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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Ken Salazar

1. October 25, 2011 04:15 PM

   Salazar Calls for Coverage

   Interior Secretary highlights underreported environment stories

   By Curtis Brainard

   Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar had a few tips for environmental journalists last week about under-covered stories on their beat. Speaking at the Society of Environmental Journalists’ twenty-first annual conference here in Miami, Salazar said that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 revealed that Americans were “hungry” for news about its causes and consequences, and that they...

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2. November 14, 2012 12:00 PM

   Salazar threatens to ‘punch out’ reporter

   Interior Secretary angered by tough questions at Obama campaign event

   By Curtis Brainard

   Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar threatened to “punch out” a journalist for having the temerity to ask him questions about public policy at an Election-Day event in Colorado last week. Salazar was at an Obama campaign office in Fountain, CO, as part of a tour through the state to support the president and encourage voter turnout. Dave Philipps, a...

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