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UEA E-Mails Fail to Provoke
Wary of “Climategate,” reporters treat latest leak as minor news
By Curtis Brainard Nov 30, 2011 at 02:00 PM
Uneager, perhaps, to provoke the type of criticism that followed the dreadful coverage the “Climategate,” journalists have treated the emergence... More
Congress Nixes Climate Service
GOP lawmakers deny NOAA proposal to create central information hub
By Curtis Brainard Nov 21, 2011 at 03:45 PM
Congress has denied the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) bid to create a promising “one stop shop” for data... More
WSJ Marginalizes Muller
Climate-change op-ed didn’t run in the paper’s US edition
By Curtis Brainard Nov 17, 2011 at 05:00 PM
Media Matters, a group dedicated to bird-dogging conservative spin in the press, made a good catch last week when it... More
Frozen Planet Freezes Out Climate
BBC’s polar series unwisely sets apart episode about global warming
By Curtis Brainard Nov 16, 2011 at 02:45 PM
The BBC is taking a mild pummeling for giving foreign television networks the option not to buy an episode about... More
The Kochs and Keystone XL
InsideClimate fails to make its case about brothers’ interest in the pipeline—but it should keep trying
By Curtis Brainard Nov 9, 2011 at 04:45 PM
Koch Industries, a giant oil and energy conglomerate, has InsideClimate News, a four-year-old online news startup, in its crosshairs. In... More
Like the Odds of a Heart Attack?
The limits of medical analogies for the climate-weather connection
By Curtis Brainard Nov 3, 2011 at 12:30 PM
With the latest death toll from floods in Thailand reaching nearly 400 people, reporters have had yet another opportunity to... More
Cracking the Case
Why is it so difficult to cover investigations of environmental crimes?
By Curtis Brainard Oct 28, 2011 at 02:00 PM
The federal civil and criminal investigations of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continue to be a... More
Salazar Calls for Coverage
Interior Secretary highlights underreported environment stories
By Curtis Brainard Oct 25, 2011 at 04:15 PM
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar had a few tips for environmental journalists last week about under-covered stories on their... More
The Scientist Lives
LabX Media Group signs intent to purchase
By Curtis Brainard Oct 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM
A potential buyer has emerged to save The Scientist from early retirement. A week after it was reported that... More
Astill on Covering Forests
Grantham Prize winner discusses his series for The Economist
By Curtis Brainard Oct 14, 2011 at 11:55 AM
It’s often hard for reporters to see the forest for the trees, said James Astill, the newly anointed energy and... More
An Empty Seat
Government fails to show for science news, transparency event
By Curtis Brainard Oct 12, 2011 at 04:30 PM
Federal officials invited to participate in a public forum at the National Press Club last week about a lack transparency... More
The Scientist Closes
25th anniversary issue of the venerable magazine will be the last
By Curtis Brainard Oct 7, 2011 at 04:00 PM
Having just published a special twenty-fifth anniversary issue in October, employees of the The Scientist, a venerable monthly magazine and... More
Plant Food: Does Carbon Count?
Admirable NYT article on forests misses one important point
By Curtis Brainard Oct 6, 2011 at 11:30 AM
On Saturday, The New York Times ran a front page story about the state of the world’s forests, their role... More
CJR Event: Science News and Government Transparency
Access denied
By Curtis Brainard Oct 3, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Has the Obama administration lived up to its promise to make science more transparent and accessible to the public? An... More
Transparency Watch: A Closed Door
From the EPA to NASA, the FDA to OSHA, President Obama has failed to make science accessible
By Curtis Brainard Sep 14, 2011 at 01:44 PM
In July 2009, just months after President Obama took office promising to revolutionize government transparency, leaders of the Society of... More
Why the Sun Set on Solyndra
How the bad news about green jobs could be better
By Curtis Brainard Sep 2, 2011 at 08:00 AM
With Labor Day on the horizon, it was another grim week in green-job news, as a solar panel manufacturer in... More
Media Hurricane Hype?
Irene spurs debate about the quality of news coverage
By Curtis Brainard Aug 31, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Anderson Cooper and a CNN crew covering Irene on Sunday, August 28. Photo by Sean Hemmerle. “An Epic Deluge,” read... More
Gamey Green Jobs Coverage
NYT, others hack off slices of Brookings-Battelle report
By Curtis Brainard Aug 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM
On Tuesday, climate blogger Joseph Romm blasted a New York Times article about green jobs for ignoring “explosive” growth... More
Whose Line Is It, Anyway?
An oil-spill book relies too heavily on cut-and-paste work
By Curtis Brainard Jul 20, 2011 at 12:30 PM
This spring, Amanda Mascarelli, a freelance journalist based in Colorado, was in the process of reviewing A Sea in Flames,... More
Climate Questions for the GOP
What to ask candidates so clearly unconcerned?
By Curtis Brainard Jun 21, 2011 at 02:15 PM
During last week’s Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire, CNN’s John King, who served as moderator, asked questions about... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
