Why is The London Weekly claiming a circulation in "the central belt" when the central belt is in Scotland? The answer appears to be found in Th...

I have been a fan of The Uptake since the beginning. In this video Jason Barnett discusses what The Uptake is, how they organize contributors, bias in the me...

The following was originally published on my Posterous blog ";Digidave's Quickies"; - where I often collect my brain musings. I thought it was too good to ju...

Hello there.Well, I thought I'd send out an update on the latest happenings on Help Me Investigate. So here it is:We're looking a...

Since Spot.Us first launched in late 2008 as a simple wiki, I've wanted this to be a learning and growing endeavor both for myself and for  journalism as...

The investigation into The London Weekly was mentioned on this week's Guardian ">...

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And here's the link where you can do it...http:/ / www.power2010.org.uk/ votes/ entry/ expand-the-scope-of-the-freedom-of-information-act ...

This is by no means a ";discovery"; - just a quick observation on the role that small businesses play in the mental creation of a community. When people ask ...

In a recent Tweet LA Times media columnist James Rainey commented. ";Hector Tobar colmn on low property taxes for wealthy country clubs from story 1st funded...

There is a logistical and ideological story. I have tried to capture both. Life can be a war and everyone picks their battles. Which is to say - everyone has...

My last post was ";Fear Not, For Information - It Always Finds a Way"; published in the Sacramento Bee. To play a little devil's advocate with myself. I prop...

Somebody recently asked me for my resume and I realized how horribly outdated it is. Perhaps because I look at my blog as a ";living resume."; If that's the ...

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This post has already made its round on Twitter - but I wanted to archive it on my blog as well. The Sacramento Bee is asking various thinkers and writers to...

After talking to beat reporters about how they use RSS to research and report their beats, it seemed appropriate to go a step further and look at some of the...

I had a vision for a post that would be an Ode To Old School. The introduction is below - but alas, travel and work combined to = no time for blogging. I'm s...

Three more local newspapers have been covered as part of the investigation into local council coverage. The Witney Gazette ...

This post sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. RSS is an incredibly useful way for journalists to keep track of beats by watching what is bei...

Ed Walker has been looking at council coverage  as part of the investigation into '...

Journopianalysis of The Oxford Times to the investigati">...

The investigation into How much local council coverage is there in your local newspaper? now has a handy spreadsheet, thanks to ...

What would you say were the most famous examples of inv That's the question I asked. Here are the ">...

This post sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. At most news organizations, sports and entertainment blogs rule the roost, but at The Sacramen...

The investigation into How much 'covert surveillance' of individuals has been conducted by Midlands councils? has results from ...

This post sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. GothamSchools, like most news Web sites, serves multiple audiences: one part loyal readers and...

The investigation into 'How much local council coverage is there in your local newspaper?' has had its first results. OrangeBlossomer has ...

From George Monbiot in The Guardian:"Davies, for example, asked a ">...

The investigation into How much Birmingham City Council spends each year on compensating drivers of cars damaged by pot">...

A page has been created for Help Me Investigate on Facebook - you can find it at http:/ / www.facebook.com/ pages/ Help-Me-Investigate/ 16620168...

Blogs as link ghettos? We're enjoying the convo going on between @palafo, @felixsalmon http:/ / j.mp/ c872OK » FT digital strategist hints at paywall for vi...

Sen. Blanche Lincoln has put herself front and center in opposing efforts by her party's leadership to pass or implement comprehensive caps on carbon emissio...

Google's economist-in-chief, Hal Varian, was the keynote speaker this morning at the Federal Trade Commission's second round of hearings on the future of jou...

1) Nancy Scola presents a very important view of lobbyist influence in Congress. She writes about lawmakers, ";They're not crooks, they're idiots! So many me...

Even on the web, sometimes actions really do speak louder than words. The technology site Ars Technica has a tech-savvy group of readers, of which about 40 p...

When I look up a word on Merriam-Webster OnLine, I'm usually in a hurry. But I've stumbled across something that could get me to stick around longer.A few mo...

