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February 2007	2007 Science Journalism Program at the MBL
January 2007	Times' Revkin and Cato's Michaels Go Head-on on Climate Change Press
December 2006	When the News IS the News ...
November 2006	Amidst Red Ink and Pink Slips, SEJ Conference Still Energizing
October 2006	Weather Channel Tackles Global Warming On New Series, "The Climate Code" 2006 Grantham Prize Winners Detail 'Back Stories' of their Entries Longer, Earlier, More Solo Work Commutes Reported U.S. Population to Pass 300-Million Point ... What Now? 'Beyond Fossil Fuels' Environmental Themes Prevalent in Awards Inhofe Expands Critique Of Climate Coverage
September 2006	Taking on WSJ Editorial Writers What's New With Environment Writer Sticky Notes Former CNN Correspondent Finding New Reporting Outlets Report Assesses Environment Impacts As U.S. Population Nears 300 million Broadcast TV Science News Coverage Down 50 Percent Since 9-11 Terrorism Attacks S M A T T E R I N G S Webs of Interest: Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research Hedes & Tales Reading Racks
July/August 2006	Field Notes Senate Environment Chair Inhofe and Aide Take on AP/Borenstein, Brokaw, Revkin (Analysis) Network TV News E-Coverage Plummeted in 2005, Survey Finds Pete Myers of Environmental Health News AAAS, EurekAlert! Survey Shows Medicine, Health of Most Interest Climate Scientists, Reporters Swap Insights At Wilson Center Public Meeting S M A T T E R I N G S Webs of Interest: Center for Responsive Politics Hedes & Tales Reading Racks
June 2006	Just Thinking Al Gore's movie and book: Spur to more climate coverage? Also see: Environment Goes to the Movies ... Again Metcalf to Convene Climate Science Coverage Meeting July 25 at Woodrow Wilson Center Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future (Book Review) S M A T T E R I N G S Webs of Interest: Enforcement & Compliance History Online (ECHO) Hedes & Tales Reading Racks
May 2006	Sticky Note Small Northwest Newspapers Team up for Climate Project Earth Day Weekend Pieces Illustrate Times, Wall Street Journal Differences EW-Q&A: Charleston Gazette's Ken Ward SEJ 16th Annual Conference October 25-29 in Burlington, Vt. Webs of Interest: EPA National Emission Inventory Database Hedes & Tales Reading Racks
Apr 2006	Field Notes State of News Media 2006 Provides Sobering View of Journalism ... Again New NASA Media Policy Supports Freer Science Communications EW-Q&A: Dateline Earth's Lisa Stiffler and Robert McClure Ocean Acidification ... Below the Media Radar Screen? Three National Magazines Present Special Environment Coverage Book Reviews: 'Field Notes from a Catastrophe' & 'The Winds of Change' Hedes & Tales Reading Racks
Mar 2006	Just Thinking Borenstein from Knight Ridder To A.P. National Science Beat A Farewell to Otis Chandler Improved Multi-Media Skills Urged for Media and Scientists Behind The Bergen Record's 'Toxic Legacy': A Q&A with The Record's Project Leader OneAtlantic: New Example Of 'Do-It-Yourself' Journalism CBS Explains Lack of 'Balance' In "60 Minutes" Piece on Climate
Feb 2006	Sticky Note Big Differences in N.Y. Times, Washington Post Climate Change Lead Stories on January 29 Northwest Web Publication Joins Seattle Research Center Environmental Media Services -- A Smaller, More Focused Organization Reading Racks
Dec/Jan 2006	Field Notes EPA Surveys Editors on Views About Agency Research Efforts EW Q&A With 'Muckraker' Author Amanda Griscom Little A Graduate Student's Perspective: The Dripping Ice Cream 'Bomb Pop' Of Coverage of Climate Change Science LA Times Shuts Down Innovative 'Outdoors' Section
Nov 2005	Just Thinking Five Journalists Named as Judges of New Environmental Prize Scientists, Journalists Square Off in Frank Discussion about News Coverage of Climate Change Tom Rosenstiel, George Lakoff to Headline Berkeley Science Journalism Workshop Diverse Issues Demand Attention of Native American Press Book Review: Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
Oct 2005	Sticky Note Grantham Prize to Honor Journalism Excellence in Reporting on the Environment SEJ Austin Conference Strong Start, Strong Finish ... and Strong In Between Wide-Ranging Advice Offered at SEJ Conference 2005 SEJ Conference
Sep 2005	Field Notes SEJ Meeting to Focus on Texas, While Recalling Past Conferences EW-Q&A With Jim Detjen Increased Coverage in Spanish, Keyed to Hispanic Population Surge Metcalf Institute Awarded Major NSF Grant for Diversity Journalism Fellowships
Jul/Aug 2005	Just Thinking CNN's Environment Unit: End of the Road for What Remained Cool to Be Green: Why No One Wants to Read About the Environment A Student Perspective on the Shape of Science News to Come Politics and Climate Science Data Inquiry (A Tale of Two -- Make that Three -- Stories) Toxic? Or Toxin? Time to Decide? Tips for Covering A Possibly Resurgent Nuclear Industry First Risser E Journalism Prize Awarded; Rocky Mountain News Wins for 'The Last Drop' Izaak Walton League Promoting Outdoor Writers' Coverage of Population
