Publication Items

Ignoring the Elephant in the (News)room [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Regional Gathering Fuels New Approaches to Storytelling [6]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Regional Gathering Fuels New Approaches to Storytelling [6]
All in One Place at One Time [8]

Society of Environmental Journalists’ founder Jim Detjen and I were sitting together at an SEJ gathering not long ago wondering about the size of the collective readership/viewer/listenership of all of SEJ’s members. In essence, what is our potential reach? We calculated that it must be in the tens of millions. That’s power to help set the national dialogue and, in many cases, the global dialogue. Read more from SEJ President Jeff Burnside.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about All in One Place at One Time [8]
On Our Watch, Say Goodbye to Tigers [10]

The quarterly SEJ President's Report in SEJournal normally examines an issue important to the future health of the Society of Environmental Journalists and what you as a member might do about it. This time, in the just-released Winter 2015 issue, Jeff Burnside's report examines a different set of responsibilities: whether journalism is asleep at the wheel in failing to sufficiently cover a looming, irreversible environmental issue. Our most iconic and beloved wild species are now on the precipice of extinction, functionally if not literally.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about On Our Watch, Say Goodbye to Tigers [10]
Fledgling to Full Grown: SEJ’s Impact on Environmental Journalism [11]

With SEJ currently celebrating its 25th anniversary year, we asked some of the society’s founders — among them luminaries in the environmental journalism profession — to share their thoughts on what the organization has meant to the field, where SEJ is going next and what they see as the big environmental stories of our time. Here are their insights.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [12]
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Fledgling to Full Grown: SEJ’s Impact on Environmental Journalism [11]
Access to Places: A Few Basics for Journalists [13]

The University of Missouri "safe space" incident on Nov 9, 2015 rekindled questions and debate about journalists' First Amendment right of access to spaces. One of the best practical guides to law on this issue is the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press publication, "A Reporter's Field Guide."

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [4]
Laws & Regulations [15]
Region:
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [16]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Access to Places: A Few Basics for Journalists [13]
SEJournal Summer 2007, Vol. 17 No. 2 [17]

In this issue: Taking readers on a journey; award winner focuses on eco damage being done now; investigative reporting can produce a ‘higher obligation’; effects of climate change on journalism; report probes multiple sources of global mercury pollution; studying smaller newspapers; basing coverage on scientific evidence; farm bill’s future environmental impacts; book reviews; and more.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [19]
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Journalism & Media [4]
Pollution [21]
Science [22]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about SEJournal Summer 2007, Vol. 17 No. 2 [17]
Controversial Newspaper Campaign Takes on Climate ‘Fatalism’ [23]

The Guardian's James Randerson explains how his newspaper came to launch its 'Keep it in the Ground' campaign, backing the global fossil fuel divestment movement — and how, rather than constraining the paper journalistically, the project provided a connection to readers that goes far beyond a click on a website.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [12]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Journalism & Media [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Controversial Newspaper Campaign Takes on Climate ‘Fatalism’ [23]
53 Journalism Groups Ask Obama To End Press Office Blockades [26]

SEJ, which has complained about press-office restrictions for years, joined over 50 other journalism groups in signing an Aug 10, 2015 letter requesting government transparency — again. The groups had sent a letter to the White House in July 2014, a followup in Aug 2014, resulting in a non-response response from the WH later that month.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [27]
Journalism & Media [4]
Policy [28]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about 53 Journalism Groups Ask Obama To End Press Office Blockades [26]
Men in Trees in Indie Films [29]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [24]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [30]
Disasters [31]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Forests [32]
Journalism & Media [4]
Natural Resources [33]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [34]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Men in Trees in Indie Films [29]

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