Consumer Revolution on the Web: Overview

A comprehensive overview of CJR’s recent consumer reporting conference

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 23, 2008 at 03:03 PM

On November 20th 2008, nearly 100 participants from several regions of the United States and from Denmark, Norway and Ireland... More

The Year in Science Journalism

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 22, 2008 at 01:54 PM

Over at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Charlie Petit has a fun roundup of over half a dozen publications and... More

Science Groups Protest CNN Cuts

CASW, NASW, SEJ, and WFSJ issue first-ever joint letter

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 22, 2008 at 01:36 PM

Four of the world’s largest science and environmental journalism groups issued their first-ever joint statement today in a letter sent... More

Everybody’s a Critic

Where professional journalists must make a stand in consumer reporting

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 19, 2008 at 11:49 AM

What is a professional consumer reporter do to when the Internet has empowered anybody to be a critic of everything... More

Q&A: Andrew Revkin

NYT reporter discusses climate, sustainability, and long-haul reporting

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 16, 2008 at 04:13 PM

Last month, New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin received Columbia University’s prestigious John Chancellor Award, along with New Yorker staff... More

A One-Stop Shop for Climate Information?

Princeton startup attempts to pair journalists’ yin with scientists’ yang

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 8, 2008 at 06:30 AM

When it comes to improving the coverage of climate change, critics often suggest some variant of the idea that journalists... More

CNN Cuts Entire Science, Tech Team

Despite network’s intention to launch wire service, compete with the AP

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 4, 2008 at 06:30 AM

CNN, the Cable News Network, announced yesterday that it will cut its entire science, technology, and environment news staff, including... More

The Local Climate

Regional papers invest in multi-part series on warming

By Curtis Brainard   Dec 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM

Last week, the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media posted an interesting column by Tom Henry, environment reporter... More

Global Cooling, Confused Coverage

Politico article demonstrates gross misunderstanding of climate science, journalism

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 26, 2008 at 09:38 AM

Proving that old misunderstandings are not easily resolved, Politico published an anachronistically bad article about climate science yesterday. The piece,... More

Trimming the Hedges

Web jungle, Web garden—you decide

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 24, 2008 at 10:07 AM

It may seem like people have been gawking at the proliferation of online news sources for ages now, but it... More

On Genes and Cures, Separately

NYT, Newsweek find hooks for important stories

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 12, 2008 at 04:04 PM

Science aficionados should have appreciated yesterday’s Science Times in The New York Times. The section always does a good job... More

Crystal Balls Glow Green

Press speculates (responsibly) on key Obama environment/science picks and policies

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 7, 2008 at 04:24 PM

Reporters wasted no time this week in their rush to speculate about who president-elect Barack Obama will tap for key... More

Coal’s Curtain Call

A late spate of news as the campaigns wind down

By Curtis Brainard   Nov 4, 2008 at 05:18 PM

This morning, my colleague Liz Cox Barrett posted a brief comment about Kevin Drum’s argument that the press has “ignored”... More

Xunlight Shines on Palin

Blogs drill into governor’s speech at solar energy plant

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 31, 2008 at 02:36 PM

On Wednesday, I had a column about a number of energy and environment reporters’ reflections on their beat’s novel significance... More

Energy: Fueling the Campaign

Three reporters reflect on their beat’s novel and significant role in the election

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 29, 2008 at 09:00 AM

With less than one week to go before the most fiercely contested presidential election in recent memory, it’s time to... More

Five Questions for SEJ’s New Prez

CJR talks with Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Christy George

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 24, 2008 at 10:58 AM

At its eighteenth annual conference last week, the Society of Environmental Journalists elected Christy George, of Oregon Public Broadcasting, to... More

Transparency at Federal Science Agencies

WaPo gets marks for covering UCS “report card,” but misses important details

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 22, 2008 at 07:35 AM

Last Friday, The Union of Concerned Scientists released a “report card” grading fifteen federal agencies’ records on disclosing scientific information... More

Anchorage Daily News Traffic Soars

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 20, 2008 at 04:58 PM

When the McCain campaign announced that Sarah Palin would be the Republican vice-presidential nominee in late August, few reporters knew... More

Candidates’ Medical Records Lack Transparency

NYT’s Altman makes the most out of scant information

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 20, 2008 at 04:29 PM

The New York Times’s Lawrence K. Altman, one of the few reporters in the this country who holds an M.D.,... More

Hollow Criticism from MarketWatch

Friedman’s attempt to bash environmental journalism lacks meat

By Curtis Brainard   Oct 16, 2008 at 07:16 AM

Given that I am currently at the annual Society of Environmental Journalists conference, it seems an opportune time to comment... More