Mentoring Match: Veteran Freelancer Guides Radio Rookie
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Swimming with a New Tide
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Committing to Collaboration: How Two Freelancers Pulled Off a Cross-Pacific Partnership
Winnifred Bird and Jane Braxton Little, a former SEJ mentor program pair, describe (with humor!) the process of how they turned their shared interest in the Fukushima disaster's affect on forest ecosystems and rural communities into a successful writing collaboration.
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"Who Needs Lobbyists? See What Big Business Spends To Win American Minds"
"Forget lobbying. When Washington, D.C.’s biggest trade associations want to wield influence, they often put far more of their money into advertising and public relations, according to a new Center for Public Integrity investigation."
Source: Ctr for Public Integrity, 01/16/2015
"Utilities-Backed Dark Money Group Sparking Energy Debate in Michigan"
"Though partisan gridlock is the political buzzword of the day, it's another kind of grid that's making political sparks fly in Michigan. There, two powerful utility companies — Consumers Energy and DTE Energy — control the lion's share of the electric grid and appear to be behind a new advocacy effort that coincides with the start of a new legislative session."
Source: Sunlight Foundation, 01/16/2015
Waiting for Ansel Adams: Will 114th Congress Legalize Park Photography?
You may have read in recent WatchDogs about controversial federal laws and rules that could restrict photojournalism in federal parks, forests, and rangelands. Now comes the "Ansel Adams bill" that would make it legal to do an activity that is Constitutionally protected. Only someone has to introduce the bill. Photo: Ansel Adams, by J. Malcolm Greany.
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Arrest of Four Near Hog Farm Tests Utah's "Ag Gag" Law
One way to deal with bad press is to make it illegal. Exposés of inhumane conditions at feedlots and slaughterhouses are being made illegal by state legislatures that pass "ag gag" laws. Now a case in Utah is challenging whether industrial agriculture's claims of secrecy trump the eating public's right to know. Image: Sows in 7'x2' Smithfield Foods gestation crates. By Humane Society of the US [CC], 2010.
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SEJ by the Numbers: History and Accomplishments 1990-2015
Numerical facts about the Society of Environmental Journalists from 1990-2015 inclusive.
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"Man Convicted of 'Eco-Terrorism' Freed Amid Claims FBI Hid Evidence"
"Eric McDavid sentenced to nearly 20 years in 2007 for conspiring to bomb one or more targets including electric power stations and cellphone towers"
Source: Guardian, 01/12/2015
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