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Science, Environment, & the 2010 Pulitzers
April 13, 2010 11:24 AMA tip o’ the hat to these science, environment, and health related Pulitzer winners: Public Service – The Bristol Herald Courier, Virginia: “For the work of Daniel Gilbert in illuminating the murky mismanagement of natural-gas royalties... Continue reading
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A Rosy Future for Cancer Vaccines?
April 12, 2010 12:01 PMThere’s a trope in medicine that doctors only have three ways of dealing with cancer: cutting (surgery), burning (radiation), and poisoning (chemotherapy). Oncologists have long sought a fourth path—using the body’s own immune system to attack tumors—but progress has been... Continue reading
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Calling Katrina
April 6, 2010 04:07 PMThe New Orleans Times-Picayune’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina from August to December 2005 has been named one of the top ten works of journalism of the decade in the United States. With less than two months until the... Continue reading
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Got Science Reporters?
April 2, 2010 03:30 PMOn the last Friday in March, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism announced the staff of its California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting, launched in September 2009 after a short... Continue reading
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Dot Earth Moves to NYT Opinion Section
April 1, 2010 06:00 AMAfter two-and-a-half years and 940 posts as a news blog, Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth site will be moving to the Opinion section of The New York Times’s Web site, according to an announcement he posted Wednesday... Continue reading
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More on Weathermen as Climate Skeptics
March 30, 2010 01:37 PMThe New York Times’s front-page story on high levels of climate skepticism among TV weather forecasters might have seemed a bit familiar to regular CJR readers. That’s because the cover story of our January/February issue provided... Continue reading
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Meat vs. Miles
March 29, 2010 03:44 PMFor the last four years, media outlets such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Fox News have repeatedly cited a United Nations study which found that livestock production is responsible... Continue reading
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Stories Percolate on World Water Day
March 23, 2010 12:20 PMBy 2025, 1.8 billion people are expected to live in areas where water is scarce—a prediction, among many troubling others, that was highlighted during World Water Day on Monday. The sixteenth annual event, sponsored by the United Nations,... Continue reading
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Monitor-ing the Environment
March 9, 2010 10:42 AMIn recent years, blogs have become a popular way for newspapers to handle specialized topics like science and the environment. At least one outlet has tried that and decided to go back to a newsroom-wide approach, however. In mid-February, The... Continue reading
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Whither the Watershed
March 3, 2010 04:47 PMLast weekend, the monstrous snowstorm that walloped the northeast prevented me from attending an event that I’d been looking forward to for months – a conference in Louisville focused on science journalism in the Ohio River... Continue reading
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The Upshot of Embargoes
February 24, 2010 04:52 PMA longstanding and controversial topic of conversation within the science journalism community—news embargoes on peer-reviewed research articles—will now receive regular scrutiny at a new blog launched by one of the country’s top medical writers. On Tuesday, Ivan Oransky,... Continue reading
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Post Capitol-izes on Snow
February 17, 2010 01:50 PMBeneath the snowstorm-induced climate feuding that has pervaded the media for the last few weeks, an interesting thing is happening: The Washington Post, a national newspaper, is distinguishing itself with local weather coverage. During the first half of... Continue reading
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Snow Fights
February 16, 2010 04:19 PMLast week, in a front-page story, The New York Times responded to the latest instance of global warming skeptics seizing on big snowstorms in the east to argue that the threat of rising temperatures is all cock and... Continue reading
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U.S. Press Digs Into IPCC Story
February 15, 2010 10:04 AMA couple of America’s leading media outlets finally dug into the recent controversy surrounding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last week. The Observatory first criticized U.S. news outlets two weeks ago for not paying more attention to... Continue reading
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The Long View on Green
February 10, 2010 04:45 PMFrom Three Mile Island to the cap-and-trade debates on Capitol Hill, H. Josef Hebert spent over half of his forty-year career at the Associated Press covering energy and the environment. In January, the sixty-five-year-old reporter—who flew to the 1997 Kyoto... Continue reading
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USA Today Wins Oakes Award
February 4, 2010 07:00 PMA USA Today investigation which found that the air outside thousands of schools across the country could be at least twice as toxic as the air in nearby neighborhoods—and sometimes ten times higher—has won the 2009... Continue reading
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WSJ Cancels Energy/Environment Blog
February 3, 2010 03:55 PMAfter a mere two-year run, The Wall Street Journal has, for some inexplicable reason—or, rather, for some reason it refuses to explain—canceled its highly regarded energy blog, Environmental Capital. Three weeks ago, the blog’s lead author, Keith Johnson, unexpectedly posted... Continue reading
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Criticism of IPCC Continues
February 2, 2010 07:08 PMAmerican media are still missing in action on the controversy currently embroiling the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition to the criticisms related to glaciers and natural disasters, the IPCC came under fire last week for a... Continue reading
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MIA on the IPCC
January 29, 2010 12:26 PMAlmost two weeks ago, the Sunday Times, a British newspaper, “broke” the story that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had made significant errors in its 2007 report on the impacts of global warming. (Indian journalist... Continue reading
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Reporters Doubling as Docs in Haiti
January 20, 2010 05:15 PMProminent television journalists who are also certified doctors have been treating injured patients amidst the recovery and relief efforts in Haiti, sparking debate about journalistic ethics and the role of M.D. medical correspondents in crisis situations. The trend has emerged... Continue reading
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