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"Climate Coverage, Dominated By Weird Weather, Falls Further in 2012" [1]

"In a year of strange weather worldwide, climate change reporting by the world's journalists fell another 2 percent, according to DailyClimate.org's archive of media coverage. But there were some surprises."

Journalism & Media [2]
Climate Change [3]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Daily Climate [6], 01/03/2013

Do Mainstream Media Disclose "Experts'" Links to Oil and Gas Industry? [7]

Too often stories fail to disclose such industry ties, which might call into question the experts' objectivity. The Checks and Balances Project, an energy watchdog group, did an analysis of coverage in 60 publications over a five-year period with very interesting results.

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WatchDog TipSheet [8]
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Journalism & Media [2]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Economy & Business [10]
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White House Stalls Critical EPA Report on Chemical Dangers To Children [11]

"A landmark Environmental Protection Agency report concluding that children exposed to toxic substances can develop learning disabilities, asthma and other health problems has been sidetracked indefinitely amid fierce opposition from the chemical industry."

Chemicals [12]
Environmental Health [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [2]
People & Population [15]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Investigative Reporting Workshop [16], 12/24/2012

From Best-Selling Novelist, Something Rare: Plot About Climate Change [17]

"Barbara Kingsolver's novel, 'Flight Behavior,' opens with a scenario that could have been ripped from a Harlequin Romance: Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless young housewife in rural Feathertown, Tenn., is walking into the woods to meet a man who is not her husband. Things take a turn, as they always do in fiction. But this turn is not the usual one."

Climate Change [3]
Journalism & Media [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Daily Climate [18], 12/21/2012

Special Year-End Member Spotlight: Interview with David Biello [19]

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Award-winning ScientificAmerican.com associate editor David Biello has been reporting on the environment and energy since 1999. He is the host of the 60-Second Earth podcast, a contributor to the Instant Egghead video series, author of a children's book on bullet trains, and hosts the PBS documentary series Beyond the Light Switch. Read Biello's comments on the state of environmental journalism and the value of SEJ to its member-journalists. 

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SEJ Board Member Witherspoon's Letter to Texas Observer Editor and Publisher, and Editor's Response [20]

December 18, 2012

Dave Mann, Editor
Piper Stege Nelson, Publisher
The Texas Observer
307 W 7th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
editors@texasobserver.org [21]

Mr. Mann and Ms. Nelson:

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SEJ President Hopey's Letter to Texas Observer Editor and Publisher, and Editor's Response [22]

December 18, 2012

Dave Mann, Editor
Piper Stege Nelson, Publisher
The Texas Observer
307 W 7th Street
Austin, Texas 78701
editors@texasobserver.org [21]

Mr. Mann and Ms. Nelson:

As president of the Society of Environmental Journalists, I must take strong exception to the wholly inaccurate portrayal of our October conference in the December 11, 2012, article written by Melissa del Bosque and headlined "Notorious polluters sponsor a conference for environmental journalists."

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"Fracking Lobbyists Prepare Case Against Matt Damon's Promised Land" [23]

"Energy in Depth prepares 'cheat sheet' of pro-fracking talking points before release of Gus Van Sant drilling-rights drama."

Energy & Fuel [9]
Environmental Politics [14]
Journalism & Media [2]
Public [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Source: Guardian [24], 12/18/2012

"The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today" [25]

 

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Biodiversity [27]
Health [28]
Journalism & Media [2]
People & Population [15]
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Public [4]

"In the Lap of the Gods" [29]

 

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Agriculture [30]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [9]
Journalism & Media [2]
People & Population [15]
Planning & Growth [31]
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Asia [32]
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-coverage-dominated-weird-weather-falls-further-2012 [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [4] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [6] http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/01/2012-climate-change-reporting [7] https://www.sej.org/publications/watchdog-tipsheet/do-mainstream-media-disclose-experts-links-oil-and-gas-industry [8] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication/watchdog-tipsheet [9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business [11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/white-house-stalls-critical-epa-report-chemical-dangers-children [12] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [13] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [14] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population [16] http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/toxic-influence/story/white-house-stalls-critical-epa-report-highlightin/ [17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/best-selling-novelist-something-rare-plot-about-climate-change [18] http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/12/kingsolver-climate-change-fiction [19] https://www.sej.org/library/special-year-end-member-spotlight-interview-david-biello [20] https://www.sej.org/sej-board-member-witherspoons-letter-texas-observer-editor-and-publisher-editors-response [21] mailto:editors@texasobserver.org [22] https://www.sej.org/sej-president-hopeys-letter-texas-observer-editor-and-publisher-editors-response [23] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fracking-lobbyists-prepare-case-against-matt-damons-promised-land [24] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/17/fracking-lobbyists-matt-damon-promised-land [25] https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal-su-fall12/wild-life-our-bodies [26] https://www.sej.org/category/sej-publication-types/bookshelf [27] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1 [28] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/health [29] https://www.sej.org/publications/sejournal-su-fall12/lap-gods [30] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture [31] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/cities-towns [32] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/asia [33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=477 [34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=474 [35] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=475 [36] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=476 [37] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=479 [38] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=480 [39] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=481 [40] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=482 [41] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media?page=565