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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged policy

1. June 15, 2012 03:00 PM

   Adrift in a sea of (no) coverage

   For two years, little in the news about battle over National Ocean Policy

   By Curtis Brainard

   Last October, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar called on the press to pay more attention to the Obama administration’s achievements in environmental conservation. In response, The Miami Herald’s Carl Hiaasen suggested that the government give journalists more to write about, and he had a point. On Sunday, The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin had a revealing article (which should’ve gotten...

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2. November 16, 2012 11:00 AM

   Climate roller coaster back on track

   With Obama talking global warming, media see ups and downs

   By Curtis Brainard

   At his first post-election press conference on Wednesday, President Obama talked about his current position on climate change in greater detail than he’s done in two years. News outlets’ attempts to interpret the meaning of his remarks produced bewilderingly disparate takes, however, whether that involved Obama’s personal commitment to addressing the issue: “Obama vows to take personal charge of climate...

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3. October 23, 2012 11:00 AM

   Debunking the ‘war on coal,’ take two

   The AP gets it right the second time around

   By Curtis Brainard

   If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Such was The Associated Press’s approach this month to explaining the so-called ‘war on coal’ that conservative spin doctors have been peddling throughout the presidential campaign. An October 15 article by Donna Cassata failed miserably, recycling the narrative that environmental regulations under the Obama administration are the reason for recent turmoil...

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4. June 8, 2012 03:00 PM

   NSF invests in literary science journalism

   Creative nonfiction program seeks emerging writers

   By Curtis Brainard

   The National Science Foundation (NSF) doubled down on literary science journalism this year. Actually, it quintupled down. In 2010, NSF gave $50,000 to faculty members at Arizona State University to lead a course on covering science and innovation policy with “creative nonfiction” for 12 writers/communicators and 12 scholars/researchers. This year, the foundation gave the project $250,000 for an expanded program...

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