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Oil Spill
“Prophet of Katrina” stays put
Times-Picayune’s ace environment reporter sticks with Nola Media Group
By Curtis Brainard Jun 22, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The man The New York Times called “a prophet of Katrina’s wrath” for his prescient coverage of New Orleans’ vulnerability... More
Best of 2010: The Observatory
Curtis Brainard picks the top stories from 2010
By Curtis Brainard Dec 29, 2010 at 01:11 PM
1. “New” Media Crucial in Aftermath of Haitian Earthquake With standard telephone, radio, and television communications disabled, “new” media platforms... More
Bloomberg Examines Louisiana’s Laissez-Faire Oil Regulators
Spills go unpenalized 99 percent of the time and the state’s fines are a joke
By Ryan Chittum Feb 4, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Bloomberg has an excellent investigation into Louisiana's oil regulators, finding that the state fines oil companies for oil spill less... More
InsideClimate out front
Investigation of Kalamazoo oil spill calamity led the pack
By Curtis Brainard Jul 26, 2012 at 03:23 PM
In early July, the media covered a long awaited report from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which blamed the... More
One Year After the Spill…
…BP campaign contributions no longer “toxic”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 22, 2011 at 09:49 AM
A year, more or less, is apparently how much time had to pass after the massive BP oil spill in... 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
‘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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
