SEJournal
Fall 2014, Vol. 24 No. 3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SEJ President's Report
Celebrating 25 Years, Fluff Free [3]
By DON HOPEY

Special Report
Tracking the Fracking Boom: Coverage Basics, Questions To Ask in Reporting on Spread of Shale Oil and Gas Development [4]
By BOBBY MAGILL

Reporter's Toolbox
Taking the Chaos out of Your Disaster Coverage [5]
By NANCY GAARDER

• Sidebar: Your Packing List for Reporting a Natural Disaster [6]
  By EMILY GERTZ

Feature
Swimming With a New Tide [7]
By ROGER ARCHIBALD

Inside Story
Trendspotting on the Science Beat: Award Winner Makes Technical Training a Strength in Uncovering Sources, Stories [8]

Freelance Files
Committing to Collaboration: How Two Freelancers Pulled Off a Cross-Pacific Partnership [9]
By WINIFRED BIRD and JANE BRAXTON LITTLE

SEJ News
Mentoring Match: Veteran Freelancer Guides Radio Rookie [10]
By KAREN SCHAEFER and LANA STRAUB

EJ Academy
From Classroom to Bookshelf: Publishing a DIY Guide to Local Environmental Issues [11]
By DON CORRIGAN

Between the Lines
Scapegoating the Grey Seal: How an Author Fought Government Information Restrictions [12]

Book Shelf Book Reviews

"The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food" [13]
By Dan Barber
Penguin Press, $29.95
Reviewed by Jennifer Weeks

"The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism" [14]
By Jeremy Rifkin
Palgrave Macmillan, $28
Reviewed by CANDACE S. HUGHES

"The Melting World: A Journey Across America's Vanishing Glaciers" [15]
By Christopher White
St. Martin's Press, $26.99
Reviewed by TOM HENRY

"Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age" [16]
By Mary Christina Wood
Cambridge University Press, $45
Reviewed by JAY LETTO

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