Now that it's passed the billion-pageviews-a-month benchmark, Tumblr sets its sights on revenue generation http:/ / j.mp/ ct94iv » Media exec on the proble...

Below is a guest post from George Fifield, director and founder of Boston Cyberarts Inc., an organization that is a fiscal sponsor of Virtual Street Corners....

Frédéric Filloux has an interesting piece in this week's Monday Note (which, if you're not already reading, you should be). It's on Microsoft's work on Sea...

1) A trade group organized to lobby for the interests of foreign-owned subsidiaries hired a former counsel to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to lobb...

Wondering why the House Ethics Committee exonerated every single lawmaker touched by the PMA Group campaign contributions-for-earmarks scandal? They didn't i...

The iPad is being heralded as both a savior and enslaver for newspapers. It may finally provide the kind of futuristic, multimedia newspaper experience so of...

Should a court case on whether Washington state must disclose the identities of people calling for a referendum affect the kinds of disclosure required under...

I attended an Ashoka conference in New Delhi yesterday on rural innovation and farming. There were so many new things I realized about agriculture's deep roo...

It's a SuperTweet, SuperTweet...: new API will allow third-party apps to beef up tweets with contextual data http:/ / bit.ly/ bUVfkm » Microsoft's (rumored)...

By Robert Hernandez: For me, it began with a snarky tweet: #journchat Bad name, good PR.Apparently that tweet touched a nerve and prompted Web journalists to...

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. �"Josh] The online news l...

[Laura Bennett is currently on a Fulbright grant in Madrid to research citizen journalism and the democratization of the mainstream Spanish media. She filed ...

Poor Clifford Stoll. His 1995 Newsweek essay The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn't, and will never be, nirvana resurfaced last month and, yes, ...

Sony takes on Apple, preps a new device that will blend netbook, ebook reader features and run Play Station games http:/ / j.mp/ dqgtHL » An Internet free ...

A Flickr image of a dual-screen setup at a Superbowl party this year shows the game on the big screen and a second screen for the Twitter conversation. The h...

A core goal of nonprofit news organizations is to create impact. Foundations and donors expect evidence of journalism's impact in a way that the local depart...

The Washington Post caused a bit of a stir yesterday when it announced a $1.99-a-year iPhone app. The choice was interesting both because it offered time-li...

When I like a newspaper story, I really like it. And when I like it, I want other people to like it as much as I do. So I'll enshrine it in my personal story...

[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor �" author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news �" writes about the economics of the n...

For the second time ever, the House of Representatives released an online update to its ";House Expenditure Reports";  �" a compendium of how the lower cha...

Networks consider big change for Web advertising: Full ad load could be on the way http:/ / j.mp/ baRJNq » Doctoral student's study suggests free ebooks co...

As Democrats move forward to pass health care reform attention has focused on a key piece of Senate rules known as budget reconciliation. This post takes Sen...

Seven key Democrats seen as potential vote-flippers on the health care reform bill are heavily reliant on campaign funds from party leadership and online pro...

The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) released a important new report this week, Understanding the Participatory News Consumer...

Ahh March.You're my favorite month of the year. It's within your few brief weeks that I celebrate my birthday, watch as winter turns to spring, as Lent leads...

If you don't use Google Reader or Bloglines or some other feed reader, you can stop reading now. OK, still here? Months ago, after at least a couple years of...

Facebook users tend to prefer broadcast to newspaper media sites, according to Hitwise analyst Heather Hopkins. Check out her post containing plenty of metri...

Australian professor Julie Posetti has a fascinating post on how Twitter has shaped the thinking and workflow of political journos. From her post: ";Twitter...

";But though it may feel like putting the cart before the horse, there are many good reasons and ways to sell ad space on low-traffic websites. What you need...

";The internet is now the third most-popular news platform, behind local and national television news and ahead of national print newspapers, local print new...

";In this article are than a dozen potential future user interfaces that we'll be seeing over the next few years (and some further into the future)."; Read m...

