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Education or Indulgence?
Monitor series reaches out to global-warming skeptics
By Curtis Brainard Oct 9, 2007 at 09:51 AM
Not many diplomats shared Czech President Vaclav Klaus's opinion about global warming at a special meeting of the United Nations... More
Clinton Vows to Protect Science
Says she will reverse the political interference of the Bush years
By Curtis Brainard Oct 5, 2007 at 01:57 PM
Hats off to Hillary - she made a smart play yesterday, using the fiftieth anniversary of the Sputnik launch to... More
Yale Launches Climate, Media Forum
Aims to improve communication between scientists and the press
By Curtis Brainard Oct 2, 2007 at 12:33 PM
The consensus on how to improve news stories about climate change is even more solid than the consensus on global... More
Climate and the Campaign
U.S. databases v. Australian news
By Curtis Brainard Sep 28, 2007 at 11:00 AM
As the federal election rapidly approaches, climate change, energy, and environment have become leading issues among candidates and the media... More
Climate, Front And Center
Thus far, press keeps UN, White House gatherings in proper context
By Curtis Brainard Sep 25, 2007 at 03:40 PM
Today is the second day of what The New York Times labeled "Climate Week" in an editorial last Saturday. Beginning... More
What’s Healthy?
Don’t ask scientists, or the press either
By Curtis Brainard Sep 19, 2007 at 12:53 PM
What do red wine, cell phones, and daycare have in common? All have ambiguous links to human health established by... More
Precisely
USA Today galaxy story should say what it means
By Curtis Brainard Sep 13, 2007 at 04:44 PM
It could be that I'm just tired after a week covering a science journalists' conference in California, but I came... More
Environmental Journalism? Environmentalism?
An identity crisis at the SEJ conference
By Curtis Brainard Sep 11, 2007 at 11:53 AM
I suppose that when I walked into the opening reception of the Society of Environmental Journalists annual meeting last Wednesday,... More
What Kind of News do People Really Want?
Pew report studies twenty years of American preferences
By Curtis Brainard Aug 31, 2007 at 12:44 PM
It's almost fifty pages long, but well worth the read: a recent study by the Pew Research Center for People... More
Chinese Pollution in Words, Pictures and More
The New York Times makes new strides with multimedia storytelling
By Curtis Brainard Aug 28, 2007 at 01:36 PM
These days, it is rare to see a magazine or newspaper publish a special report on climate change or natural... More
Rifling Through NASA’s Closets
USA Today finds nothing, publishes anyway
By Curtis Brainard Aug 22, 2007 at 01:07 PM
Scandal is such a dangerous thing in the media. Readers devour it and always ask for more. When astronaut Lisa... More
Georgia Court Tests Mass. v. EPA
But where’s the press?
By Curtis Brainard Aug 21, 2007 at 01:04 PM
In April, I wrote that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate... More
Sun-Times Says Boycott BP
Chicago area newspapers fight permit for new pollution
By Curtis Brainard Aug 17, 2007 at 03:54 PM
The Chicago Sun-Times called for a boycott of BP today in response to a permit the oil giant received in... More
Newsweek v. Newsweek
Samuelson rebuts Begley’s cover story
By Curtis Brainard Aug 14, 2007 at 02:08 PM
I love to see columnists and reporters arguing in the pages of the same magazine, especially about climate change. This... More
To Juice or Not to Juice?
Journalists float the idea of legalizing sports doping
By Curtis Brainard Aug 8, 2007 at 02:39 PM
Point shaving, dog fighting, blood doping - it was enough to make some columnists posit that the last week of... More
Asexual Journalism?
LA Times mimics NY Times story on love and desire
By Curtis Brainard Aug 3, 2007 at 04:14 PM
Monday's Los Angeles Times carried a long feature, "This is Your Brain on Love," about neurological explanations of sexual attraction... More
Quarrel Between ACORE and CEI Draws Inhofe’s Attention
Are free speech and the future of renewable fuels at risk?
By Curtis Brainard Jul 31, 2007 at 10:22 AM
Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma may have called global warming a "hoax," but those who oppose him, and would like... More
Nature Watch
The journal takes on Darfur and The Simpsons—not at the same time
By Curtis Brainard Jul 26, 2007 at 04:05 PM
I couldn't help of but think of the theatrical masks representing tragedy and comedy after reading two articles in this... More
Rumors at Fermilab and CERN
How science, media, and gossip affect cutting-edge physics
By Curtis Brainard Jul 26, 2007 at 09:00 AM
The gossip mill is spinning in the particle physics world, with journalists, bloggers, and scientists all taking turns speculating about... More
More on Our “Innovation Ecology”
Taking Science from Lab to Market
By Curtis Brainard Jul 17, 2007 at 01:26 PM
Yesterday, I posted a column applauding two recent articles that investigated what William A. Wulf, former head of the National... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
