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fossil fuels
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
Equivocal Efficiency?
Some articles fail to stress bottom line of electric-vehicles report
By Curtis Brainard Apr 18, 2012 at 12:30 PM
A new report outlining regional differences in electric cars’ contribution to climate change is drawing a lot of media attention,... More
InsideClimate wins a Pulitzer
Five-year-old news site honored for exposé of Michigan oil spill
By Curtis Brainard Apr 16, 2013 at 01:45 PM
On Monday, InsideClimate News, a five-year-old investigative news outlet that is based in Brooklyn, but doesn't even have an office,... More
Keystone XL road trip
New ebook from TED Books and The Washington Post takes readers down the pipeline’s proposed path
By Curtis Brainard Apr 10, 2013 at 05:00 PM
In June 2012, a team from The Washington Post, including energy reporter Steven Mufson, photographer Michael Williamson, and videographer Whitney... More
Ryan re-energizes coverage
VP candidate brings fossil fuels, alternatives back into focus
By Curtis Brainard Aug 16, 2012 at 04:30 PM
Paul Ryan’s selection as the GOP’s candidate for vice president has renewed debate about, and coverage of, the stark differences... More
The Presidential Energy Narrative
Campaign coverage takes on a green hue
By Curtis Brainard Jan 27, 2012 at 05:30 PM
In the last week, President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, focused his first campaign ad on clean energy,... More
TNR causes trouble for coal baron
Exposé on pressuring employees to make campaign contributions stirs inquiry
By Curtis Brainard Oct 12, 2012 at 03:00 PM
The New Republic stirred up a bit of trouble for coal baron Robert Murray by revealing the aggressiveness with which... 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)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
