"Why People Still Fall For Fake News About Climate Change"
"It was the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years, and #climatescam is taking off."
Source: Grist, 12/19/2023
Journalism & Media
Want To Protect Your Sources? It Helps To Know the Law
With climate-related legal disputes playing out worldwide, we could see more environmental journalists facing subpoenas to access their newsgathering materials and reveal their sources. Case in point: the legal battle embroiling a news nonprofit over its coverage of pipeline protests. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’ Chris Young looks at shield laws and resources to help deal with legal threats to your journalistic integrity.
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#SEJSpotlight: Angela Rowlings, Independent Photojournalist; SEJ Board Member
Meet SEJ board member Angela Rowlings! Angela is an independent photojournalist based in Boston, Mass. and Prince Edward Island, Canada. She reports on climate, culture, politics, immigration and human rights issues, and produces long-form visual essays in Boston, Canada and Latin America.
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Help SEJ Support Journalists Like Bobby Magill
Bobby Magill is a journalist covering water, public lands and the Interior Department for Bloomberg Law in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on climate change and legal battles over the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, water supplies, oil and gas leasing, endangered species and other federal lands issues. You can help support journalists like Bobby by giving to SEJ programs, Fund for Environmental Journalism, annual conference diversity travel fellowships, members-in-need fund or creating a legacy with a free will.
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"Opinion: Could The Local News Crisis Get Any Worse? Look At Scranton."
"Chris Kelly writes a twice-weekly column for the Scranton Times-Tribune, his place of work for the past 27 years. For all but a few months of that tenure, his bosses have been the Lynett family, descendants of E.J. Lynett, a breaker boy in the coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania who went on to buy the newspaper in 1895. Over four generations, the Lynetts reminded staffers and their community alike of their commitment to both local journalism and local ownership."
Source: Washington Post, 12/18/2023
"Nine Climate Book Stocking Stuffers"
"These affordable paperbacks can inspire everyone on your gift list."
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 12/14/2023
NPS Teaming Up With Tribes To Tell 'More Complete Story' Of U.S. History
"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the National Park Service is launching an initiative with Native American tribes to tell “a more complete story of American history” at the country’s 428 national park sites."
Source: HuffPost, 12/11/2023
Self-Censorship Is Still Hiding in the Closet
While government censorship may worry journalists, so should self-censorship. That’s the warning in this month’s WatchDog Opinion, whether self-censorship’s “chilling effect” is driven by fears of attack, legal or physical, or by distortions in what it means to be fair, a “bothsidesism” usually pushed by one-sided players. But the bottom line, the column argues, is that when the truth is knowable and known, journalists owe it to their audiences to make the call.
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