [11]
Government [7]
Activism [23]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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"Global Climate Change: A Primer" [24]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [8]
Policy [11]
Science [12]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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The Carson Effect [26]

William Souder explains how Rachel Carson's seminal 1962 work Silent Spring shaped (and still shapes) modern environmentalism (from his new book, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson).

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [28]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Health [29]
Science [12]
Wildlife [30]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Polar Bear Scientist Cleared; Interior Dept. Still Under Openness Cloud [31]

Five years after wildlife biologist Charles Monnett's 2006 observations of dead polar bears, believed to have drowned because of disappearing Arctic ice, Interior started an investigation of Monnett's science. The findings — partially published September 28, 2012 — were confused and contained no findings of scientific misconduct.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [32]
Science [12]
Government [7]
Environmental Politics [6]
Climate Change [3]
Wildlife [30]
Region:
Antarctica & Arctic [33]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Court Again Rejects Demands for Climate Scientist's E-Mails [34]

A Va. court ruled Sept. 17, 2012 that e-mails generated by climate scientist Michael Mann when he worked at the Univ. of Virginia were exempt from the state's FOIA. Mann has been the target of repeated attacks by climate change deniers due to his famous "hockey stick" graph of global temperature records and indicators.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [12]
Climate Change [3]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [35]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Are Meteorologists Environmental Journalists? [36]

The answer is Yes. No. Maybe … and it depends.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [37]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [8]
Science [12]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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Directory of Open Access Journals a Boon for Environmental Reporters [38]

The rebellion against commercial and subscription-only publishers over public access to articles based on taxpayer-funded research is gaining ground. The Directory — free, searchable and online — already includes some 819742, full-text, scientific or scholarly articles in 7885 journals.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [12]
People & Population [39]
Journalism & Media [8]
Government [7]
Visibility:
Public [14]
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