Publication Items

SEJ Awarded Prestigious International Prize [1]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
International [4]
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Public [5]
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Try a Little Carp Humor To Woo More Traffic to Your Online News Site [6]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Try a Little Carp Humor To Woo More Traffic to Your Online News Site [6]
Gulf Oil Leak Shrouds Climate Change But Still Holds Key Issues [9]

For journalists covering major energy- and environment-related stories and natural disasters, the visually gushing BP Gulf of Mexico oil leak easily supplanted climate change and other national stories in the steadily shrinking news hole. Yet there are striking parallels between the sudden and in-your-face Gulf BP spill and the incremental and nonlinear climate change issue.

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [10]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Feds: People Can Take Photos Outside Court Houses [12]

Photojournalists doing environmental stories have been harassed and blocked by federal police for a decade or more when they try to take pictures of federal facilities from public spaces. Now, under a court settlement, the federal government is publicly acknowledging that it is acting illegally when it does this.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [14]
Journalism & Media [3]
Government [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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Toolbox: Following the Secret Money Can Be a Hard Job. Here's Help [16]

The new buzzword is "dark money." Since the US Supreme Court's decision to override Congress and allow unlimited secret cash from corporations (even from foreign governments) to influence US elections, following the money has gotten hard.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Toolbox: Following the Secret Money Can Be a Hard Job. Here's Help [16]
Congress Too Busy Electioneering To Make Mandated Reports Public [17]

It's hard to believe that some of the reports Congress demands of federal agencies are not available to the public. But it's true — not because the reports are classified but because neither the agencies nor Congress bothers to publish them.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Congress Too Busy Electioneering To Make Mandated Reports Public [17]
Report: Despite Promises, Obama Hasn't Improved Open-Info Much [18]

As soon as he arrived in office, President Obama promised to bring an unprecedented openness to the federal government. A mid-term report by a watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, concludes that Obama's promise has yet to be met.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Report: Despite Promises, Obama Hasn't Improved Open-Info Much [18]
MSHA Watchdog Journalist Gets FOIA Records After 7 Years [19]

Is the federal government covering up mine disasters? The Mine Safety and Health Administration was certainly not going out of its way to dispel that impression when it waited seven years to produce records sought by Ellen Smith, editor of Mine Safety and Health News.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Government [15]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about MSHA Watchdog Journalist Gets FOIA Records After 7 Years [19]
Spill Commission: Obama Admin Blocked Release of Oil Flow Data [20]

"The White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could have been, according to a panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history."
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [13]
Region:
National (U.S.) [8]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Spill Commission: Obama Admin Blocked Release of Oil Flow Data [20]
SEJ: A Rare Flower of International Distinction [21]

We SEJ-ers have been bragging for a long time that at any given time, we represent roughly 1,500 members in more than 30 countries. And a few years ago, we helped set up a group like SEJ in Mexico. But the idea that SEJ exists around the world has truly come home this year. Read more from SEJ President Christy George.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [22]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [3]
Region:
International [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
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