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The Beat: Top Universities Rethink How To Prepare E-Beat Journalists

By BILL DAWSON

The Beat usually examines recent coverage of environmental issues. This time around, though, The Beat looks at the environmental beat itself — specifically, at a couple of recent developments related to the training of journalists to cover environmental issues.

The first event was the October announcement that Columbia University was suspending for review its two-year, dual-degree graduate program leading to one master's degree in journalism and another in environmental science.

Science Survey: Notes on Nature Can Be a Telling Scientific Record of Home

E-Reporting Biz: It Can Be Dangerous Being An E-Journalist in the Digital Age

The digital age of environmental journalism has brought with it an ugly underbelly characterized by increasingly bitter personal exchanges and accusations and a sucking-up of countless hours of productive reporting time and effort. How reporters handle these distractions may shape how well the American public understands, or doesn't understand, the climate challenge they and future generations will face.

"Can Ecotourism Rescue Tourist Destinations?"

"The tourism industry could fund payments for ecosystem services to underwrite and insure its investments. And by harnessing private-sector investment, billions of dollars worth of vulnerable yet valuable marine and coastal ecosystems could avoid Cancun’s fate, says a growing group of governmental organizations, environmental groups and non-governmental organizations."

Source: Ecosystem Marketplace, 01/26/2010

Scientists Say Actual Data Contradicts Climate Skeptic

A new peer-reviewed analysis by scientists at the National Climatic Data Center concludes that skeptic Anthony Watts' 2009 critique of the U.S. temperature record is itself contrary to the actual data.

Source: Scholars & Rogues, 01/26/2010

"Interior Chief Salazar's First Year a Gusher of Controversy"

"Somewhere just after 12:30 p.m. on a cold Wednesday this month, the image of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as a Western pragmatist and wily political deal-maker evaporated in a cloud of heated rhetoric."

Source: Denver Post, 01/26/2010

"Global Warming: Ballot Initiative Would Curb California Efforts"

A move is afoot in California to put on the ballot an initiative that would cripple the state's effort to slash its greenhouse emissions.

Source: LA Times, 01/26/2010

"Groups Seek Citizen Oversight of Trans-Alaska Pipeline"

"Environmentalists, fishermen and others in the Copper River region are spearheading a new effort to boost citizen monitoring of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline."

Source: Anchorage Daily News, 01/26/2010

Need, Safety of Maine Cleanup Questioned

"AUGUSTA, Maine — State environmental officials began making their case Monday for a $200 million cleanup of the HoltraChem site in Orrington, arguing that contaminants in five outdated landfills threaten groundwater supplies and the Penobscot River."

Source: Bangor Daily News, 01/26/2010

"Railroads, Utilities Clash Over Dust From Coal Trains"

"An effort by railroad companies to control dust blowing from coal trains has drawn the wrath of electric-power generators and the attention of federal regulators."

Source: Greenwire, 01/26/2010

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