Publication Items

SEJournal Fall 2016, Vol. 26 No. 3 [1]

In this issue: "A Time of Change, a Time to Stay the Same"; SEJournal goes digital; departing head Beth Parke scrapbooks her SEJ life; exploring and documenting a primeval landscape; photojournalist Stuart Palley shoots wildfires; new SEJ member profiles enhance networking; JoAnn Valenti reviews documentary "Time To Choose"; interview with Craig Pittman on writing about Florida, environment, booms and busts; social media for freelancers; book reviews.

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SEJournal Online [2]
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Public [3]
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Letter from the Editor: SEJournal Goes Digital [4]

Starting this fall, we’ll be producing a new SEJournal weekly e-newsletter that will continue the same high-quality news and features you’ve been getting in the print publication, only with a vastly shorter time from pen to (web) publication and in a way that’s easier to search, find, bookmark and share. Not only that, we’re re-imagining the print SEJournal as a topically focused issue worthy of keeping as a reference work, and published as (or almost as) regularly. Read more from SEJournal editor Adam Glenn (pictured).

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SEJ News [5]
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Public [3]
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What Congress Won't Let You Read: Latest CRS Explainers Leaked [6]

The Congressional Research Service produces expert nonpartisan backgrounders on many subjects of interest to environment and energy journalists. But Congress won't release them. Thanks to the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy, you can read them now.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [8]
Climate Change [9]
Disasters [10]
Economy & Business [11]
Energy & Fuel [12]
Health [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Transportation [16]
Visibility:
Public [3]
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Wyoming "Data Trespass" Legal Conflict Settled by Ranchers, Enviros [17]

A lawsuit over Wyoming's controversial "data trespass" law, which made it illegal to document pollution violations on "private open land", was settled in August without really resolving any of the important Constitutional issues behind it — and with both sides claiming victory.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [14]
Pollution [15]
Region:
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [18]
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Public [3]
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FOIA Policy: Many Journos Surveyed Say "Wait" Before "Release to All" [19]

A key issue on the Freedom of Information Act is once a government record is released to a single FOIA requester, should it then be automatically released to any other requester and the general public? "Yes" was the answer from most journalists surveyed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press — but with an important caveat. Image: © Clipart.com. [20]

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [14]
Policy [21]
Visibility:
Public [3]
- Read more about FOIA Policy: Many Journos Surveyed Say "Wait" Before "Release to All" [19]
Transparency: Still a Legacy Problem with the Obama Administration [22]

Press Secretary Josh Earnest (pictured) highlighted a few of the Obama administration's steps forward on openness in an Aug 30, 2016, letter to the New York Times. But transparent? Not so much, according to many journalists in the trenches, and a large number of news media and journalism groups who have asked for more from the White House and not heard back.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [7]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [23]
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Public [3]
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"Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" [24]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [11]
Environmental Politics [26]
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Public [3]
- Read more about "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right" [24]
The Truth About Teaching: SEJ Academic Members Weigh In [27]

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EJ Academy [28]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [29]
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Public [3]
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Chasing Atoms, Sifting Facts on Nuclear Energy Beat [30]

The good news is that in the nuke business, virtually everything is meticulously documented — somewhere. One just has to take the time to find it, since that is where the real story is.

SEJ Publication Types:
Reporters Toolbox [31]
Topics on the Beat:
Nuclear Power & Radiation [32]
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Public [3]
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Between the Lines: Collaborators in the Chronicling of Destruction and Hope [33]

For the latest installment of Between the Lines, an author Q & A, SEJournal book editor Tom Henry interviewed award-winning children’s nature book author Lynne Cherry, best known for“The Great Kapok Tree,” which sold more than a million copies and became a staple in elementary schools. Cherry speaks about her career, as well as her longstanding collaboration with the late Gary Braasch, a renowned photojournalist and past SEJ member who passed away March 7 [34].

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [9]
Journalism & Media [29]
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Public [3]
- Read more about Between the Lines: Collaborators in the Chronicling of Destruction and Hope [33]

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