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SEJ Members Publish E-books, Change Jobs, Gain Awards [1]

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SEJ News [2]
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Journalism & Media [3]
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Public [4]
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Bridging the Journalism/Science Divide, Professions Seek New Ways To Collaborate [5]

Bud Ward, editor of The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, writes about the ways for these two disciplines to get along and learn from each other — while preserving their own independence and remaining loyal to their underlying principles.

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Backgrounders [6]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
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Public [4]
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It Is Not the Strongest of the Species That Survives... [7]

SEJ President Carolyn Whetzel explains results of a research project underwritten by the Brainerd Foundation to identify SEJ’s strengths and weaknesses, which served as a basis for a discussion on a strategic path for the organization over the next three years.

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SEJ Presidents Report [8]
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Journalism & Media [3]
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Public [4]
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The Carson Effect [9]

William Souder explains how Rachel Carson's seminal 1962 work Silent Spring shaped (and still shapes) modern environmentalism (from his new book, On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson).

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Features [11]
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Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Health [15]
Science [16]
Wildlife [17]
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Public [4]
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Open-Source Background on Federal BioWatch Program [18]

Referenced from "DHS and CDC Refuse To Give House Panel Docs on Failed BioWatch Program," [19] SEJ WatchDog TipSheet, November 28, 2012.
Topics on the Beat:
Health [15]
Government [20]
Disasters [21]
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Public [4]
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GOPers Attack EPA's Jackson for Alias E-Mail Account [22]

Critics say Jackson's use of an e-mail account using her dog's name is an effort to hide agency business. Agency officials maintain the practice is innocent.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [20]
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Public [4]
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DHS and CDC Refuse To Give House Panel Docs on Failed BioWatch Program [19]

After wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on a non-working program aimed at protecting the US public from biological attack, the Department of Homeland Security and Centers for Disease Control may be refusing to give documents on the program to House Energy Committee investigators.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [15]
Government [20]
Disasters [21]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Undercover Muckraking a Lonely, Dangerous Job [24]

Humaneitarian's Caroline Abels relates the story of today's muckrakers going undercover in investigations of American factory farms conducted by the Humane Society of the U.S.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
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Public [4]
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Obama Signs Whistleblower Bill [25]

President Obama on November 27, 2012, signed into law a bill beefing up previously flimsy protections for federal employee whistleblowers who disclose waste, fraud, and abuse. The legislation was supported by good-government watchdog groups.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [26]
Government [20]
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Public [4]
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Access to Fracking Info — Still Bad — Improved by Non-Gov Web Initiatives [27]

A geeky nonprofit watchdog group has done what government and private industry have failed to do; the group, SkyTruth, has made data about the ingredients in fracking fluid easily accessible to the public.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [23]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [28]
Health [15]
Energy & Fuel [29]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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