SEJournal Winter 2015/2016, Vol. 25 No. 4

SEJournal
Winter 2015/2016, Vol. 25 No. 4
Read the digital version here or hotlinked stories are available in the Table of Contents below.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SEJ President's Report
On Our Watch, Say Goodbye to Tigers
By JEFF BURNSIDE

SEJ News
You Can Help Kickstart an EJ Career

Inside Story
Oregonian Reporter 'Humanizes' Harm

Reporter's Toolbox
Finding Stories with the National Inventory of Dams
By LIZ LUCAS and ANDREW KREIGHBAUM, IRE & NICAR

Freelance Files
The Life, and Why I’m Sticking It Out (for Now)
By ANGELA POSADA-SWAFFORD

Between the Lines
Author Spends Two Decades 'Hooked on a Character'

Cover Story
Ignoring the Elephant in the (News)room
By CHRISTINA M. RUSSO

EJ Academy
Journalism and Science Students Take to Field Together
By BROOK KANSIER

BookShelf Book Reviews

"Almost Anywhere: Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense"
By Krista Schlyer
Skyhorse Publishing, $24.99
Reviewed by TOM HENRY

"DDT Wars: Rescuing Our National Bird, Preventing Cancer, and Creating the Environmental Defense Fund"
By Charles F. Wurster
Oxford University Press, $24.95
Reviewed by BILL KOVARIK

"The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health"
By David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé
W.W. Norton, $26.95
Reviewed by JENNIFER WEEKS

"North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast"
By Chel Anderson and Adelheid Fischer
University of Minnesota Press, $39.95
Reviewed by STEPHANIE HEMPHILL