Publication Items

"From Green to Mean: The GOP’s Downward Environmental Spiral" [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Social Media for Freelancers: How I Learned To Love Twitter [5]

Freelancer Eva Holland shares her story of how Twitter, over time, became her most important tool to chase new, more rewarding and more lucrative assignments.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [7]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Newly Leaked: CRS Explainers To Help Environmental Journalists [8]

The Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy publishes leaked copies of Congressional Research Service research papers. Here are a few recent ones of use to environmental journalists.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [10]
Biodiversity [11]
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Health [14]
Technology [15]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Reporters Committee, Others Launch FOIA Wiki Beta: Help Is on the Way [16]

A promising new resource has begun helping reporters trying to use the Freedom of Information Act to pry loose government information relevant to their stories. The "FOIA Wiki" is a collaborative and explanatory collection of information meant to help you.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [17]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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NFOIC Meets Amid New Open-Government Challenges of Digital Revolution [18]

Investigative journalism is hardly about paper documents anymore. The cutting edge today is more likely to be requests for emails, as well as text messages, chats and other electronic communications such as Slack. This big challenge was front and center at the recent meeting of the National Freedom of Information Coalition.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [17]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Technology [15]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Investigative Journalism Lives! — CMD Exposes GOP on Clean Air Plan [20]

Patience, attention to detail, and public-records requests can still get you a bombshell story on the environmental beat. One recently tied coal and oil company megabucks to Republican attorneys general challenging the Clean Power Plan (CPP) in court.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [12]
Energy & Fuel [13]
Environmental Politics [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Impaired Waters Lists: A Tool for Water Pollution Reporting [21]

Summer algal blooms, seafood advisories, and beach closures remind us that water pollution has not gone away, and environmental journalists can still find loads of local and regional stories about it — if they dig. Here's a tool that can help. Image: © Clipart.com [22].

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Pork Producers Win Appeal in CAFO Disclosure Case [25]

In addition to nuisance smells, confined animal feeding operations (aka CAFOs) can present serious air and water pollution problems. They are weakly regulated. Now a federal appeals court says information on who owns those feedlots can be kept secret. Image: © Clipart.com [26].

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [10]
Government [17]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [23]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Miami Herald Sues County for Location of Zika Mosquitoes, Gets It [27]

Miami-Dade county had stiff-armed a request from the Herald for the information, and denied a FOIA request. The county claimed the information was exempt for public health reasons. Photo: © Clipart.com. [28]

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [29]
Health [14]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [30]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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"Close-Hold Embargos" Control Journalists at FDA, Other Agencies [31]

Should a federal agency be able to tell a science reporter whom they can — and can't — interview? The issue exploded in September with publication of a deeply reported piece on the "close-hold embargo" by Scientific American. Photo: © Clipart.com. [32]

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [17]
Journalism & Media [7]
Visibility:
Public [4]
- Read more about "Close-Hold Embargos" Control Journalists at FDA, Other Agencies [31]

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