Yesterday I drove down to Santa Cruz for FreelanceCamp. I wrote a quick post about it at the Spot.Us blog. One thing I love about unconferences is the end wh...

Huffington Post goes local (and the press doesn’t like it) I remember when the HuffingtonPost launched in 2004. I was working at Wired and we looked at ...

Scott Rosenberg, a former editor at Salon Magazine who's writing a book on blogging, takes aim at a fact of life for people creating new media online: They h...

Chuck Olsen from the UpTake does an interview with my buddy Noel Hidalgo about his recent experience being kicked out of China for creating independent media...

What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? I love this - it's what I mean when I often refer to linking as an "editorial service." "Newsmastering is the ...

What Is Newsmastering And What Are Newsradars? I love this - it's what I mean when I often refer to linking as an "editorial service." "Newsmastering is the ...

Dan Pacheco and Chris O'Brien wrote recently for IdeaLab about ways newspapers (or other media) can innovate successfully. One approach that wasn't mentioned...

In the roughly 14 years that I've been in the online industry, I've learned that it's really easy to focus so much on what you're going to build that you can...

Kent Fischer of The Dallas Morning News received an e-mail on Monday from a teacher about new district grading policies for Dallas. At first, Fischer didn't ...

Wall Street cheers as Gannett cuts 1,000 positions This is the message sent: If you cut jobs, big time, we will reward you. Newspapers that are run like busi...

Timing has been good to Jon Ortiz. The Sacramento Bee had originally planned to launch his blog about California state workers later, but realized that it wo...

Whenever I tell someone that I'm majoring in Information Systems the response tends to be something along the lines of "Ahh that's nice... What's Informati...

I was at a party the other day when I had an interesting experience with my iPhone. I tend to be a bit of a wallflower (read: antisocial) so usually when I'm...

ReelChanges.org, a nonprofit venture that promises to herald an era of viewer-funded documentaries, launched May 1. Since that time, the site has gained c...

I continue to work nonstop on Spot.Us. Soon I will have design wireframes to share (will probably do so at the Spot.Us blog). I am incredibly touched by how ...

A paper'€™s sad decline in debt€™s grip An amazing break down of Media News Group and the state of affairs in the Bay Area newspaper industry. If you are...

The practice of hoisting comments is beginning to catch on with more beat bloggers. Education Week's Eduwonkette blog has launched its own comment of the wee...

Content isn't everything. Timing is important too. Jon Ortiz and The Sacramento Bee recently launched a new beat blog ahead of schedule, The State Worker, be...

When we started the Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker project, we believed what local people involved in this effort told us -- that they'd be happy to contribute t...

First: Lock up your curmedgeons the 20-something journalists are starting to get organized. Not crazy about the U.I., but I LOVE the idea that young journali...

A typical practice for most editorial staffs is to gather up all the reporters about once a week to pitch/ assign future stories. It';s an essential part of t...

A Sunday brainstorming session. How could the interent be used to change the way we pay taxes? I hope the video explains what I picture in my head. Apologies...

"What's the business model?" It's a question I hear again and again at meetings and events. The existing model for newspapers is quickly unraveling, so we ...

This video was one of the amazing public mapping projects featured at this year's Center for Social Media's Beyond Broadcast 2008. Public Radio Internationa...

If you just want the progress report on Spot.Us - scroll to the bottom. If you want to peer into my mind, read on.If I want to explain my job as founder of S...

Matt Neznanski started a new beat blog -- his second -- a few months ago, but hasn't found the success he was looking for. His latest beat blog, Green City, ...

Gotham Gazette learned this week that two of our recent projects, Who's Running for What and The Garbage Game were listed among the notable Knight-Batten ent...

We had a brainstorming session and an idea of a board game came up. Then a card game followed and it seemed interesting enough to be explored in detail becau...

It';s been a LONG time since Assignment Zero. It';s often referred to as a successful failure. I still disagree for various reasons. We had all kinds of obst...

An old notepad doodle, found whilst cleaning out my desk last week.

More here.

Perhaps some of you have been following the controversy surrounding the film "Tropic Thunder." And it's not as if the cast and film crew were unaware that th...

Borrow cash. Buy a publishing company. Choke on debt. Borrow more. Buy another publisher. Choke on debt. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.tags: journalism, b2b, ...

One of my many journalism obsessions is watching the internal communications processes at publishing companies.I follow this stuff pretty closely. I read the...

On vacation last week I went looking for a book and never found it. As I rummaged through the various eddies where books tend to collect in this house, I sta...

Source Media, publisher of a number of Wall Street-focused brands such as The Bond Buyer and Securities Industry News, is reorganizing into a team-based syst...

My last day working at the paper (I'm taking a buyout) after more than 14 years on the job will be Aug. 22. As things work out, that means there are just fou...

Media consultant Mark Potts, who recently did a stint at Philly.com, has compiled information about newspaper layoffs into a database and published a PDF wit...

This is the second post in a short series I'm going to write about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual divisive blathering about ...