Instead of pontificating on whether or not the iPad is a failure or how it will change computing forever, I thought that I would spend some time thinking abo...

Once in a while, I take a look through some of the links I've been saving, sharing, and publishing in the sidebar of my blog, Twitter, and a few other places...

Philly.com Sports is looking for an intern to start immediately. The candidate will be expected to work on production of the site, make important editorial ...

Hey Journalistopians, it's been a long while, but I wanted to post the handouts and examples I'll be sharing at this weekend's Online News Association Parach...

This is a must watch TED Talk from Bill Gates. He thinks our ultimate goal as species should be to emit zero carbon emissions. He believes the best way to ge...

A lot of technologists don't realize how broken the current computing experience is for so many people. Desktop computers (with desktop-metaphor OSes) are re...

Penton is bankrupt.The B2B publishing giant announced today that it is filing Chapter 11.And as near as I can tell, the entire industry responded with a grea...

Back in the excellent philosophy class I took in high school (Hi Mr. Lutness!), epistemology was simply explained as How You Know What You Know. And differen...

When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was called ";Big Silver Robot,"; it was hosted at ...

";Newsstand"; by triin on Flickr. Mario Garcia probably believes the lifespan (halflife?) of print newspapers will stretch out ever so slightly longer than I...

Don't expect the geeks in your office to get much work done tomorrow.Because Wednesday, Jan. 27, will be something akin to Christmas for geeks. For it is on ...

Hugh MacLeod is certainly one of my favorite cartoonists around. I've bought business cards with one of his drawings on the back before, and I'm happily subs...

As a young aspiring writer (of what, I didn't know), I wrote an awful lot of words in notebooks for the better part of the 1990s, and I mean ";an awful lot";...

Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I wrote something earlier this week about what I think of as Q&A 2.0, the recent string of modern, general purpose question & a...

Today I finally did what I should have done a long time ago: I donated to Wikipedia. I strongly believe that all human knowledge should be free. Wikipedia is...

(Editor's note: As many of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook already know, my mother passed away on Dec. 30. Since then I've been overwhelmed by the k...

Back in the early days of grad school, when questions about the future of online advertising came up, I was bullish about the future of location-based mobile...

A company launches a new phone, or is rumored to likely be planning to launch a fancy tablet computer, or a new browser, or upgrading its mobile data network...

All too often when I ask a colleague at another media company what their monetization strategy is (in general or regarding a specific product) the response I...

God how time flies.It was five years ago today that I launched this blog.Much has changed since then -- particularly my career.When I started this blog I was...

Where would the world be without chunky tomato sauce? Watch this TED Talk about not trying to create the perfect product and how we should instead try to cre...

";You no longer control the message. And that's OK."; If you want to succeed on social media (and the Web in general) you have to be willing to lose control....

It's prediction time. Everyone in media is publishing their lists of insights and wild guesses for the upcoming year.I'm no different ... except that I'm ru...

Google Public Policy Blog "There are huge cost savings associated with online news," notes Google chief economist Hal Varian (left). "Roughly 50...

NYTimes.com Media Decoder Jon Meacham is negotiating to become co-host of a Friday night public affair series called "Need to Know," which is replacing "Bill...

eMedia Vitals Sean Blanda signed up as a contributor to understand the system. "It's the world's largest pitch meeting, except you know that there are no bad...

> Business reporter Appelbaum leaves WP for NYT > Steiger trusts Gissler will get it right re Enquirer > Bankruptcy judge approves East Valley Tribune sale >...

Gawker | Romenesko Memos Bob Christie, who has been with Dow Jones since 2003, has been named Times senior vice president of corporate communica...

University of Alberta Gateway University of Alberta Gateway editor-in-chief Mike Kendrick writes: "While the Poster Slam [PDF, but worth waiting for the down...

Miami Herald Elinor Burkett, the producer who bizarrely interrupted an Oscars acceptance speech, worked as a Miami Herald features writer from 1...

guardian.co.uk | paidContent.org"Happy birthday, Mr M.," writes Peter Preston. "It's been a bumpy, exciting ride. Of course, you always have mixed motives; s...

