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DocumentCloud: New Tool for Gumshoe Reporting [1]

If you do investigative reporting, you probably rely often on large numbers of documents to make your case. This new, free tool can help you manage the evidence in a way that supports your story and helps you move seamlessly from research to publication.
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WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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SkyTruth Launches Online Environmental Accident Mapper [6]

Reporters can now get a better picture of breaking environmental pollution events via SkyTruth Alerts on air and water pollution incidents, toxic spills, and more.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Pollution [7]
Disasters [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about SkyTruth Launches Online Environmental Accident Mapper [6]
New Environment-Related CRS Reports Available [9]

Congress still forbids the Congressional Research Service to release publicly reports that taxpayers have paid for. Thanks to groups like the Federation of American Scientists, however, taxpayers can read the reports online despite the charade.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Transportation [10]
Technology [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Government [12]
Disasters [8]
Climate Change [13]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about New Environment-Related CRS Reports Available [9]
Is FCC Slow To Reveal Cell Phone Risks? [14]

A World Health Organization panel finds cell phone radiation might present a cancer risk , and spotlights ongoing reluctance by the Federal Communications Commission to share publicly all the health information it has on the subject — and possible complicity with industry in hushing the research.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [11]
Health [15]
Economy & Business [16]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Cool But Unsung EPA Databases Can Help Environmental Reporters [17]

There has been a data renaissance going on at EPA for the past two years, and not all reporters have gotten the news that data-driven reporting has become a time-saver instead of a time-suck.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Government [12]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Cool But Unsung EPA Databases Can Help Environmental Reporters [17]
Toolbox: Data Science Toolkit [18]

If you spend a lot of time researching things on the Internet as part of your reporting, the online Data Science Toolkit, which is especially handy with geographic data, and a book by Pete Warden could make parts of your job a lot easier.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Science [19]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Toolbox: Data Science Toolkit [18]
Tiny Bits of Silver, Used As Bacteria-Eaters, Emerge As New Health Concern [20]

Rae Tyson reports there may well be a connection between odor-resistant socks and an emerging health and environmental concern.

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Backgrounders [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [15]
Science [19]
Technology [3]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Groups Challenge Canada's Secrecy on Breeding Proposal for GM Salmon [22]

A coalition of some 60 environmental, fisheries, and consumer groups want to know whether the Canadian government is undertaking a risk assessment before allowing AquaBounty's genetically engineered eggs to be grown on Prince Edward Island.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Technology [3]
Biodiversity [25]
Region:
Canada [26]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Groups Challenge Canada's Secrecy on Breeding Proposal for GM Salmon [22]
More Cool Data Tools from EPA [27]

TRI-CHIP assembles a great deal of toxicity and hazard information from many sources and makes it easy to search. TRI.NET allows you to construct complex queries into the Toxics Release Inventory database, and to map the results in ways that can be used for publishable graphics or layered on maps with other environmental and demographic information.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
Government [12]
Chemicals [28]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about More Cool Data Tools from EPA [27]
Create Custom Environmental Maps with National Atlas [29]

Dial up just one layer of data, or add layer after layer (from scores of topics) to create your own concoction of interlinked factors. The zoom function allows you to narrow or enlarge your geographic coverage as you see fit.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [30]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [3]
People & Population [31]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Create Custom Environmental Maps with National Atlas [29]

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