Publication Items

FOIA Reform Is Dead; Long Live FOIA Reform [1]

Legislation to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act, a key journalist's tool, died in the final hours of the do-nothing 113th Congress — but hopes remain that the coming 114th Congress could pass the bipartisan package. The bill's Senate passage was delayed by a "hold" placed on it by retiring Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), whose reasons were not clearly explained but were apparently due to banking interests' fears.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [3]
Government [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Tracking the Fracking Boom [6]

In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Fall), Bobby Magill's special report offers coverage basics and questions to ask when you are reporting on the spread of shale oil and gas development.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Thanks to These Generous Members and Friends Who Supported SEJ’s Work in 2013 [9]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [11]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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"Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment" [12]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Studies [14]
Journalism & Media [11]
People & Population [15]
Science [16]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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"Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity" [17]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Consumer [18]
Environmental Health [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [15]
Technology [21]
Water & Oceans [22]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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"Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster" [23]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [24]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Environmental Health [19]
Health [25]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
People & Population [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [27]
Asia [28]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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"Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos" [29]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Disasters [24]
Environmental Health [19]
Health [25]
Military [30]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [31]
Pollution [32]
Region:
Asia [28]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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From Classroom to Bookshelf: Publishing a DIY Guide to Local Environmental Issues [33]

In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Fall), Webster University journalism professor Don Corrigan shares how he used his classroom as a focal point for generating material with student inquiry and invitations to local experts, resulting in publication of a guide to St. Louis' environmental issues — and how the book can serve as a template for other professors to write a book for other states or regions.

SEJ Publication Types:
EJ Academy [34]
Region:
National (U.S.) [27]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [35]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Read the Congressional Reports You're Not Supposed To Read [36]

Journalists hurrying to get up to speed on environmental or energy issues can get objective background from reports by the Congressional Research Service (an arm of the Library of Congress), which does not release them to the taxpaying public that funded them. We thank the Federation of American Scientists' Government Secrecy Project for publishing them.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [37]
Disasters [24]
Energy & Fuel [8]
Health [25]
Laws & Regulations [38]
Military [30]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [26]
Science [16]
Transportation [39]
Wildlife [40]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Monsanto Brings Agriculture Geodata to the Public [41]

If you report on agriculture-related environmental issues, you may find useful a new geodata tool available free to the public online. Monsanto has bought The Climate Corporation (for $930 million), which compiles weather, soil, and crop data down to the field level.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [42]
Technology [21]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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