Publication Items

Grant Gives Reporter Time To Immerse in Sewage Story [1]

The “underworld” of sewage treatment had fascinated one journalist for years. But it was only after winning a reporting grant that Christine Woodside had the luxury of spending dozens of hours to focus on how one old, malfunctioning plant left a local community appalled and angered. Woodside shares the details in the latest installment of SEJournal’s newest column, FEJ StoryLog.

SEJ Publication Types:
FEJ StoryLog [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Journalism & Media [5]
People & Population [6]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Reporter, Wearing Two Hats, Journeys Into Filmmaking [13]

For Boston Globe environment reporter David Abel, a side project shooting video of the 2013 Boston Marathon sealed his passion for nonfiction filmmaking, one that has since yielded four high-profile nature documentaries. In EJ InSight, Abel traces that path and details how he balances his environment reporting and filmmaking. Plus, view images from Abel’s documentary work [14].

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EJ InSight [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [16]
Environmental Health [4]
Fish & Fisheries [17]
Journalism & Media [5]
Natural Resources [18]
Water & Oceans [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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For Waste Industry, PFAS Disposal Leads to Controversy, Regulation, Mounting Costs [20]

The toxic compounds known as PFAS are causing a crisis in the waste and recycling industry, which faces mounting regulation and litigation over handling its presence in the waste stream. One reporter on the PFAS front lines explains the industry’s dilemma, as well as the challenges of covering the story and how a financial prism led to important insights into industry’s response.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [22]
Economy & Business [23]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [5]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [26]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
California [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
Northwest (OR WA) [29]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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SEJ Grant Program Gives Boost to Environmental Coverage [30]

With this issue, SEJournal launches its newest column — FEJ StoryLog. The bimonthly feature will bring you the lessons of journalists who have been able to pursue their public service reporting work through the largesse of the Fund for Environmental Journalism. Column editor Carolyn Whetzel tells the story of the grant program and its successes. And watch in coming weeks for our first grantee StoryLog, from reporter Christine Woodside.

SEJ Publication Types:
FEJ StoryLog [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [31]
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Pollution [7]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
International [34]
Asia [35]
Europe [36]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Youth Activist Groups Push Climate Into Voting Booths [37]

A key Democratic primary win in Massachusetts last week appears to portend a weather change in climate politics, with youth groups helping propel the issue into November’s polling places. Reporter’s Toolbox helps environmental journalists cover the shift by cataloging some of the biggest youth climate activist groups with local chapters and large geographic reach.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [16]
Environmental Politics [39]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
International [34]
Europe [36]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Bringing Stories Home Under Lockdown, With Remote Video Interviews [41]

They’ve long been a staple of the news business. But now, with the pandemic continuing to keep journalists from their subjects, remote video interviews have become an essential tool. And even newbie video reporters can quickly learn the basics. Science video producer Eli Kintisch shares a quick eight-step remote video setup and some simple tricks of the trade, in this SEJournal how-to.

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [21]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [31]
Air [42]
Biodiversity [43]
Chemicals [22]
Climate Change [16]
Consumer [44]
Disasters [32]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [45]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [39]
Environmental Studies [46]
Fish & Fisheries [17]
Food [47]
Forests [48]
Government [49]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [5]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [26]
Natural Resources [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Other or All [50]
People & Population [6]
Planning & Growth [51]
Policy [52]
Pollution [7]
Science [53]
Technology [54]
Transportation [55]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Alaska and Hawaii [56]
California [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [57]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [58]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [59]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
Northwest (OR WA) [29]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
International [34]
Canada [60]
Mexico [61]
Africa [62]
Antarctica & Arctic [63]
Asia [35]
Australia & Oceania [64]
Central America & the Caribbean [65]
Europe [36]
Middle East [66]
South America [67]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Go-To Books for Understanding and Surviving a Pandemic [68]

If you’re looking for perspective in your reporting connected with the coronavirus story, it might help to turn to the extensive library of non-fiction books offering insight into disease and epidemics. Our own Bob Wyss offers a helping hand, with a select list of the most useful texts. Plus, links to resource lists for many more, in the latest BookShelf.

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [69]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [32]
Environmental Health [4]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [5]
People & Population [6]
Science [53]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
California [27]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [57]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
International [34]
Central America & the Caribbean [65]
Europe [36]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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SEJournal Relaunches WatchDog with a ‘Voice,’ Plus Coronavirus and More [70]

SEJournal welcomes back from hiatus our WatchDog feature, now recast as an opinion column from Joseph A. Davis, Society of Environmental Journalists’ veteran freedom of information advocate and longtime SEJournal contributor. In part one of a two-parter, find out why we’re relaunching the new column, plus get Davis’ take on government openness (or lack thereof) around coronavirus, as well as more on SEJ’s deep commitment to open information and a rundown of its recent FOI activities. And watch for part two next week.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog [71]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Agriculture [31]
Air [42]
Biodiversity [43]
Chemicals [22]
Climate Change [16]
Consumer [44]
Disasters [32]
Economy & Business [23]
Energy & Fuel [45]
Environmental Health [4]
Environmental Politics [39]
Environmental Studies [46]
Fish & Fisheries [17]
Food [47]
Forests [48]
Government [49]
Health [24]
Journalism & Media [5]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Military [26]
Natural Resources [18]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Other or All [50]
People & Population [6]
Planning & Growth [51]
Policy [52]
Pollution [7]
Science [53]
Technology [54]
Transportation [55]
Waste [8]
Water & Oceans [9]
Wildlife [72]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Alaska and Hawaii [56]
California [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [57]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [58]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [59]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
Northwest (OR WA) [29]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [40]
International [34]
Canada [60]
Mexico [61]
Africa [62]
Antarctica & Arctic [63]
Asia [35]
Australia & Oceania [64]
Central America & the Caribbean [65]
Europe [36]
Middle East [66]
South America [67]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Data Project Details Nation's Disintegrating Dams [73]

Hundreds of U.S. dams are at risk, and the Associated Press undertook a massive two-year-long investigative reporting project to gather and sort data that would identify those presenting the greatest hazards. In this guest Reporter’s Toolbox, AP data journalist Michelle Minkoff details the news service’s painstaking process, its striking findings and the impact of its reporting. Plus, key lessons learned for other data news projects.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [38]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [32]
Government [49]
Journalism & Media [5]
Laws & Regulations [25]
Water & Oceans [9]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [57]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [58]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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Future of Nuclear Power Hangs in Balance of Climate, Costs [74]

Safety has traditionally been the key question when discussing the realities of nuclear power. But in assessing the future of the nuclear industry amid debates over its potential to help tackle the climate crisis, the latest entry in our “2020 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & the Environment” reports that there may be an equally pressing concern.

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Backgrounders [75]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Climate Change [16]
Disasters [32]
Energy & Fuel [45]
Journalism & Media [5]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [33]
Region:
National (U.S.) [10]
California [27]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [28]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [58]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [11]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [19]
International [34]
Canada [60]
Asia [35]
Visibility:
Public [12]
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