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Grace-ful Coverage
July 10, 2009 10:54 AM
The name Libby doesn’t conjure the same images of corporate and environmental malfeasance as Love Canal or Three Mile Island. But it should. This 2,600-person town in Montana was recently the focus of what a former prosecutor for the Justice... Continue reading
Overload!

Interview with Clay Shirky, Part II
December 22, 2008 12:02 PM
Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University and is the author, most recently, of Here Comes Everybody, about how new means of communication are changing the social environment. CJR's Russ Juskalian recently spoke with Shirky... Continue reading
Overload!

Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I
December 19, 2008 12:08 PM
Clay Shirky teaches at the Interactive Telecommunications program at New York University and is the author, most recently, of Here Comes Everybody, about how new means of communication are changing the social environment. CJR's Russ Juskalian recently spoke with Shirky... Continue reading
Overload!

Maggie Jackson on the Erosion of Attention
December 17, 2008 11:29 AM
Journalist Maggie Jackson is the author of 2008's Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. She recently talked with Russ Juskalian about the dangers of the divided attention span and how we might combat information... Continue reading
Overload!

Kluge: Gary Marcus on Attention and the Brain
December 16, 2008 11:55 AM
Gary Marcus is a professor of psychology at New York University, where he studies developmental cognitive neuroscience. In his latest book, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, he writes about the clumsy way in which our brains evolved.... Continue reading
Overload!

David Shenk on Data Smog
December 15, 2008 11:50 AM
Journalist David Shenk has been writing about the topic of information overload for over a decade. In his 1997 book Data Smog, Shenk was one of the first to identify the problem, explore it in detail, and propose... Continue reading
Overload!

How Attention Networks Work: Transcript
December 8, 2008 12:00 PM
Cognitive neuroscientist Michael Posner is an internationally recognized expert on attentional networks and cognition. CJR contributor Russ Juskalian recently talked to Posner about attention, cognition, and how media consumption affects both. This is a full transcript of their discussion.... Continue reading
The Observatory

Larry King: Curing Cancer with Consciousness
August 7, 2008 09:54 AM
In the late 1970s, after putting a homemade pyramid on her head, Judy Zebra Knight (neé Judith Darlene Hampton) says Ramtha—a 35,000-year-old warrior who supposedly led an army against the inhabitants of the mythical kingdom of Atlantis—appeared before her and... Continue reading
The Kicker

China: Just Sweeping People Under The Bed?
August 5, 2008 02:25 PM
The most recent edition of Play, The New York Times's quarterly sports magazine, had an interesting essay by freelance writer Tom Scocca, titled True or False: China is fit to play host, on the coming Olympic games. ... Continue reading
The Observatory

Book Review: Microcosm
July 31, 2008 12:36 PM
In February 1982, physicians in Medford, Oregon encountered an unknown pathogen that waged a sort of intelligent biochemical warfare against our bodies. After being ingested, the rod-shaped bacteria—small enough to fit 500 of them side-by-side across the diameter of a... Continue reading
The Observatory

Launch: Yale Environment 360
June 6, 2008 10:20 AM
Two seemingly disparate things dominate the chatter coming from the journalism world these days: coverage of the environment, and the din of confused voices calling for the ascendancy of our favorite wunderkind disruptor—digital media. Yale Environment... Continue reading
The Observatory

Flogging a “Dead” Climate Bill
May 30, 2008 11:00 AM
Washington, vis-à-vis the Bush Administration, has shirked its responsibility to take on global warming for years, so the Climate Security Act of 2008, up for debate next week in the Senate, is a big deal. The bill, co-written... Continue reading
The Observatory

The Mysterious Epigenetics
May 16, 2008 08:00 AM
When the Human Genome Project (HPG) was hot news in the press five to ten years ago, there was a flurry of stories about a fascinating field of study called epigenetics. The epigenome, we were told, was a system whereby... Continue reading
The Observatory

The Early Life of the Gas-Tax Story
May 8, 2008 01:20 PM
The possible suspension of the federal gas tax has become a big issue in the presidential race, and the latest media frenzy surrounding the candidates. As we noted last week, the press aggressively (if belatedly) attacked the idea, which... Continue reading
The Observatory

The True Color of “Green-Collar” Jobs
May 1, 2008 12:29 PM
When John Edwards bowed out of the Democratic primary in January, the presidential race lost its most vocal supporter of so called green-collar jobs. His former opponents have carried the mantle forward, however-Senator Hillary Clinton in particular, who... Continue reading
The Observatory

Gore Wants You!
April 3, 2008 11:35 AM
Last Sunday, in a mostly unremarkable 60 Minutes piece hosted by Lesley Stahl, former vice president Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection publicly launched a $300 million campaign to keep the public focused on greenhouse gases... Continue reading
The Observatory

The Wrong Debate Over Autism
March 11, 2008 10:51 AM
Back in 2005, CJR published a story by Daniel Schulman about media coverage of “whether a mercury-containing vaccine” preservative called thimerosal was to blame for an alarming spike in autism cases among a generation of children. Last summer, yet... Continue reading
The Observatory

The Wind Beneath Biofuels’ Wings
February 28, 2008 09:05 AM
As we've noted before, "green" business articles are tempting for journalists right now. That is doubly so when the story involves a Boeing 747 and a rogue billionaire who wants to save the world. So it was no wonder... Continue reading
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The Bats and the Bees
February 21, 2008 08:09 AM
With all the media coverage of the crash in honeybee populations over the last two years, and in light of the wave of stories about a potential crab-and-shark invasion of the Antarctic shelf (and subsequent population extinctions), it’s surprising... Continue reading
The Observatory

Is Sustainability Reporting Sustainable?
February 7, 2008 02:28 PM
In November, a study from the National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University found that green business stories "mushroomed" in America's ten largest newspapers last year; more than half of all those published since 2000 were printed... Continue reading

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