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The Importance of Energy Reporters

A Q&A with the NYT’s Matthew Wald about Japan’s nuclear crisis

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has underscored the importance of specialized energy reporters. Unfortunately,... More

Crisis Juggling in Japan

Reporters struggle to balance quake, tsunami, nuclear coverage

The triple disaster. The triple whammy. Both terms are now common in media accounts of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear-plant disaster that has... More

False Tidals

Not-quite words for natural disasters

Disasters bring out the best in journalism and journalists, and the cataclysmic events in Japan are no different. But in... More

Native News from Nippon

A sampling of English-language Japanese news outlets online

When disaster strikes in one part of the world, the rest of the world struggles to get as close as... More

Pessimism Reigns a Year After Fukushima

Media forecast a gloomy future for the nuclear industry

The barrage of stories worldwide on the first anniversary of the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant provided... More

Political Aftershocks

Reactions to a disaster abroad, at home

The news cycle being what it is, it’s not surprising that we’ve taken to navel-gazing just days after the Japanese... More

Quaking in California

Articles about the “big one” short on science

The 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 not only sent a tsunami barreling across the Pacific, but also... More

The Climate Context in Japan

Crisis tests media’s ability to frame nuclear debate in a world beset by energy risks

When I was a young journalist working as the environment editor for a Thai newspaper back in the 1990s, one... More

A word from our sponsor

Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch

Phone rage

One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance

Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media

The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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