The Observatory
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
McCarthy faces transparency questions
Journalists, GOP demand more openness at EPA
By Curtis Brainard Apr 12, 2013 at 03:35 PM
Journalists and the GOP called for more transparency at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week, as Gina McCarthy, the... More
On Plan B: a Dart for Dr. Manny
A physician toes the party line on emergency contraceptives, and science takes a hit
By Sibyl Shalo Wilmont Apr 11, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Leave it to Fox News Channel's Dr. Manny (Alvarez) to scare the audience away from open and honest discussion... 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
Networks lose two veteran science reporters
ABC News and NBC News say they will replace Potter and Bazell
By Peter Sterne Apr 8, 2013 at 01:30 PM
Last month witnessed the retirement of two longtime science correspondents for network news, Ned Potter of ABC and Robert Bazell... More
Q&A: NewYorker.com editor Nicholas Thompson
On the site’s new science and technology section and blog
By Curtis Brainard Apr 4, 2013 at 04:45 PM
On Tuesday, The New Yorker launched a science and technology page on its website, along with a companion blog called... More
HeLa-cious coverage
Media overlook ethical angles of Henrietta Lacks story
By Curtis Brainard Mar 28, 2013 at 11:00 AM
A New York Times bestseller about the most widely used human cell line in biological research has inspired wide-ranging debates... More
‘The Finkbeiner Test’
Seven rules to avoid gratuitous gender profiles of female scientists
By Curtis Brainard Mar 22, 2013 at 11:00 AM
There's still a gender gap in the sciences, with far fewer women than men in research jobs, and those women... More
Nuclear knowledge
Reams of useful data now flowing from global monitoring system designed to detect weapons tests
By Peter Rickwood Mar 20, 2013 at 11:35 AM
At the height of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in 2011, whose second anniversary passed on March 11, journalists and... More
All thumbs, none green
Environment coverage is down at the Times, even if it wasn’t supposed to be
By Curtis Brainard Mar 19, 2013 at 06:58 AM
Two weeks ago, I excoriated The New York Times for canceling its Green blog a month after it had dismantled... More
Open government?
Some progress, on paper at least
By Curtis Brainard Mar 15, 2013 at 06:58 AM
Since President Obama came to the White House in 2009, federal regulatory and science agencies have taken measurable steps--on paper,... More
Windmills, tourism, and transparency
Maine blogger’s ongoing conflict-of-interest problems spark concern
By Curtis Brainard Mar 13, 2013 at 04:00 PM
The former executive director of the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, who's now a fulltime media personality covering travel and outdoors... 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
Post Newtown, AP adds ‘mental illness’ entry
Guidelines warn against conflating mental illness and violence
By Kira Goldenberg Mar 7, 2013 at 03:22 PM
After Adam Lanza killed 20 children on December 14, a host of subsequent coverage of the Newtown, CT, massacre focused... 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
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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
