Publication Items

Web Tool Brings Documents to Life [1]

Amanda Hickman explains how the web-based tool DocumentCloud, founded in 2009 with a Knight News Challenge grant, lets journalists engage with the public and knowledgeable sources. Use it to analyze, annotate, and publish the documents behind your reporting.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [3]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Technology [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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RTK Net Reporting Tools Still Sharp After Many Years [7]

The Right-To-Know Network has been around since 1989. Today, with a modern and searchable Web interface, it offers access to some data that reporters would be hard put to find anywhere else. Most important is its collection of Risk Management Plans — which chemical plants are required to maintain to prevent, prepare for, and respond to toxic disasters.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [9]
Disasters [10]
Journalism & Media [4]
Technology [5]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Dykstra Returns to the Calling of Journalism, Climate Change and the Next Best Story [11]

Bill Dawson has the "Inside Story" on ex-CNN science, environment, weather and technology executive producer Peter Dykstra's return to the journalism fold.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [13]
Climate Change [14]
Health [15]
Journalism & Media [4]
Water & Oceans [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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SEJournal Spring 2012, Vol. 22 No. 1 [17]

In this issue: Getting into the (Clean Water) Act; SEJ's grant program has real impact on reporting; indie enviro films at Sundance; election year buzzwords; sneak preview of SEJ's 2012 conference, Lubbock, Texas; web tool DocumentCloud brings documents to life; ex-CNN executive producer Dykstra returns to journalism; meteorologists as environmental journalists; SEJ members honored, produce videos, win awards and grants; and 5 book reviews! (Why wait 3 months for access to each quarterly issue? Get your Summer/Fall issue [2] now: how to join [18] or subscribe. [19])

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [20]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [14]
Journalism & Media [4]
Science [21]
Water & Oceans [16]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Mexico Moves Toward Federalizing Crimes Against Journalists [22]

The Mexican Senate on March 13, 2012, approved a constitutional amendment making attacks on journalists a federal crime — which would help journalists bypass possibly corrupt local police officials. The measure must now be approved by a majority of Mexico's state legislatures.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [23]
Journalism & Media [4]
Government [24]
Region:
Mexico [25]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Climate Change Coverage Not Only Dips in Quantity, But Also Shifts in Its Presentation [26]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [14]
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Iowa Outlaws Some Undercover Investigations As Other States Mull Bills [28]

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (pictured) signed the so-called "Ag Gag" bill into law March 2, 2012, making it a crime to obtain access to an agricultural facility "under false pretenses" — without defining "false pretenses." Does this apply to hidden cameras? Animal rights activists have often resorted to hidden cameras — and shared with news media photos and videos of shocking cruelty to animals.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Government [24]
Region:
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [29]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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So Now You’re A Freelancer. Here Are Some Very Important Things To Consider. [30]

Bud Ward covers topics of interest to freelancers, including cash flow, incorporation, health insurance, business expenses and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Exploring the Narrative Form [32]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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Documerica, Lost and Found [33]

Read about EPA's long dormant photojournalism project containing thousands of color photographs depicting a nation and its environmental problems in the early 1970s — and the new State of the Environment Photo Project this rediscovery has spawned, inviting participants worldwide to submit their work. By SEJournal photo editor Roger Archibald.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Natural Resources [34]
People & Population [35]
Region:
National (U.S.) [36]
Visibility:
Public [6]
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