Associated Press Nick Ascheim has been hired to guide The Associated Press' effort to sell consumer applications for the Apple iPad and other digital devices...

Poynter Online Mobile Media The Times will introduce a separate version of its Book Review for three e-reader platforms, beginning with the Sony e-reader in ...

Columbia Journalism Review "In essence, MSNBC has no news operation whatsoever," writes Terry McDermott. "It has about half the total staff that...

San Francisco Chronicle Malcolm Glover -- a police reporter for most of the 56 years he worked for the San Francisco Examiner and The Chronicle -- met Willia...

Suntimes.com | TheWrap.com "He is the longest-serving and best-known member of the paper's staff, and if they made such a drastic decision, we a...

Associated Press | Topeka Capital-Journal Claire O'Brien told other reporters that GateHouse refused to pay for her legal representation and scuttled her eff...

Chicago Tribune The Tribune will edit, format and produce whole pages for the Daily Press. "This is a model that, particularly in smaller markets, although I...

From: Gray, Tim M (RBI-US) Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 1:14 PMTo: Editorial Staff Subject: internal memo, for Variety editorial staff only Change is always...

Citymag.org Topping the finalists list with 10 or more nominations are Texas Monthly, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia magazines. Winners will be announ...

NYTimes.com Media Decoder Film reviewer Todd McCarthy and theater critic David Rooney were cut as a cost-saving measure, says Variety president Neil Stiles. ...

Barrons.com | WashingtonPost.com A recent Washington Post Co. filing discloses that the Department of Education has been conducting a "Program Re...

Broadcasting & Cable Instead, the FCC is trying to figure out what, if anything, the government needs to do to preserve some of their traditional public-serv...

> Beacon Journal union OKs contract with 2.11% pay cut > Baltimore blogger sues to get press pass from gov > WPer on getting Pentagon shooter's brother to ta...

Capitol Weekly "Jerry Brown frequently called reporters on the phone or confronted them in person to complain about their stories or try to shape...

From: James Warren Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:26 AM Subject: Announcement from Jim Warren To: [Chicago Reader staff] I'm leaving the Reader, taking on enha...

Media Matters Joe Strupp says evidence suggests that the newspaper did, including the Suffolk County county executive's own admission that he urged Newsday t...

Cincinnati Enquirer "In an attempt to track down content parasites, The Enquirer and Cincinnati.Com now employ technology that scours the media landscape for...

Ben Goldacre is experiencing understandable frustration with the BBC's policy on linking to science papers: Jane Ashley of the website's health team, says th...

Last week Karl Schneider, Reed Business Information's Editorial Director, spent an hour chatting with students in my Online Journalism class. Most of it is ...

Media organisations who only offer partial RSS feeds might be interested to look at a couple of posts from 2 websites with different experiences of monetisin...

On Thursday I'll be hosting Birmingham's first ';Data Coffee'. Guests include The Times' Jonny Richards, Talis' Zach Beauvais and a whole bunch of MA Online ...

Here are my notes for my talk to the TEDxNYed gathering this past weekend. I used the opportunity of a TED event to question the TED format, especially in re...

My first bit of advice to pissed-off Cablevision customers in New York �" who've just lost WABC right before the Oscars �" I do recommend that you switch t...

These are my notes. You can help me make my presentation great by reading them over and commenting or asking questions. We have a week.

The first study (PDF) of magazines and their various approaches to websites, undertaken by Columbia Journalism Review, found publishers are still trying to w...

Here's audio of an appearance on The Takeaway on public radio this morning about the American Cancer Society's new prostate (PSA) screening guidelines, telli...

Hull - GeneralClassifieds - Notices via kwout The Hull Daily Mail's article accusing a hyperlocal competitor of having a ';porn business' has b...

In the early days of newspaper comment features I was a big fan of open systems that allowed anyone to comment and to comment anonymously. I believed at the ...

