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Mediaphobia at the IPCC
Letter steers scientists away from the press, despite recent calls for transparency
By Curtis Brainard Jul 12, 2010 at 03:44 PM
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seems to have caught a touch of mediaphobia from last year’s largely debunked controversies... More
Meet the AP’s New Oil Spill Editor
A Q&A with Steve Gutkin
By Curtis Brainard Jul 9, 2010 at 10:40 AM
At the end of June, the Associated Press announced that it had named an oil spill editor, Steve Gutkin, to... More
Shameful Obstinacy at The Sunday Times
Paper finally retracts Amazongate, aggressive-blondes articles
By Curtis Brainard Jul 8, 2010 at 04:00 PM
On Wednesday, I argued that the mounting rebuttal of the recent controversies related to the so-called “Climategate” e-mails and alleged... More
Uproar at ScienceBlogs.com
Protesting Pepsi’s new nutrition blog, writers defect from respected site
By Curtis Brainard Jul 8, 2010 at 08:00 AM
At least two well-respected science journalists and a handful of scientists have canceled their blogs at the popular and heretofore... More
Wanted: Climate Front-Pager
Reviews vindicating scientists get strong blog coverage, but more high-profile stories are needed
By Curtis Brainard Jul 7, 2010 at 04:30 PM
Over the last two days, two reports have, respectively, reaffirmed the integrity of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on... More
ProPublica and Frontline with a Save on BP
Another giant toxic emission from the oil giant goes undernoticed until now
By Ryan Chittum Jul 6, 2010 at 08:27 AM
That one almost slipped through the cracks. A month ago, the Galveston Daily News's T.J. Aulds broke a big story... More
Get Out of Her Hair
Sadly, NPR profile focuses on Fiorina’s coiffure rather than climate gaffe
By Sam Kornell Jul 1, 2010 at 03:42 PM
Earlier this week, NPR profiled California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. The former Hewlett Packard CEO unexpectedly won the state’s Republican... More
Finding the Right Expert
How reporters should use a controversial new study categorizing scientists’ stances on global warming
By Curtis Brainard Jun 29, 2010 at 02:15 PM
A controversial new study that categorizes climate scientists as either “convinced” or “unconvinced” by the basic tenets of manmade global... More
BizWeek: BP Has Us Over a Barrel
By Ryan Chittum Jun 29, 2010 at 09:22 AM
We've been on the watch for BP's PR line, and it's been popping up at an alarming rate in the... More
Bringing Energy Home
Can local reporting help break the cycle of inaction?
By Curtis Brainard Jun 23, 2010 at 05:32 PM
The vast majority of Americans want a “fundamental overhaul” of the country’s energy policies, according to the latest nationwide New... More
BP, Government Still Thwarting Press Access
Despite promises to facilitate oil spill coverage, limited transparency persists in the Gulf
By Curtis Brainard Jun 17, 2010 at 12:38 PM
Despite repeated promises to improve transparency, BP, the United States government, and their contractors are still inhibiting the media’s ability... More
All Talk and No Oil Cap Makes Barack A Dull Boy
A roundup of press coverage of and reaction to Obama’s Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill
By Alexandra Fenwick Jun 16, 2010 at 02:52 PM
Eight weeks into the biggest oil spill disaster in American history and beset by criticism of the federal reaction to... More
Like Oil, Few Answers Rise to Surface
Replies to some of our readers’ “seeping questions” about the Gulf spill
By Ethan Scholl Jun 11, 2010 at 12:04 PM
Editor’s Note: In a recent News Meeting question, CJR asked readers what they wanted to know about the ongoing oil... More
Going underwater with the AP
By Clint Hendler Jun 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Via Joe Strupp (once of Editor & Publisher, now with Media Matters) here's a clip of AP reporter Rich Matthews... More
The Siphoning Solution
More on “kinky math” and mechanical Band-Aids for the oil spill
By Curtis Brainard Jun 7, 2010 at 03:34 PM
On Monday afternoon, BP reported that it was capturing about 11,000 barrels per day of the oil that has been... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
