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1. December 29, 2010 01:11 PM

   Best of 2010: The Observatory

   Curtis Brainard picks the top stories from 2010

   By Curtis Brainard

   1. “New” Media Crucial in Aftermath of Haitian Earthquake With standard telephone, radio, and television communications disabled, “new” media platforms such s Twitter, Skype, and YouTube, were critical to delivering early information about damage and relief efforts in the aftermath of the 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12. 2. Reporters Doubling as Docs in Haiti Following the earthquake,...

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2. December 23, 2010 04:45 PM

   Climate Change 101

   Trio of articles re-cover some global warming basics

   By Curtis Brainard

   A little more than a year ago, there was a feeling among many editors and reporters that the climate-change story had, in a sense, progressed since the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) watershed Fourth Assessment Report in 2007. Following the release of that report, coverage of climate science soared, with innumerable articles laying out the basics...

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3. January 10, 2011 01:16 PM

   Climate Conundrums

   Slack coverage, quality issues stir debate

   By Curtis Brainard

   2010 was “the year climate coverage ‘fell off the map,’” The Daily Climate, a website that tracks related news and media stories, reported last Wednesday. The assertion, based on a review of the site’s own database as well as others assembled by Drexel University’s Robert Brulle and the University of Colorado’s Maxwell Boykoff, is just one of a string of...

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4. November 28, 2012 03:30 PM

   Dull news from Doha

   UN climate summit a ho-hum affair for the press

   By Curtis Brainard

   The United Nations climate-change summit that began in Doha, Qatar, on Monday has so far been a ho-hum affair for the press. Most American news outlets didn’t even bother to send a correspondent, reflecting a general decline in attendance at the annual meeting by North American and European journalists. Coverage may pick up as the two-week confab wears on, but...

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5. November 24, 2010 01:57 PM

   From Copenhagen to Cancun

   A challenging year for the climate story

   By Cristine Russell

   It’s been a challenging time for the climate change story on just about every front. A year ago, the unauthorized release of a cache of controversial e-mails written by prominent climate scientists created a media firestorm just before the United Nations climate-change summit in Copenhagen. The international effort to strike a treaty that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions went down in...

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