That's the question posed by Rednelly, with this screengrab: Curious. Anyone at the BBC got any idea?

Warren Buffett �" owner of one newspaper and director of another �" complains in his letter to shareholders (PDF) about his quote being mangled and misused...

The New York Times has combined visualisation with audio to produce a fascinating piece of work on the differences between gold winning times and runners-up...

...are doomed to repeat it. Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group on the revisions to Clause 17 of the Digital Economy Bill: ";Individuals...

There's a fascinating study on newspaper bias by University of Chicago professors Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro which identifies the political bias of ...

No, this isn't a post about shoe-leather reporting. It's about numbers of reporters. Doing good journalism is difficult if a news organization doesn't have e...

The afternoon commute, on-board the #33 between Main and Fraser in Vancouver. iPhone photo; sharpened in Photoshop.

Barring two upsets �" Norway in curling and the U.S. in hockey �" it appears as though Canada will finish the 2010 Winter Olympics not only with the most g...

I am in Tampa waiting to fly back home to New Jersey and, thanks to the snowicane but rather than sitting in the usual information vacuum to which airlines s...

Friend Michael Rosenblum forwarded word that the Star-Ledger in New Jersey was just nominated for seven local Emmys for its video work. Bravo for my old frie...

Meredith, the magazine publisher, is taking on functions of ad agencies, as the Wall Street Journal describes in detail today. It's a smart move by Meredith ...

Demand Media just announced the formation of an advisory board; Staci Kramer has the details at PaidContent. I was invited to join but decided to decline. I'...

Italy is endangering the web. It convicted three Google executives for privacy violations for a video that was posted on YouTube Google Video that Google too...

"Look: Not everyone is going to be thrilled that NYU is doing this with the New York Times. We'll have to take those problems on, not as classroom abstractio...

Here's another in an occasional series of posts to that try to examine, explain, and illustrate the new structure of media. This one looks at how we discove...

Rhetorica has always had an open-comments policy. No matter what happens in the blogging world, I will always try to ensure that anyone who wishes to comment...

"The quest for innocence means the desire to be manifestly agenda-less and thus 'prove' in the way you describe things that journalism is not an ideological ...

� � � � � All photos shot with Canon G10; converted to grayscale in Aperture.

This one's for my students. You get better by doing, which means always practicing. It's not about the assignments and the grades; it's about going out and p...

Mark Binker writes about the state Democrats' new web ad that takes a swat at Republican Sen. Richard Burr.read more

First off, we're not trying to kick the Heels while they're down. Consider it praise for our neighbors to the west.read more

It seems as if the woman at the center of the scandal eating away at the administration of New York Gov. David Paterson has Greensboro ties. (Sherry-una Bo...

It's been five weeks since the 50th anniversary celebration of the Greensboro sit-ins. If you ever doubted that the actions of those four A&T students affect...

John Battelle and my many friends who can’t wait to disparage the iPad as “passive,� “old-school� or proprietary need to take deep breath and calm ...

I'm not sure about this, but I think that in their meeting tonight the county commissioners may have spent more time talking about the ethics of our reporter...

From the announcement of this year's Sunshine Day from the North Carolina Open Government Coalition:read more

Some people have said that local newspapers botched the John Edwards story. We let it slip through our fingers into the hands of the National Enquirer.read m...

Photographer Jerry Wolford has been recognized often for his shots. That recognition continued today, this time by the N.C. Press Photographers Association. ...

Amy Gahran writes about Google's Fiber network with some key discussion points for Greensboro.read more

Interesting business and discussion going on with Joe Killian and the Rhino.read more

My brother is a pretty cool guy. He's made a living as an artist, a writer and an editor.read more

I had the pleasure of talking to Andy Bechtel’s Advanced Editing class at UNC yesterday. The topic: what makes a front page story?read more

At what point is it OK for elected officials to decline to comment on an issue of public interest?read more

As my wife reads her book club books, loving some and hating others, I've often suggested -- suggestions that have been roundly ignored -- that she start a v...

