The Man Who Imagined Tablets and E-Readers

An interview with Roger Fidler of the RJI Digital Publishing Alliance

By Curtis Brainard   Jun 17, 2010 at 04:59 PM

In 1981, Roger Fidler wrote a visionary essay on the emergence of mobile reading devices like the Apple iPad and... More

BP, Government Still Thwarting Press Access

Despite promises to facilitate oil spill coverage, limited transparency persists in the Gulf

By Curtis Brainard   Jun 17, 2010 at 12:38 PM

Despite repeated promises to improve transparency, BP, the United States government, and their contractors are still inhibiting the media’s ability... More

The Siphoning Solution

More on “kinky math” and mechanical Band-Aids for the oil spill

By Curtis Brainard   Jun 7, 2010 at 03:34 PM

On Monday afternoon, BP reported that it was capturing about 11,000 barrels per day of the oil that has been... More

Mechanical Band-Aids

Press wrestles with techno-optimism while BP seeks to stop oil spill

By Curtis Brainard   Jun 3, 2010 at 03:06 PM

Thank God or whomever. The nuclear option has never been, and never will be, on the table amongst other options... More

Go Fish

Have reporters paid sufficient attention to the Gulf spill’s impact on marine life?

By Curtis Brainard   May 12, 2010 at 03:40 PM

On Tuesday morning, Agence France-Presse reported that “Louisiana's charter fishermen are slamming media coverage of the Gulf oil spill for... More

EPA Officials Demand Anonymity

“Hush-hush” conference calls anger reporters

By Curtis Brainard   May 7, 2010 at 02:47 PM

Twice in the last three months, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered reporters not to name the agency officials... More

Crude Coverage at the Times

News analysis displays gross lack of concern about Gulf spill

By Curtis Brainard   May 4, 2010 at 03:30 PM

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded on April 20, causing the massive oil spill currently unfolding in the Gulf... More

The Voice of the Affected

How the media are improving humanitarian aid post-Haiti

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 26, 2010 at 10:25 AM

A team of media-development experts that has been working with radio stations in earthquake-damaged Haiti to provide critical information to... More

Maternal Mortality Mix-Up

Press turns out disjointed coverage of politics, data

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 14, 2010 at 04:07 PM

A slew of news articles this week have focused on two recent reports about the number of women who die... More

Science, Environment, & the 2010 Pulitzers

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 13, 2010 at 11:24 AM

A tip o’ the hat to these science, environment, and health related Pulitzer winners: Public Service – The Bristol Herald... More

A Rosy Future for Cancer Vaccines?

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette thinks so

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 12, 2010 at 12:01 PM

There’s a trope in medicine that doctors only have three ways of dealing with cancer: cutting (surgery), burning (radiation), and... More

Calling Katrina

New Orleans Times-Picayune’s 2005 hurricane coverage included in NYU’s “Top 10 Works of the Decade”

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 6, 2010 at 04:07 PM

The New Orleans Times-Picayune’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina from August to December 2005 has been named one of the top... More

Got Science Reporters?

New USC health news service stirs debate because it doesn’t

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 2, 2010 at 03:30 PM

On the last Friday in March, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism announced the staff... More

Dot Earth Moves to NYT Opinion Section

Revkin: “I will say what I think, in ways I could not before”

By Curtis Brainard   Apr 1, 2010 at 06:00 AM

After two-and-a-half years and 940 posts as a news blog, Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth site will be moving to the... More

More on Weathermen as Climate Skeptics

NYT weighs in with front-page treatment

By Curtis Brainard   Mar 30, 2010 at 01:37 PM

The New York Times’s front-page story on high levels of climate skepticism among TV weather forecasters might have seemed a... More

Meat vs. Miles

Coverage of livestock, transportation emissions hypes controversy

By Curtis Brainard   Mar 29, 2010 at 03:44 PM

For the last four years, media outlets such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Fox News... More

Stories Percolate on World Water Day

National Geographic dives in with special issue

By Curtis Brainard   Mar 23, 2010 at 12:20 PM

By 2025, 1.8 billion people are expected to live in areas where water is scarce—a prediction, among many troubling others,... More

Monitor-ing the Environment

The CSM cancels green blog in favor of a broader approach

By Curtis Brainard   Mar 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM

In recent years, blogs have become a popular way for newspapers to handle specialized topics like science and the environment.... More

Whither the Watershed

A field guide to environmental journalism in the Ohio River Valley

By Curtis Brainard   Mar 3, 2010 at 04:47 PM

Last weekend, the monstrous snowstorm that walloped the northeast prevented me from attending an event that I’d been looking forward... More

The Upshot of Embargoes

Oransky launches blog examining controversial publishing standard

By Curtis Brainard   Feb 24, 2010 at 04:52 PM

A longstanding and controversial topic of conversation within the science journalism community—news embargoes on peer-reviewed research articles—will now receive regular... More