Publication Items

CDC, EPA Respond to SEJ Complaints about Press Office Obstacles [1]

After the SEJ and the Society of Professional Journalists complained January 20, 2014, about federal agency press office stonewalling in the face of the Charleston, WV, drinking water disaster, the agencies responded. Read the text of their replies here.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Disasters [5]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Photog Claims Damages from CalTrans, CHP for Arrest, False Report [8]

The California Highway Patrol lied in reports when it violated the First Amendment rights of news photographer Steve Eberhard of the Willitts News by illegally arresting him to intimidate newsgatherers at a protest site in July 2013, Eberhard says in a legal claim against CHP and Caltrans.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Region:
California [11]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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FAA Nixes Drones for Journos [12]

Drones might count as new media — and certainly have journalistic uses in covering everything from prairie fires to chemical emergencies. The federal government, which devotes enormous technical resources to spying on its citizens, now says this is illegal. The Federal Aviation Administration issued the ruling, saying there was no grey area: hobbyists can legally fly video drones. But journalists can not. Image: Cade Cleavelin, a science/ag journalism senior at U of Missouri, demonstrates a DJY Phantom quadcopter at the 2013 SEJ Conference in Chattanooga, TN. © Roger Archibald.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [13]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Journalism & Media [10]
Government [14]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Drinking Water Crisis Reveals Knowledge Gaps [15]

You read about the 300,000 West Virginians who don't know if they are drinking safe water — and ask "Could it happen here?" The answer is "You betcha!" Environmental journalists have many tools for discovering drinking-water disasters-waiting-to-happen in their own bailiwicks.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [3]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Disasters [5]
Chemicals [16]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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WikiLeaks Exposes Secret Obama Trade Pact on Environment [18]

Corporate lobby groups? Yeah, they can read it. Big campaign donors? They can read it, too. But can the news media and U.S. public read it? — No way! That would be un-American. Welcome to the secretly negotiated trade treaty known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Planning & Growth [19]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Health [20]
Economy & Business [21]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJ, SPJ Urge EPA, CDC to End Press Office Obstacles in Public Health Crises [22]

Reporters scrambling to inform the 300,000 citizens of Charleston, West Virginia, about why they could not drink their tap water, what health threats it presented, and who was responsible faced a stone wall from most of the responsible government agencies in the early days of the crisis.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [3]
Health [23]
Environmental Health [20]
Disasters [5]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [6]
National (U.S.) [17]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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The Promise of Flight: Drones and Environmental Journalism [24]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [25]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [10]
Technology [13]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about The Promise of Flight: Drones and Environmental Journalism [24]
"Deerland: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness" [26]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [20]
Wildlife [28]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about "Deerland: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness" [26]
"Peril in the Ponds: Deformed Frogs, Politics, and a Biologist’s Quest" [29]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [27]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [16]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [30]
Health [23]
Wildlife [28]
Visibility:
Public [7]
- Read more about "Peril in the Ponds: Deformed Frogs, Politics, and a Biologist’s Quest" [29]
Top Beat Reporter Looks for “Window into Story” [31]

"Inside Story" interviews award-winning radio and TV journalist Sam Eaton about how he reports on complex enviro issues such as Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant and climate research in the Arctic. Photo: Eaton with tsunami survivor and aquaculture fisherman Hiromitsu Ito, by Yuma Hamayoshi.

SEJ Publication Types:
Inside Story [33]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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