June 2005	Sticky note EPA Decides Against TV News Grants EW-QA with Craig Pittman & Matthew Waite Reporter Certification, Professionalism Seen As Antidotes for Ailing Mainstream News Scientists and Journalists: Getting the Point Across
May 2005	Field Notes Prominent Scientists, Journalists to Gather at Lamont Workshop EW-Q&A With Marla Cone Children's Health and the Environment Bill Moyers, Molly Ivins Among Headliners Scheduled for SEJ Conference in Austin
Apr 2005	State of the News Media 2005 EW-Q&A With Douglas Fischer Coverage Continues on Mercury Issue AJR Investigates Dallas Newspaper's Air Quality Editorials Population Pressures on Coasts Continue (NOAA Population Report)
Mar 2005 (273 kB)	Michael Crichton's State of Fear: A Science Journalist Takes on a Popular Novelist EPA's "Substantial Involvement" in Television News Elicits Negative Reactions Science Writer Laurie Garrett's Impassioned Farewell to Newsday EW-Q&A With Osha Gray Davidson Post-Campaign Teresa Heinz Lambastes 'Corporatized Media' on Environmental Coverage
Feb 2005 (1.2 mB)	Kyoto Treaty Sets Stage for Local Climate Reporting Checking Blogs Can be Useful for Traditional Reporters News Coverage of Science and Environment: What's the Problem? Impressions from the Intersection of Science and Journalism Valuable Face-to-Face Science and Journalism Discussions
Dec/Jan 2005 (356 kB)	2004 Elections Set the Tone for Environment Honesty, Ethics in Journalism Rank Low; But Other Studies Provide a Counterpoint EPA Targets TV Meteorologists, Station Anchors To Impart Water Quality Information Will Overnight Ratings Replace Broadcast Consultants In Driving TV Coverage of Environment? Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News (Book Review) Rigorous AMS Procedures Set For Broadcast Meteorologist 'Seal of Approval' Mizzou Rekindles Science Journalism Project
Nov 2004 (307 kB)	SEJ Pittsburgh Meeting Attracts More than 325 Journalists, Students The Well Being of the Oceans: Building a New Momentum Book Review: The Language of Sprawl
Oct 2004 (361 kB)	'State of Beat' Report Paints Grim Picture of Broadcast, Cable TV Coverage Coverage of Growth Sprawls across Several Beats A Low-Cost Way to Help the Environment U.S. Population Growth Keeps Pace With World's Fastest Growing Countries Poynter's CBS/Rather-Inspired Ethics Advice for Reporters
Sep 2004 (370 kB)	Reform or Revolution in the Mother of Environmental Databases In Climate Change Coverage, Researchers Say Balance Equals Bias Seattle Dailies Compete on Lead in Schools Coverage Columnist Flattau Writes New Book Blasting Bush Policies
Jul/Aug 2004 (2.8 mB)	New NSF, EPA Grants Secure Science Journalism Workshops Project Media at Nieman Session Weigh Climate Change, Water Resource Issues Population & Wildlife (Backgrounder) Website Publications Continue to Evolve Environmental Health News Summary Adds Useful Archive Search Capability Gelbspan's 'Boiling Point' Turns Up Heat On Climate Skeptics, Media Coverage
Jun 2004 (170 kB)	Pew Center Survey of Reporters Finds Increasing Anxieties, Concerns A Science Grad Student's Perspective On Scientists' Roles Beyond the Laboratory Bitter Power Struggle Dominates Sierra Club Election Coverage EPA Administrator, Hollywood 'Celebs,' Activist Lawyer Kennedy on SEJ Program $5,000 'Defender of Earth Award' Offered by Activist California Group Environmental News Network � A Decade Old and Moving Forward
May 2004 (111 kB)	Defining the Media Field of Play Izaak Walton Seeks to Involve Outdoor Writers in Population Campaign Gallup: Americans Less Worried on Environment
Apr 2004 (419 kB)	'State of Media' Report Offers Valuable Insights for Working Press Times' Revkin Points to Challenges, Opportunities In Boosting Media Coverage of Science Issues Local Reporter Challenges Brockovich Veracity Pete Myers' 'Above the Fold' Off to Impressive Start for Reporters Headwaters News: Building Identity 'One Day, One Headline at a Time' Workshop Series Aims to Strengthen Science Communication Through Media
Mar 2004 (659 kB)	Sierra Club Election Raises Immigration, Population Issues To SEJ's Listserv: Hats Off! Keith Schneider's Environmental Journalism Evolution: From 'Friend to Foe' with Property Rights Activists New/Useful RSS Feeds for Environmental Journalists Environment Writer to Resume Limited Print and Mail Edition
Feb 2004 (243 kB)	Covering the Beat in Colorado ... Competing Denver Dailies Set Pace RI Workshop Ideas to be Pursued at Scripps Science Journalism Meeting Syndicated Columnist Ed Flattau Recaps 40-Year 'Intellectual Journey' Changing Times and Faces at High Country News
Dec/Jan 2003-2004 (404 kB)	Outlook for 2004 Journalists, Scientists at URI Workshop Lay Groundwork for Improving Communications Population and Deforestation(Backgrounder) Covering Environment in Houston and Austin Media, Environment and History A Conservative is a Conservative ... But a Liberal is a 'Progressive'? 'Forward Looking'?
