Publication Items

WikiLeaks Exposes Secret Obama Trade Pact on Environment [1]

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 [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Economy & Business [6]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJ, SPJ Urge EPA, CDC to End Press Office Obstacles in Public Health Crises [8]

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 [9]
Health [10]
Environmental Health [5]
Disasters [11]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [12]
National (U.S.) [13]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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The Promise of Flight: Drones and Environmental Journalism [14]

SEJ Publication Types:
Features [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [16]
Technology [17]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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"Deerland: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness" [18]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Health [5]
Wildlife [20]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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"Peril in the Ponds: Deformed Frogs, Politics, and a Biologist’s Quest" [21]

SEJ Publication Types:
BookShelf [19]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [22]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [23]
Health [10]
Wildlife [20]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Top Beat Reporter Looks for “Window into Story” [24]

"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 [26]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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SEJournal Winter 2014, Vol. 23 No. 4 [25]

In this issue: National Geographic photographer Steve Winter and writer Sharon Guynup tell the tiger's story; user's guide to foundation-backed journalism; e-book publishing; drones and enviro journalism; book reviews; interview with SEJ Award winner Sam Eaton; and photojournalism upheaval heralds multimedia’s rise.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [27]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Secret CRS Reports on Environment Published [28]

Taxpayers' money funds the Congressional Research Service as it produces objective and authoritative reports on issues facing Congress — many on subjects of interest to environmental journalists. Congress, however, does not share these reports with the public who paid for them. Thanks to the Project on Government Secrecy, another batch of the reports has been leaked and published.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [17]
Natural Resources [29]
Laws & Regulations [30]
Government [31]
Energy & Fuel [32]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Environment Canada Denied 22% of Requests for Scientist Interviews in 2013 [33]

The startling admission only bolsters critics who say the conservative Harper government is suppressing science which does not support its politics — for example, its policies on global warming or oil sands.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [34]
Environmental Politics [4]
Region:
Canada [35]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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Elsevier Pushes To Keep Academics from Sharing Their Research [36]

Free online publication of peer-reviewed scientific articles is essential to environmental journalists. One publisher, Elsevier, caused a stir recently by demanding that several universities take their own scholars' research down from the web or social media.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Science [34]
Visibility:
Public [7]
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