"Washington Post Acquires Climate-Conspiracy Blog"
"The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog of climate conspiracy theorists, is now part of the Washington Post."
Source: Grist, 01/24/2014
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"SCIENCE: Targets of Climate Hate Mail Rally To Support One Another"
"In late March 2012, Kari Norgaard, a University of Oregon sociology and environmental studies professor, was flying home from a conference in England. She landed in Washington, D.C., checked her email and noticed a message from Marc Morano, a global warming skeptic who runs the blog Climate Depot, criticizing the research she had presented at the conference."
Source: ClimateWite, 01/24/2014
Fund for Environmental Journalism Announces Winter 2013 Grantees
Thanks to generous funding from the Grantham Foundation, and individual members and friends of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), we are pleased to announce grants totaling $12,500 to five journalism projects selected in SEJ’s Fund for Environmental Journalism Winter 2013 grant cycle. Pictured: FEJ grantee Douglas Haynes.
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Reply of January 22, 2014 from Barbara Reynolds, CDC Public Affairs Director
Here is the text of an e-mail reply of January 22, 2014, from CDC Public Affairs Director Barbara Reynolds to the letter of January 20 from SEJ and SPJ on press access obstacles after the Charleston, WV, water contamination crisis.
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Reply of January 22, 2014 from Barbara Reynolds, CDC Public Affairs Director
Here is the text of an e-mail reply of January 22, 2014, from CDC Public Affairs Director Barbara Reynolds to the letter of January 20 from SEJ and SPJ on press access obstacles after the Charleston, WV, water contamination crisis.
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FAA Nixes Drones for Journos
Drones might count as new media — and certainly have journalistic uses in covering everything from prairie fires to chemical emergencies. The federal government, which devotes enormous technical resources to spying on its citizens, now says this is illegal. The Federal Aviation Administration issued the ruling, saying there was no grey area: hobbyists can legally fly video drones. But journalists can not. Image: Cade Cleavelin, a science/ag journalism senior at U of Missouri, demonstrates a DJY Phantom quadcopter at the 2013 SEJ Conference in Chattanooga, TN. © Roger Archibald.
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The Promise of Flight: Drones and Environmental Journalism
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SEJ, SPJ Say Agency Media Obstacles Hurt Public Confidence in Water, Safety
Journalists had trouble overcoming EPA and CDC press office obstacles and getting access to agency experts and officials during this month's drinking water contamination crisis in Charleston, WV. SEJ and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) have sent a letter of complaint to heads of both agencies and their press offices. We urge them to adopt specific practices to end press office stonewalling and increase transparency, especially in times of crisis.
[UPDATE: Reply of January 29, 2014, from EPA Assoc. Adm. for Ext. Affairs Tom Reynolds]
[UPDATE: Reply of January 22, 2014, from CDC Public Affairs Director Barbara Reynolds]
[UPDATE: "CDC: Pregnant Women Should Have Been Warned About Water Sooner," Charleston Gazette, January 22, 2014, by Ken Ward Jr.]
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"Global Warming Denial Hits a 6-Year High"
"The latest data are out on the prevalence of global warming denial among the US public. And they aren't pretty."
Source: Mother Jones, 01/17/2014
"This Is How Little Time Television News Devotes To Climate Change"
"WASHINGTON -- Climate change got more coverage on broadcast news in 2013 than in the previous few years, but the issue still didn't get nearly as much attention as it did in 2009, Media Matters found in a new analysis."
Source: Huffington Post, 01/16/2014
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