Hey, did you hear about Tiger Woods?Yeah, I figured you had.We had a rollicking discussion yesterday in our news meeting over how to play the story about Tig...

I'm pleased to see the New York Times give a Weekend Arts front page review to "Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone."read more

I hope Rep. Howard Coble is well. His aides say he's doing fine.I just wish that the hospital would say so.Coble requested that the hospital not release cond...

In Delaware, school board members blog. Imagine that.From Christina to Milford, district board members are blogging to reach out to constituents on issues ra...

This could be the quickest visit home ever.UNC system president Erskine Bowles resigns his post Friday morning.read more

Once again, the Greensboro television market led the country in its viewership of the Daytona 500, part of the 29.8 million people who watched at least some ...

Today is the closest thing we have to a two-year birthday for Guilford County's Most Wanted, our weekly spotlight on two criminal suspects on the loose. Sinc...

In two weeks, we're going to follow the path of many other newspapers big and small and publish advertisements on our Sunday front page.read more

As Chris O’Brien asks at the PBS IdeaLab, “Why will people spend $1 to send you a virtual beer on Facebook, but not to read a news story online?� Good ...

There's this odd statement in Jordan Green's profile of reporters Amanda Lehmert and Joe Killian. Some reporters gravitate towards partners who are disintere...

In connection with the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins, we published a good amount of material on the sit-ins and the opening of the International...

Former reporter, editor and editorial writer John Cochran returned to daily newspapers in a big way yesterday when an AP photographer caught him shoveling sn...

Both in anticipation of and reaction to the Apple iPad, people playing the Future of News Game tended toward superlatives. It would save traditional models, ...

I'm planning to keep an eye on developments that suggest a growing concentration of media power in ever smaller circles�"at the moment, mainly Google. I'll...

Some time last week, the usual suspects were riffing on Twitter about a post called “Where does the paywall go?� that postulates most website activity co...

The Turkish courts banned YouTube in May 2008, and now a new protest campaign launched by the editorial team of the Milliyet newspaper is The ...

They know where you sleep, and now they know where you get coffee. That was the message driven home by the recently created website PleaseRobMe...

This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration,GoDaddy to l">...

The biggest night in movies is two days away, and everyone has an opinion as to who will win an Oscar. While there isn't a proven formula ...

Using IBM's ManyEyes, I did a word tag visualisation of the BBC Strategy Review (PDF), to reveal the most commonly used pair of words. The most common by far...

Image via Wikipedia The BBC has sought to address the discussion over whether it is still committed to digital. In a direct response to the column by Forr...

This episode of 5Across is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registratGoDaddy ">...

I recently spent a week in Port au Prince, Haiti, helping in a tent hospital set up at the airport. ...

The BBC strategic review (PDF) of its services has been widely covered in the media, with much of the focus on the scrapping of 6 Music and cuts to BBC Onlin...

Australia is gearing up for a national election in 2010 and a core group of influential political journalists in the elite Canberra Press Galler...

Paul Steiger gave an insight into the first two years of ProPublica at a talk in Toronto on Monday. The CEO of the investigative journalism non-profit said t...

In 2001, the Wild Writing Women, a San Francisco Bay Area travel writing group of which I was a member, decided to self-publish a book of ...

This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration,GoDaddy to l">...

At the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics and the ...

The importance of social media in politics was made clear by Barack Obama's 2008 presidential run. But there is a new frontier of Web 2.0 ...

This is a good example of video for the web from the BBC, highlighting the independent and social media coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. It...

In the aftermath of Apple's January announcement of the iPad, people dished on the iPad name and pundits debated whether a tablet that didn't ha...

The outgoing director of the BBC's global news division, Richard Sambrook, looked back at a career in journalism spanning 30 years in a conversation at the...

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In a telephone call on Monday evening, a reporter for The Globe and Mail asked me if I was surprised that Sunday's Canada-U.S. hockey game had become most-w...

