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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features

Presidential Campaign Proves Environment a Hot Story [3]
By BOB WYSS

Actress’ Persistence Brings Rachel Carson to Film [4]
By JOANN  VALENTI

Inside Story: Louis Slesin Interview [5]
By BILL DAWSON

Columns

President’s Report: Amid the Newsroom Wreckage, A Bit of E-Beat Hope [6]
By TIM WHEELER

Science Survey: A Question of Science in EPA Air Regulation Decisions [7]
By CHERYL HOGUE

The Beat: How Have Conservative Views of the Environment Evolved? [8]
By BILL DAWSON

Freelance Life: Making the Move from a Newspaper to “Writing for Hire” [9]
By ABBY LUBY

Reporter’s Toolbox: Might the Suburbs in Your Area Become the Next Slums? [10]
By ROBERT McCLURE

SEJ News: Best Environmental Journalism of 2007-2008 Honored [11]

Research Roundup: E-beat Questions: Favoring Sources? What about TV Envirocasts? [12]
By JAN KNIGHT

BookShelf Book Reviews

"Covering the Environment: How Journalists Work the Green Beat" [13]
By Robert Wyss
Reviewed by Bill Kovarik