Publication Items

SEJournal Fall 2013, Vol. 23 No. 3 [1]

In this issue: Special report on the climate adaptation story; tips on how to juggle multiple assignments as a freelancer; SEJ Awards' top photo winners span the globe; award-winning reporter shares insight into coastal coverage; fostering diversity in environmental journalism with SEJ's new guide; enviro beat icon Philip Shabecoff "Connects the Dots" in latest book; and more.

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SEJournal Online [2]
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Public [3]
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Tipsheet for Stories in Your Own Watershed [4]

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TipSheet [5]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [6]
Visibility:
Public [3]
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IJNR Institute Inspires Reporters To Get on Their Boots [7]

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Features [8]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [9]
Region:
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [10]
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Public [3]
- Read more about IJNR Institute Inspires Reporters To Get on Their Boots [7]
Freedom of Information Sessions at SEJ's 2013 Annual Conference in Chattanooga [11]

On Saturday, October 5: At 9:00 a.m. SEJ FOI Task Force Chair Tim Wheeler of the Baltimore Sun will moderate a session on overcoming obstacles put up by agency press offices to reporters who want to interview government officials. At 10:45 a.m. WatchDog Editor Joe Davis will present a hands-on session with tips for sleuthing dam and levee stories using federal databases like the National Inventory of Dams and the National Levee Database.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Transportation [13]
Planning & Growth [14]
Journalism & Media [9]
Water & Oceans [6]
Region:
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [15]
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Public [3]
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News Media Groups Urge Court To Open up Wild-Horse Roundups [16]

In 2010, BLM denied Horseback Magazine photojournalist Laura Leigh access to federal land to photograph a roundup. She went to court, was rejected, then went to a complex chain of appeals. Now the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and other j-groups have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of photojournalists' First Amendment rights to cover government actions.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [17]
Laws & Regulations [18]
Visibility:
Public [3]
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Senate Committee Once More OKs Federal Shield Law [19]

The Senate Judiciary Committee on September 12, 2013, approved a bill shielding journalists from being compelled to reveal their confidential sources. Its prospects for enactment look iffy in a Congress noted for gridlock. The panel approved the bill (S 987, titled "The Free Flow of Information Act of 2013) by a 13-5 vote.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Laws & Regulations [18]
Government [20]
Visibility:
Public [3]
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Koch Dark Money Influences Environmental Politics [21]

News broken this month by Politico revealed the existence of a Koch brothers fund that quietly handed out some $250 million to conservative causes during the 2012 elections. Under U.S. law, such groups are tax-exempt, can raise unlimited amounts of money, and do not have to disclose their donors.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [22]
Economy & Business [23]
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Public [3]
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Most US Public Companies Ignore Rule on Climate Risk Disclosure [24]

In 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) required publicly traded companies to disclose to their stockholders (and the public) what business risks they might face from climate change. Almost three-quarters of the companies are still ignoring the rule, and their shareholders are flying blind.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [23]
Disasters [25]
Climate Change [26]
Visibility:
Public [3]
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Gina McCarthy on Media Relations: "We'll Talk" [27]

Incoming EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy may have signaled an opening in the agency's long-troubled relations with the news media during her September 20, 2013, announcement of EPA's carbon rule at the National Press Club.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [22]
Visibility:
Public [3]
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Pennsylvania Blocks Report Criticizing Shale Gas [28]

Under law, Pennsylvania was supposed to publish a report outlining climate change impacts on the state by Spring 2012. But the Department of Environmental Protection says it is still being reviewed, and nobody will say when it might be published.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [12]
Topics on the Beat:
Energy & Fuel [29]
Climate Change [26]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [30]
Visibility:
Public [3]
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