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1. Campaign Desk

   A “Slow-Blog” Movement?

   February 1, 2008 03:06 PM

   A cryptic quote from Bill Clinton about how dealing with climate change will affect the economy is causing quite a stir in political circles and the blogosphere. It all stems from a post on ABC News's Political Punch blog,... Continue reading

2. The Observatory

   WSJ Launches New Environment Blog

   January 31, 2008 12:40 PM

   The Wall Street Journal launched a new environment blog yesterday, called Environmental Capital. It stirred some immediate debate over at The New York Times' Dot Earth blog, where Andrew Revkin asked if it was a "sign of... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   The Candidates on California’s Emissions Waiver

   January 29, 2008 11:13 AM

   Since the Iowa caucuses, campaign-trail discourse about climate change and energy has waned. "Media consign global warming to back burner," read one headline in The San Francisco Chronicle last week. That is certainly true to a certain extent, and... Continue reading

4. The Observatory

   News Director Quits Over Hospital Deal

   January 25, 2008 09:37 AM

   A week and a half ago, Glen Mabie resigned as news director for WEAU-TV in Eau Claire, Wisconsin after one year on the job. Mabie's resignation was an act of protest against the station's plan to form an exclusive coverage... Continue reading

5. The Observatory

   Bismarck Tribune Walks a Tightrope

   January 24, 2008 11:55 AM

   Global warming, as the name implies, is a whole-Earth problem. The climate does not differentiate between greenhouse gases produced in the United States and those produced in China. Because of this, the press tends to focus on national and international... Continue reading

6. The Observatory

   The MRSA-Gay Connection

   January 22, 2008 09:00 AM

   The press performed a minor mea culpa over the weekend, explaining that a new multidrug-resistant and especially virulent strain of MRSA staph infection, USA300, is not the new "gay disease." Articles on Newsweek's Web site on Friday and in... Continue reading

7. The Observatory

   Journalism 2.0 on Science 2.0

   January 17, 2008 11:47 AM

   Web 2.0 - the "second generation" Internet of user-oriented social networks, wikis, blogs, and information-tagging devices - has spawned at least two progeny since Tim O'Reilly coined the term in 2004: Journalism 2.0 and Science 2.0. Scientific... Continue reading

8. The Observatory

   Pushing for a Science Debate

   January 15, 2008 08:00 AM

   The day after the New Hampshire primary, the CEO of Clean Air-Cool Planet, an environmental group, contributed an op-ed to London's Daily Telegraph in which he asserted that, "The press hasn't reported on it but the real story from... Continue reading

9. The Observatory

   CJR Launches The Observatory

   January 15, 2008 07:00 AM

   Columbia Journalism Review is proud to announce the launch of The Observatory, a full-time department dedicated to critiquing the press coverage of science and the environment. The Observatory will launch on CJR's Web site, www.cjr.org. In 2007,... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Rolling Craps in New Hampshire

    January 11, 2008 09:52 AM

    Journalists, politicians and statisticians continue to scramble to figure out why, exactly, the polls predicting an easy victory for Barack Obama going into the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday were so terribly wrong. But polling was not the only device... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    “Pundits, Savants and Gurus,” Oh My!

    January 9, 2008 03:46 PM

    Two minutes before the polls closed in New Hampshire on Tuesday night, CNN's Jeff Toobin said to Anderson Cooper, "I'm wondering if this is the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning?" It's now clear... Continue reading

12. The Observatory

    Weighing the Environmental Vote

    January 7, 2008 04:47 PM

    On New Year's Eve, three days before the Iowa caucuses began, The Des Moines Register published a campaign story under the headline, "Environmental issues get unprecedented focus." While this is undoubtedly true, not only in Iowa, but also nationwide,... Continue reading

13. The Observatory

    Science And Religion

    January 3, 2008 01:37 PM

    As Iowans prepare to go caucusing, the journal Science offers a ten-page special report* on four Democrats and five Republicans' views on science and science policy; the introduction laments that, "So far, with the exception of global warming, [these... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    No Such Thing as Dumb Questions?

    December 19, 2007 04:05 PM

    The League of Conservation Voters has issued a challenge to the top cable and network TV news reporters: quit asking dumb questions and confront the presidential candidates on climate change. The group has analyzed footage and transcripts from... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Climate Goes Prime-Time with Couric

    December 12, 2007 12:28 PM

    Global warming went prime-time last night as CBS's Katie Couric asked each of the presidential candidates to answer a single question: Is the threat of climate change "overblown?" The segment lasted only seven minutes and didn't reveal anything new,... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    Iowa Hog Farms and Presidential Politics

    December 11, 2007 03:32 PM

    With less than month until the first presidential caucus, the media are turning more of their attention to Iowa, where voters will head to the polls on January 3. This morning (between segments focused on how an ice... Continue reading

17. Behind the News

    Journal Plays a Broken Record

    December 7, 2007 03:07 PM

    The disconnect between The Wall Street Journal's excellent coverage of climate change as a credible, man-made threat, and its editorial opinion that global warming is a lot of, well, hot air, is well established. This week, the opinion page... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    A Silver Lining at the Union-Tribune

    December 5, 2007 10:41 AM

    Tough times at the The San Diego Union-Tribune - the paper wants to cut 43 newsroom employees. After buying out nineteen others last year, that's over 10 percent of the 360 people the paper has left there. The buyouts... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Staying Together for The Earth

    December 5, 2007 09:38 AM

    Yesterday, news outlets around the country jumped on a particularly lame study that just appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. It finds that rising divorce rates around the world are bad for the environment... Continue reading

20. Behind the News

    Fake Press Release Tricks the Morning News

    December 4, 2007 02:46 PM

    Despite some 1,500 articles from around the world already (according a Google search), there is as yet little news coming out of the United Nations climate conference in Bali, which started yesterday. There was, however, some related mischief back in... Continue reading

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