Some Salinas Valley residents worry that the drift of pesticides sprayed on fields near schools may endanger children, despite some controls.
"The House approved legislation Friday aimed at making chemical and water treatment facilities less vulnerable to terrorist attack."
How do you cut through the buzz words, the numbers and conflicting opinions? Do green jobs mean more jobs in your community? What, exactly, is a "green job" anyway? This interactive screencast, co-hosted by the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the Poynter Institute's News University, will include live audio and a slideshow presentation in which participants can post questions and respond to poll questions posed by the host.
SEJ President Christy George offers a timeline of EPA's most persistent issues impacting reporters doing their jobs and explains SEJ's newest initiative, FEJ, an incubator for new ideas, projects and training.
For purely journalistic reasons, reporters could periodically write about those things they had decided not to cover: Their rationale and providing links, even, for those wanting to know more. They can thereby open the doors to their own internal news decision-making, let the public see in, all in the interest of their better understanding the news-making process.
By WILLIAM DIETRICH
We're midway through an academic quarter at Western Washington University's Planet magazine, and it's time for second-draft panic.
The spring of 2009 is our student environmental magazine's 30th Anniversary, and we've got stories with no point, stories with gaping holes, stories that ignore AP style, stories with no lead, stories that stop instead of end, stories with no pictures, and pictures with no stories.
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/salinas-valley-schools-perched-near-pesticide-sprayed-farmland
[2] http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20091107/NEWS01/911070305/1002/NEWS01
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/house-votes-to-strengthen-chem-plant-security
[4] http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iuzpMUqPd2JwtNv2yhs7-siQncQAD9BQA0J01
[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/webinar-green-jobs-what-you-need-know
[6] https://www.sej.org/publications/mexico/disorder-at-the-borders-photographers-aim-to-document-and-protect-borderland-env
[7] https://www.sej.org/journalismmedia/sej-builds-anew-with-epa-starts-fund-for-environmental-journalism
[8] https://www.sej.org/publications/journalismmedia/two-billion-cars-driving-toward-sustainability
[9] https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/letting-the-reader-see-your-editorial-judgments-might-enhance-them
[10] https://www.sej.org/publications/journalismmedia/a-key-to-improving-your-video-get-good-audio
[11] https://www.sej.org/publications/national-us/germ-killer-largely-unregulated-attracts-new-concern-for-wildlife
[12] https://www.sej.org/publications/journalismmedia/veteran-newspaper-writer-finds-teachings-hidden-pleasures
[13] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[14] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4706
[15] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4703
[16] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4704
[17] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4705
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4708
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4709
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4710
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4711
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4968