Publication Items

J-Groups Challenge Utah Ag-Gag Law on First Amendment Grounds [1]

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 16 other journalism organizations, including the publishers of two major Utah newspapers, filed a friend-of-the-court brief December 10, 2013, arguing that Utah's ag-gag law infringes on constitutionally protected newsgathering rights.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [3]
Food [4]
Agriculture [5]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about J-Groups Challenge Utah Ag-Gag Law on First Amendment Grounds [1]
Adopting Climate Adaptation Messages [8]

Special Report: Part Four

By LEE AHERN

Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [10]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Adopting Climate Adaptation Messages [8]
Host City for SEJ Conference Maintains Sustainable Attitude [12]

SEJ returns to Chattanooga, Oct. 2-6, for its 23rd annual conference, this time building on and highlighting the city's sustainability theme, which has entered its second generation and garnered worldwide recognition. SEJ President Don Hopey explains.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [14]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Host City for SEJ Conference Maintains Sustainable Attitude [12]
Animal Rights Activist Charged for Video Exposing Cruelty [15]

Reporting on abuse of animals is now officially a crime — at least under Colorado law. Animal-rights activist Taylor Radig was charged after she made public a video showing employees of a Colorado ranch abusing calves.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [3]
Agriculture [5]
Activism [16]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Animal Rights Activist Charged for Video Exposing Cruelty [15]
"Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project" [17]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [18]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies [19]
Journalism & Media [20]
Region:
National (U.S.) [21]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about "Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project" [17]
Toxic Tank Cars? There's an App for That [22]

When the Oregon government refused to tell her about oil trains, Eugene Weekly environment reporter Camilla Mortensen (pictured) learned about them from a train-hopping local cinematographer. Now you can roam the freight yards with your camera and know what you are looking at. And/or download the UN Number app.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Transportation [23]
Disasters [24]
Chemicals [25]
Region:
Northwest (OR WA) [26]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Toxic Tank Cars? There's an App for That [22]
IJNR Institute Inspires Reporters To Get on Their Boots [27]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [28]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [20]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [10]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about IJNR Institute Inspires Reporters To Get on Their Boots [27]
Freedom of Information Sessions at SEJ's 2013 Annual Conference in Chattanooga [29]

On Saturday, October 5: At 9:00 a.m. SEJ FOI Task Force Chair Tim Wheeler of the Baltimore Sun will moderate a session on overcoming obstacles put up by agency press offices to reporters who want to interview government officials. At 10:45 a.m. WatchDog Editor Joe Davis will present a hands-on session with tips for sleuthing dam and levee stories using federal databases like the National Inventory of Dams and the National Levee Database.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Transportation [23]
Planning & Growth [14]
Journalism & Media [20]
Water & Oceans [30]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Freedom of Information Sessions at SEJ's 2013 Annual Conference in Chattanooga [29]
Pennsylvania Blocks Report Criticizing Shale Gas [31]

Under law, Pennsylvania was supposed to publish a report outlining climate change impacts on the state by Spring 2012. But the Department of Environmental Protection says it is still being reviewed, and nobody will say when it might be published.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [32]
Climate Change [9]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [33]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Pennsylvania Blocks Report Criticizing Shale Gas [31]
Calif. Highway Patrol Sort of Backs Down — Questions Remain [34]

SEJ complained in an August 7 letter to CHP that the arrest of Willits News photog Steven Eberhard for attempting to document a protest was a violation of constitutionally guaranteed freedom of the press. CHP responded August 28, noting that its policies for news media access to the Willits highway bypass construction site had changed. However, several assertions in the letter are not true, according to Eberhard and a video of the incident. © Photo by Steve Eberhard: CHP arrests demonstrators Sept. 10, 2013, at the Willits, Calif., bypass construction site.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [3]
Journalism & Media [20]
Region:
California [35]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about Calif. Highway Patrol Sort of Backs Down — Questions Remain [34]

Special Report: Part Four

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