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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
Selling Science
Two Articles Wonder How to Encourage More Research
By Curtis Brainard Jul 16, 2007 at 09:09 AM
Two weeks ago, The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story called "The Amateur Hour" about how "America's basement... More
Calling Captains Nemo and Ahab
Tales from the deep
By Curtis Brainard Jul 13, 2007 at 01:11 PM
This week, reporters raised two fascinating stories from the ocean depths. The first, which got a lot of press coverage,... More
Listening to Live Earth
Did Audiences “Hear” the World’s Biggest Concert?
By Curtis Brainard Jul 10, 2007 at 10:40 AM
As the twenty-four-hour, seven-continent, do-something-about-climate-change Live Earth concert was drawing to a close on Saturday, Microsoft reported that the event... More
Of Bootlegged Liquor and Heavy Cars
What Sweden Will and Won’t Sacrifice for the Environment
By Curtis Brainard Jul 6, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Forget France, the U.K., Germany, and Italy. They may be G8 members, but Sweden is the country out to make... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
