Publication Items

Justice Settles Hatfill Case, Locy Jail Threat Still Pends [1]

With the Hatfil anthrax case settled, why is a court still threatening reporter Toni Locy with jail and fines for refusing to reveal the identity of confidential sources?
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Justice Settles Hatfill Case, Locy Jail Threat Still Pends [1]
Corps Withholds Dam Inventory Data [6]

The Army Corps of Engineers has stopped giving the public access to a database that shows how well federal agencies are doing at dam safety.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [7]
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Corps Withholds Dam Inventory Data [6]
Study: FOIA Reforms Haven't Brought Better Performance -- Yet [8]

Despite a Bush Executive Order ostensibly aimed at improving agency FOIA performance, most agencies have little to show two years later.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Study: FOIA Reforms Haven't Brought Better Performance -- Yet [8]
National Academies Study Calls for Restoration of Climate Sensors [9]

How can you tell whether global warming is happening if the White House shuts down the satellites needed to sense it by cutting their budgets?
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [10]
Science [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about National Academies Study Calls for Restoration of Climate Sensors [9]
Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe [12]

The Center for Public Integrity gets an award most journalists would envy -- for its Superfund expose.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Waste [13]
Government [3]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Center For Public Integrity Gets SPJ Prize For Superfund Probe [12]
TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits [14]

There are lots of good databases out there to help environmental reporters. Here are a few more you may not know.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about TOOLBOX: Environmental Databases Rich With Reporting Tools -- Despite Limits [14]
White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [15]

How did the White House suppress an EPA finding that human-induced greenhouse warming was a threat to human health (and thus subject to regulation)? By refusing to read it. But you can read it here.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [16]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about White-House-Suppressed Climate 'Endangerment Finding' Released [15]
Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [17]

Vice President Cheney's office blacked out scientific testimony to Congress on the public health consequences of climate change
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Environmental Politics [16]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Cheney's Office Censored Warming Testimony [17]
Reprint: A Reporter's Bill Of Rights [18]

Here's the press policy a lot of journalists would like to see at all agencies.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about Reprint: A Reporter's Bill Of Rights [18]
EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 1) [20]

Revelation of a document instructing EPA staff not to talk to reporters brings calls for the resignation of Administrator Steve Johnson.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [4]
Visibility:
Public [5]
- Read more about EPA Gag Order Brings Call For Johnson Resignation (Part 1) [20]

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