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climate change
‘I don’t bluff’
Michael Mann’s lawyer says National Review must retract and apologize
By Curtis Brainard Jul 25, 2012 at 02:45 PM
Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann is demanding that National Review retract and apologize for a July 15 post that... More
Frozen Planet Freezes Out Climate
BBC’s polar series unwisely sets apart episode about global warming
By Curtis Brainard Nov 16, 2011 at 02:45 PM
The BBC is taking a mild pummeling for giving foreign television networks the option not to buy an episode about... More
Frozen Planet’s Final Episode Will Air in US
Discovery Channel reverses course following wave of criticism, but what will viewers get?
By Curtis Brainard Dec 7, 2011 at 06:00 PM
Discovery Channel reversed course on Tuesday when it announced that it would air all seven parts of a BBC series... More
Momentum becomes Ensia
Univ. of Minnesota expands its environmental magazine
By Curtis Brainard Feb 8, 2013 at 03:00 PM
A nonprofit environmental magazine published by the University of Minnesota that's been quietly racking up awards for three years is... More
Salt Lake Tribune takes Grantham Prize
$75,000 award goes to series about threatened forests for second year in a row
By Curtis Brainard Jun 6, 2012 at 03:10 PM
For the second year in a row “the world’s richest journalism prize” went to a series of articles about threatened... More
WSJ Marginalizes Muller
Climate-change op-ed didn’t run in the paper’s US edition
By Curtis Brainard Nov 17, 2011 at 05:00 PM
Media Matters, a group dedicated to bird-dogging conservative spin in the press, made a good catch last week when it... More
A laurel to WLTX meteorologist Jim Gandy
For tackling climate change science in a red state where politics can polarize it
By Corey Hutchins Mar 7, 2013 at 03:00 PM
COLUMBIA, SC -- Four years ago, an academic climate change researcher and a Washington, DC-area meteorologist were looking to... More
Add It Up
Bad math mars coverage of penguin banding, climate change
By Curtis Brainard Jan 24, 2011 at 06:03 PM
In the last two weeks, reporters have repeated false numbers provided by a study and a report (and by their... More
Assignment Desk: Four stories on the Western energy beat
What’s the future of coal? What about water? And is that really a united front?
By Joel Campbell Jul 3, 2013 at 11:50 AM
PROVO, UT -- At a posh resort near Park City last weekend, the chief executives of seven Western states gathered... More
Attack of the climate-denial books
Conservative think tanks fuel publishing boom that spreads misinformation
By Cristine Russell Mar 12, 2013 at 03:00 PM
If you find Red Hot Lies in an airport bookstore or online bookseller, don't expect a juicy account of a... More
Audit Notes: Euro dissolution risk, Reuters tailed, Exxon and the press
By Ryan Chittum Jun 28, 2012 at 11:56 PM
Simon Johnson, who has warned loudly for years about the critical danger posed by too-big-to-fail banks, as well as their... More
Audit Notes: WSJ forgets climate change, Reuters results, Murdoch hides
A story on the record heat wave omits global warming
By Ryan Chittum Aug 10, 2012 at 01:24 AM
The Wall Street Journal writes 640 words on how last month was the hottest July on record—and fails to mention... More
Bad hippie!
Is it wrong to ‘scold’ exaggerations about climate and weather?
By Curtis Brainard Nov 1, 2012 at 01:00 PM
David Roberts has a long essay over at Grist complaining about "scolds" (The New York Times’s Andrew Revkin, in particular)... More
Call in the math club
Science reporters can help ward off a “Big Data bubble”
By Declan Fahy Jan 14, 2013 at 03:15 PM
A reflective piece in The New York Times’s business pages points to a critical future role for science reporters—guarding against... 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
Captain Nemo
‘Behemoth blizzard’ dominates weekend news
By Cristine Russell Feb 10, 2013 at 10:45 PM
It was all about "The Big Dig" this weekend in snow-blanketed communities from Long Island to Maine that faced a... More
CBS News hires M. Sanjayan
Lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy to cover science, environment
By Curtis Brainard Jun 1, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Network news got a little better this month. CBS News announced in early May that it had hired M. Sanjayan,... More
Climate Change 101
Trio of articles re-cover some global warming basics
By Curtis Brainard Dec 23, 2010 at 04:45 PM
A little more than a year ago, there was a feeling among many editors and reporters that the climate-change story... More
Climate Conundrums
Slack coverage, quality issues stir debate
By Curtis Brainard Jan 10, 2011 at 01:16 PM
2010 was “the year climate coverage ‘fell off the map,’” The Daily Climate, a website that tracks related news and... More
Climate Coverage Crashes
Downward spiral in English-language news media continued in 2011
By Curtis Brainard Jan 4, 2012 at 04:45 PM
Twelve months ago, The Daily Climate, a website that produces and tracks media stories about climate change, declared that 2010... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
