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2008 Green Issues Guide
Vanity Fair once again sets the bar, but has competition
By Curtis Brainard Apr 24, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Instead of switching to fluorescent light bulbs, urging my congressional representative to support climate legislation, or attending one of Manhattan's... More
Annotating Bush’s Climate Speech
Dot Earth takes a novel approach to the coverage
By Curtis Brainard Apr 17, 2008 at 03:03 PM
Yesterday, President Bush called for the United States to halt the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, and urged... More
Global Warming’s Rainmakers
News outlets launch a glut of green business conferences
By Curtis Brainard Apr 16, 2008 at 12:47 PM
News outlets large and small, in the U.S. and overseas have, for years now, talked about a coming energy "revolution"... More
Science in Arabic
A conversation with the leaders of the Arab Science Journalists Association
By Curtis Brainard Apr 15, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Last fall, CJR’s Curtis Brainard discussed the state of science journalism in the Arab world with Nadia El-Awady and Zainab... More
BP Logo Pulled from TNR’s New Blog
Readers complain about placement above energy/environment coverage
By Curtis Brainard Apr 11, 2008 at 01:01 PM
A strange thing happened Tuesday. The New Republic had just launched a new “Environment & Energy” blog on Sunday, and... More
Candidates Decline Science Debate
Proxies seem to be the only option
By Curtis Brainard Apr 9, 2008 at 01:10 PM
One thing about the scientists, academics, journalists, politicians, and business leaders pushing for a presidential debate about science - you... More
Big Play for Candidates’ Green Cred
Press revives environment’s role in the campaign…sort of
By Curtis Brainard Apr 8, 2008 at 02:00 PM
The environment's importance to the presidential campaign hit a fresh zenith, media coverage-wise, yesterday, with a Newsweek cover that asks,... More
Medical Stories Take Four Pulitzers
Investigations of health/ethics issues carry the day
By Curtis Brainard Apr 8, 2008 at 09:48 AM
Four health/medical series won Pulitzer Prizes yesterday. The Washington Post's Dana Priest, Annie Hull and photographer Michel du Cille received... More
Remember FutureGen?
American press silent while Oz launches first carbon storage plant
By Curtis Brainard Apr 4, 2008 at 01:04 PM
It was a week of firsts, but not in the U.S. In Canada, British Columbia announced "pioneering" cap-and-trade legislation yesterday,... More
E&E News Launches ClimateWire
New pub aims to dig deep into “sprawling” topic
By Curtis Brainard Apr 1, 2008 at 09:59 AM
Two months ago, a reporter interviewed me for a story about the sustainability of "green" news-whether journalists' current interest in... More
Separation Anxiety… the Antarctic Way
Did the media “hype” the latest ice shelf crumble?
By Curtis Brainard Mar 28, 2008 at 05:15 PM
All environmental reporters should sign up to receive the regular blog posts sent out by Marc Morano, the chief communications... More
CT Scans and Tobacco Funding
NYT’s reporter explains why it’s so hard to “sniff out” conflict of interest
By Curtis Brainard Mar 27, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Nick Naylor, the anti-hero and suave spin-doctor at the "Academy of Tobacco Studies" in Christopher Buckley's satirical novel, Thank You... More
Been There, Done That
Experience, climate, and the Democratic nomination
By Curtis Brainard Mar 6, 2008 at 01:47 PM
Despite the obligatory stump-speech mentions of renewable energy and "green-collar" jobs, the two remaining contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination... More
The Skeptics Ball
Heartland Institute conference tests news judgment
By Curtis Brainard Mar 4, 2008 at 02:04 PM
To cover, perhaps, but how? That has been at least one journalist's dilemma this week while dealing with a recent,... More
Wiring Journalism 2.0
Brad Stenger on the intersection of the press and computer science
By Curtis Brainard Feb 29, 2008 at 11:00 AM
How are the media adapting to the new digital technologies that power blogs, interactive graphics, and social networks? Quickly is... More
Bro, Sweet Chemistry Tat!
New blog showcases science in body ink
By Curtis Brainard Feb 27, 2008 at 05:02 PM
Yes, even science nerds get ink done - a double helix on the back, the chemical structure of serotonin on... More
Science Journalism
Past, present, and futuristic
By Curtis Brainard Feb 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Around the block from the Miracle of Science café, in a corner of Cambridge surrounding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,... More
Dispatches from AAAS
A few thoughts on meeting’s media-oriented panels
By Curtis Brainard Feb 19, 2008 at 08:00 AM
Despite the surge of recent interest in environmental articles, global warming remains a “fourth-tier” story in the press. So said... More
Dispatches from AAAS
The big news from the annual science conference
By Curtis Brainard Feb 18, 2008 at 03:45 PM
Boston - The American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting concluded here today. Every year, the extravaganza inspires... More
The Environment, Writ Small
Regional coverage has struggled to connect candidates’ general goals to local needs
By Curtis Brainard Feb 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM
On Monday, the day before the presidential primaries in Maryland, the Baltimore Sun published what has now become a... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
“[T]he most militant I have seen since the Nixon administration”
‘It was approved at the highest levels— and I mean the highest’
Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
