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The Importance of Energy Reporters
A Q&A with the NYT’s Matthew Wald about Japan’s nuclear crisis
By Cristine Russell Apr 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has underscored the importance of specialized energy reporters. Unfortunately,... More
LAT On Why Solyndra Dazzled the Private and Public Sectors
By Ryan Chittum Sep 26, 2011 at 06:23 PM
The Los Angeles Times has a really good look at the failure of Solyndra, the solar-power company that went bankrupt... More
USA Today’s oily, gassy rainbow
Detailed cover story a bit too rosy about ‘energy independence’
By Curtis Brainard May 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
USA Today sees an oily, gassy rainbow on America’s energy horizon. “Energy independence isn’t just a pipe dream,” read a... More
Wichita Eagle Eyes Regulatory Cracks Before a Failure
By Ryan Chittum Oct 5, 2011 at 05:47 PM
Here's a solid Wichita Eagle report that shows the holes in a regulatory system—ones that could have deadly consequences. What... More
A Dim-Bulb Story From the Washington Post
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2012 at 07:58 PM
New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman's office this afternoon sent out a press release hammering the Washington Post's page-one story on... More
A Referendum on Energy Issues?
Not so fast
By Curtis Brainard and Cristine Russell Nov 5, 2010 at 05:14 PM
There is something ironic about the post-election surge of articles about the environmental consequences of various outcomes at the polls... More
Audit Notes: College Sports, NY AG Probing Lehman Execs, Shale Drilling
By Ryan Chittum Sep 13, 2011 at 07:46 PM
— Taylor Branch's cover story in the new Atlantic is a devastating indictment of the NCAA, a must-read for anyone... More
Audit Notes: Dark Ages, Mitt and Rupert, Chesapeake’s taxes
Stephen Moore on how “the greens” supposedly want to plunge America into darkness
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Wall Street Journal editorial page's Stephen Moore uses the power outage in DC as a warning about what life... More
Audit Notes: Energy Economy, Insider Trading, Mortgage Settlement
By Ryan Chittum Feb 9, 2012 at 11:55 PM
Here's a good Wall Street Journal page-one story on how the energy boom is driving economic activity across the U.S.... More
Audit Notes: Fox on Energy, Journalists and Programmers, Bloomberg
By Ryan Chittum Mar 7, 2012 at 01:29 AM
Media Matters has an amusing compilation of Fox News reactions to $4 a gallon gasoline in 2008, when George W.... More
Audit Notes: N.J., Paragon of Clean Government; Algae Fuel, Fees, The Rich (UPDATED)
By Ryan Chittum Mar 23, 2012 at 07:35 PM
Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil just guts a Center for Public Integrity report card on state corruption. It found that New Jersey... More
Audit Notes: Overdraft Ethics, CNN’s Wall Street Apologist, U.S. Gas Boom
By Ryan Chittum Oct 7, 2011 at 08:06 PM
American Banker's Jeff Horwitz finds some emails that offer an interesting look into how banks make unethical decisions to gouge... More
Audit Notes: Rocket Internet, Gas Taxes, The Price of Health Care
By Ryan Chittum Mar 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM
Bloomberg BusinessWeek has a good story on a German company that makes its living ripping off American websites and taking... 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
Boom Towns Amid the Bust
NPR finds “man camps” and $1,200 parking spaces in North Dakota
By Ryan Chittum Sep 27, 2011 at 12:20 PM
This paragraph jumps out from an NPR's All Things Considered report on an oil boom town in North Dakota: Two... More
Candidates clam up on climate
Reporters call out Obama and Romney’s silence
By Curtis Brainard Aug 21, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Nary a word has been spoken about climate change on the presidential campaign trail, and it’s a silence that some... More
Climate policy, act two
Reactions to Obama’s second inaugural overlook Skocpol report
By Curtis Brainard Jan 23, 2013 at 11:30 AM
It was great to see The New York Times give front-page treatment to the unexpected weight that President Obama put... More
Climate Questions for the GOP
What to ask candidates so clearly unconcerned?
By Curtis Brainard Jun 21, 2011 at 02:15 PM
During last week’s Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire, CNN’s John King, who served as moderator, asked questions about... More
Debunking the ‘war on coal,’ take two
The AP gets it right the second time around
By Curtis Brainard Oct 23, 2012 at 11:00 AM
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Such was The Associated Press’s approach this month to explaining the... More
Digging for dark money
Guardian, CPI expose secretive climate-denial funding network
By Curtis Brainard Feb 19, 2013 at 03:20 PM
Just over a year ago, Peter Gleick, a scientist and climate-change activist, obtained a cache of internal documents from The... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”
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.