At the Winter Olympics, members of the press affiliated with official, IOC-designated ...

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Harnessing the journalistic power of social media and networks - The Future of News A thoughtful post on best journalism practices in social media. (tags: jo...

Image via Wikipedia With the 2010 Winter Olympics starting in Vancouver, one of the more interesting aspects will be the role of social media. Alexandra S...

Image by anikarenina via Flickr The CAJ Innovate News conference wrapped up with a different perspective from Bill Buxton, principal researcher for Micros...

Once again Patrick Moore, a former Greenpeace activist, has been promoting nuclear power as a solution to global warming without disclosing that he is a cons...

At first look, one might not think that the health insurance industry has much in common with the tobacco industry. After all, one sells a product that kill...

The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), an Australian corporate funded think tank think, has decided to dump its Senior Fellow, Jennifer Marohasy. Marohasy, a...

As the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill nears a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, environmental groups are "teetering at the edge of existential crisis," ...

The new Virginia-based group "Citizens for a Safe Alexandria" describes itself as a grassroots group, but its founder works for a public relations firm that ...

American Today, the weekly newspaper for American University, ran this feature on last week's AU Forum and public radio broadcast of "The Climate Change ...

The CSM cancels green blog in favor of a broader approach

At NewYorkTimes.com, Alex Kaplun of Greenwire reports on emails exchanged among several prominent climate scientists regarding possible plans to fight back a...

Dan Vergano of USA Today has an important column out this weekend. Vergano, I believe, is the first major journalist to call into question the now dominant ...

Chris Palmer, director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking at American University, argues in an op-ed at CNN.com that the tragic accident at SeaWo...

Readers in Washington, DC will find this event, open to the public, of strong interest: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), th...

At the blog "Global Change: Intersection of Nature and Culture," Phil Camil has an excellent overview and synthesis of research on some of the communication ...

That's the question raised in an American Observer article about this week's AU Forum held on the "Climate Change Generation? Youth, Media, and Politics in a...

A field guide to environmental journalism in the Ohio River Valley

Graham, Kerry, Lieberman, and Gore all share the same goal but are moving to differentiate themselves as a way to claim credit for climate action and to a...

Americans under the age of 35 have grown up during an era of ever more certain climate science, increasing news attention, alarming entertainment portray...

At last night's AU Forum on The Climate Change Generation, one of the students asked what can be done to break public indifference on the issue. In th...

More than 200 students turned out tonight for the AU Forum on climate change and youth and approximately 700,000 audience members in the DC area listened...

What does climate change mean to you? from Andrea Posner on Vimeo. Students in AU Professor David Johnson's class on interactive media have created a soci...

The School of Communication at American University in partnership with the School of Public Affairs has established a new 2 year MA degree program in Pol...

Less hand-wringing over state of science journalism

Last week I presented at a workshop hosted by AAAS on "Promoting Climate Literacy Through Informal Science." There were a number of outstanding presenta...

Last week I posted about the increasing problem of incivility at comment sections for blogs and news sites. As I noted at the end of the discussion thre...

Oransky launches blog examining controversial publishing standard

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA �" Growing tensions between scientists and major news outlets in Australia center around scientists' concerns over coverage of the poten...

Along with the U.S. ... China makes up the climate change ';G2′ It's a virtual truism that two countries matter above all others when it comes to avoidi...

Experts press for localizing climate coverage

As the Northeast digs and melts its way out from feet of snow, now seems like a fine time to look at the lamest most shopworn work done by editorial cartoo...

Traffic is way up at blog focused on local weather

Storm coverage muddles politics and science

Articles still fall short of ambitious work in the U.K.

Climate change associated with atmospheric warming and depletion of the earth's protective ozone layer are two separate but interrelated problems, intersecti...

Shiprock, sans the brown haze that often envelopes it. Shiprock rises like a massive cathedral 1,800 feet above Navaho country in New Mexico. The best pho...

After 40 years on the job, Joe Hebert reflects on covering energy and environment

Has climate coverage in the MSM lost its authority?