Nov 2003 (132 kB)	American West's Daily Coverage: Vast Majority Fail to Make the Grade Sea Change for the E-Beat ... or the Doldrums? California Environment Report RSS News Feeds: The Next Cool Thing? Easterbrook, No Stranger to Controversy, Ignites One with L.A. Times Column
Oct 2003 (712 kB)	New Orleans Offers Ideal Settings For 13th Annual SEJ Conference Faultline: Covering California on the Web Bush EPA's New Source Ruling: The Story is Certain to Continue Updated Reporter's Climate Guide Now Available Newspaper Dailies Squabble about Pollution Coverage, Ethics, Disclosure Journalists, Scientists to Explore Communications Between Science and Media
Sep 2003 (205 kB)	SEJ 13th Annual Conference Tidepool: News for a Salmon Nation Skirting the Population Issue: Why Journalists Need to Tackle Growth Water and Population II
Jul/Aug 2003 (215 kB)	Metcalf Institute Awarded NSF Grant for National Workshops Western Conservation PR Effort to Work Under Name Resource Media ENS Launches Subscriber Wire Service News Backgrounder on West Nile Virus
Jun 2003 (658 kB)	New EW Series to Explore Environmental Journalism Puns, Humor, An Edge Characterize Grist Coverage Networks Gave Environment 4 Percent of 15,000 Prime News Hole Minutes in 2002 SEJ Weighs Five-Year Goal: $3 Million Endowment Campaign Florida: Rx for Thriving E Beat?
May 2003 (887 kB)	Sea Change for the Beat or Just the Doldrums? Environmental Journalism Education Veteran Reporter Bill Dawson Is Regular EW Contributor SEJ Explores Ways to Boost Support for Freelancers Immigration Reform Group Shines Light on Activists' Silence Science Training for TV Weathercasters Leaves them "Human" on Climate Change
Apr 2003 (903 kB)	Newshole Counterattack: Wartime Strategies for Environmental Reporters SEJ Plans Well Under Way for September 10-14 New Orleans Conference Backgrounder on Wetlands Biodiversity may be threatened by trend towards smaller households Muckraking! The Up Side of Journalism
Mar 2003 (68 kB)	Science Journals Go to War-Time Self-Censorship Knight-Ridder, Times, National Journal Measure Bush Policies at Mid-point of Term Media Coverage of UN Population Report Runs Gamut Responsible Journalism in a War-time Environment
Feb 2003 (82 kB)	Coverage of WTC Pollution Aftermath Debated Top National Environmental Coverage Often Originates 'Outside the Beltway' Nieman Reports Focuses on Environmental Coverage
Dec/Jan 2002-2003 (89 kB)	War, Terrorism Likely to Back-Page 'E' Coverage Strings Attached (Adventures in Grant-funded Journalism) Industry Test-Fires New Secrecy Weapon Geography and Ideology Behind Environmentalists' Senate Apprehensions? Covering the Coasts and Population Pressures
Nov 2002 (74 kB)	Nearly 850 Participate in SEJ Annual Conference White House Readies New Info Blackout: 'Sensitive But Unclassified' Data FERC Bids for Secrecy on Power Plant Licensing, Regulation Coastal Issues Highlighted at SEJ Conference Newslab's 'Reporter's Checklist for Accuracy' SEJ Environmental Journalism Awards Announced at Baltimore Conference
Oct 2002 (248 kB)	Scope of Looming New Homeland Security FOIA Exemption Undecided First Amendment Survey Results: America's Press Is 'Too Free' Recycling: Yesterday's Fad... Tomorrow's Bygone Era Backgrounder: 'Toxic Molds'
Sep 2002 (296 kB)	WSJ Op-Eds, Time, Times and The Nation Devote Major Pre-Johannesburg Coverage Backgrounder on Food and Population -- the Environmental Nexus The Coming 'Indicators' Binge
Jul/Aug 2002 (299 kB)	Homeland Security Bill May Create New FOIA Exemption Backgrounder on Population and Climate Perilous Times: SEJ Forms 1st Amendment Panel
Jun 2002 (89 kB)	New Law Could Cloud Access to EPA Information Book Review: Sacred Cows ... Good Hamburgers. Problem Solving for E Journalists? (Turning Numbers Into Knowledge, by Jonathan G. Koomey, PhD) Backgrounder on Covering Harmful Algal Blooms Backgrounder on Covering Drought (updates June 2000 backgrounder)

Updated: February 1, 2007

Environment Writer
Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting
University of Rhode Island
Graduate School of Oceanography
Office of Marine Programs
Narragansett, RI 02882

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