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natural gas
“Frack”-tious Reactions
Skirmishes follow recent coverage of shale-gas drilling
By Curtis Brainard Mar 3, 2011 at 01:45 PM
The former head of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection is not happy with The New York Times’s Ian Urbina and... 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
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
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
Excellent Reuters Probe Uncovers a CEO’s Billion-Dollar Loans
By Ryan Chittum Apr 19, 2012 at 07:51 PM
Reuters has a fantastic piece of enterprise reporting on natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy, reporting on serious conflicts of interest... More
Reuters gets a scalp
Its fantastic reporting takes down Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon
By Ryan Chittum Jan 30, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Reuters had already gotten results for its outstanding investigation into Chesapeake Energy and the conflicts of its swashbuckling CEO Aubrey... More
Reuters uncovers Chesapeake CEO’s other day job
Second probe in two weeks deals gas tycoon Aubrey McClendon another big headache
By Ryan Chittum May 2, 2012 at 05:35 PM
Reuters unloads another outstanding scoop on the sketchy doings of Chesapeake Energy Aubrey McClendon, reporting that the CEO ran a... More
Reuters’s Chesapeake Energy drumbeat
Internal emails show companies scheming to lower bids on drilling rights
By Ryan Chittum Jul 5, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reuters continues to draw a bead on Chesapeake Energy and its CEO Aubrey McClendon, whose scalp it will be claiming... 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?
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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.
