Publication Items

Scientists Critique Media Reports on Climate [1]

Yale Climate Connections' Bud Ward reports on the Climate Feedback project, which scores articles and columns for accuracy, logic and reasoning, fairness, objectivity and precision.

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Features [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
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Public [5]
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Ag Department To Release Food Safety Inspection Data [6]

Data journalists may be salivating at news that the USDA will soon release facility-specific federal food safety inspection information in database form. Photo: © Clipart.com [7]

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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
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Agriculture [9]
Health [10]
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Public [5]
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EPA Withholds "Deliberative" Docs on Arizona's Rosemont Mine [11]

The public is still in the dark about the environmental impacts of the open-pit Rosemont copper mine proposed near Tucson. The documents are sought by Arizona Daily Star reporter and SEJ member Tony Davis, who has doggedly reported on the impacts, largely utilizing FOIA request results. Image: © Clipart.com [12]

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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [13]
Natural Resources [14]
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Public [5]
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News Media Groups Complain About Convention Restrictions [15]

Authorities in both Cleveland and Philadelphia placed new restrictions on media covering the Republican convention, including banning gas masks, backpacks and bags bigger than 18" x 13" x 7" — which severely cramps broadcast journalists' ability to carry electronic gear.

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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [16]
Journalism & Media [4]
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Public [5]
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Court Docs in Bankruptcy Disclose Peabody Funding of Climate Denial [17]

Peabody, the documents show, funded at least two dozen groups that sowed doubt about whether climate change is caused by human emissions and that opposed regulating climate emissions. Most of that funding had been kept secret until now.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [3]
Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [13]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Pollution [20]
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Public [5]
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Reporters Committee Calls for Federal Anti-SLAPP Law [21]

"Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation" are legal bullying, using the resources of well-heeled business or political groups to harass smaller citizens' groups or (sometimes) news media who can barely afford lawyers. Now some are calling for a federal law to counter them.

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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [19]
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Public [5]
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Enviros Want To See Fired New Brunswick Scientist's Glyphosate Report [22]

The Council of Canadians, an environmental group, is calling for release of a report on the herbicide glyphosate that New Brunswick's chief medical officer was working on when she was dismissed six months ago.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [23]
Environmental Health [24]
Health [10]
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Canada [25]
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Public [5]
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U.S. Appeals Court Rules Private Emails Not Always Exempt from FOIA [26]

When a government official sends work-related emails over a private or personal email account, the emails are not necessarily exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, a federal appeals court ruled July 5, 2016.

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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
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Laws & Regulations [19]
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Public [5]
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Obama Signs FOIA Improvement Legislation into Law [27]

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the original Freedom of Information Act, President Obama June 30, 2016, signed into law a package of amendments to strengthen it. The bill codifies the "presumption of openness."

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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
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Laws & Regulations [19]
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Public [5]
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Journalism Remains a Noble Endeavor [28]

For hard-working journalists, reward comes in those quiet moments of reflection when we see our work go public and watch as it positively contributes to the dialogues taking place in our communities, across America and, indeed, around the world. SEJ Board president Jeff Burnside, pictured, explains in the latest issue of SEJournal.

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SEJ Presidents Report [29]
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