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Invasive Moths: To Spray or Not To Spray?
Hard to tell from the Chronicle’s coverage
By Eric Simons Jul 2, 2008 at 03:39 PM
San Francisco, Calif. — In late June, the California Department of Food and Agriculture canceled plans to spray a pheromone... More
Vision Quest
KQED’s new science program offers a glimpse of the future
By Eric Simons Nov 13, 2007 at 11:14 AM
Josh Rosen, a producer with San Francisco public television’s Quest science program, likes to say that his job is to... More
Darwin Mania!
Journalists devote reams to his 200th birthday – does he deserve it?
By Eric Simons Feb 12, 2009 at 09:53 AM
The problem with Barack Obama, as I’ve been telling friends in the Bay Area for the last few weeks, is... 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)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