Last night, I took an unceremonious break from my self-imposed Romenesko diet. I had seen a stream of tweets and blog posts and shared links about something ...

2007 MFL Draft in review from Dan Conover on Vimeo. This week's XARK TV episode isn't for everyone, but if you're a fantasy football player and/ or a member o...

This is the first in a short series I';m going to write about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual harangues at editors and rants ...

I tried to watch Joss Whedon's buzz-generator Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on its premiere day, but traffic was so heavy I gave up. Here's the complete thr...

We're in a strange position in B2B journalism in 2008.As the Web has grown, altering forever the business and art of publishing, B2B has sometimes taken the ...

The media blogosphere is a slightly less interesting place today.William Patry is shutting down his blog on copyright law.And given that no less an instituti...

The next two weeks (I'm on vacation) of blank cartoons (already posted at Xarktoons) for the caption contest, with my super-secret personal captions affixed....

I've been on the road for weeks ... and am just now settling back into my routine.I'm in my apartment. The baby is asleep. And in the past 24 hours I've mana...

A friend sent me this link to a minor, if interesting, piece: "Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location...

Editor & Publisher has published its 2008 ';10 That Do it Right,'; a list of newspapers that have shown innovation in specific areas, such as growing classif...

Fortune magazine reports that Google vice president Marissa Mayer publicly stated that Google News --;an aggregator that contains no advertising--; draws in ...

I believe that one of the hardest aspects of any superhero mythology to bring to appreciative audiences is the origin story, be that of the hero him- or hers...

A few months back (and I can't recall where), Dan commented on a small portion of an interview he conducted with Laurie Anderson when she was performing in C...

FRIDAY 5: Fan's Guide to Spotting Baseball Pitches from Dan Conover on Vimeo. You can get the whole thing over at my Friday5 blog, but here's the video I cut...

As much fun as it is for me to make clever lists and shout from the hilltops about what I think your news organization should be doing, how they should be do...

Google today announced the launch of Knol, a Wikipedia-esque site that hosts articles from contributors. Google hopes the articles become among the most auth...

I ran across this image on Smashing Magazine tonight. I think it eloquently describes one of the biggest challenges specific to news site design: What do yo...

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by a panel entitled: Ethics and the Business of Journalism: A Discussion of Urgent Importance at the Association for Educati...

This week';s Guardian column asks whether editors are a luxury we can afford. (There';s a separate version online here where comments can and I suspect will ...

As soon as Twitter dumped SMS alerts for most of the world, a bunch of us started trying to find workaround solutions that would allow us to still get text m...

PolitiFact bills itself as: a project of the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly to help you find the truth in the presidential campaign. Every ...

Clark Hoyt examines the troubling practice of identifying "persons of interest"-- people such as Steven J. Hatfill, Richard Jewell, Gary Condit, and the pare...

I';m set to be on Howie Kurtz'; Reliable Sources at 10a EDT today to talk about the waste and hubris of sending 15,000 journalists to the political conventio...

As I shuffle through archived clips and bookmarks, I'm going to post a bunch of quotes here while figuring out which to use in my fall classes... Somehow a b...

When I worked at the Allentown Morning Call more than 20 years ago,  there was a twisted, melted photographer';s camera from the 1940s or 1950s tucked away...

";This is the dramatic moment a TV reporter was shot by a sniper as she reported live from war-torn Georgia,"; according to the Daily Mail, MSNBC';s Clicked...

I was talking with a media exec who started a blog ad network — bless him — but who I thought was taking too high a share of the revenue: at least half....

Here';s one of those ';images of our times';. Following Scoble & Barefoot';s Social Media Starfish (I know), Brian Solis has produced this much tidier Conve...

How come the Vancouver Sun';s Olympic pages look so much better than the rest of the newspaper';s website? (Although it is a little odd that the main feature...

YouTube footage of a Georgian journalist who comes under fire from a sniper, suffers a minor injury and appears to keep broadcasting. Via Gerik Pamele on Twi...

These have caught my attention so far today. The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn. An approachable and interesting Scientific American piece...

The headline is overstated: Troops Deployed Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama. It's true enough from a particular statistical point of view, but?the situation?(as usu...

Forbes.com reports that the number of journalists covering the conventions this fall will remain at the same level as 2004 and 2000: 15,000 of them. What a w...

UPDATE 9: Two workarounds suggested UPDATE 8: Avatar campaign now under way. Now available for  the following mobile operators: 3 (http:/ / www.tw3t.com/ f/ 25l...

During the past couple of months I have been knocking on PBS doors trying to convince folks with some power to see the potential of having individual video j...

What? It';s Wednesday already? US media';s crimes against Web 2.0. Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC provides a measured look at two recent media controversies â...

CNN announced it will soon deploy digital journalists to 10 cities in the United States. A digital journalist is the a 1-man band who can report for all plat...

A few fascinating tidbits from Jim Cramer';s interview with Google';s Eric Schmidt today: * Google accounts for 0.7 percent of GDP, according to Goldman Sach...

This American Life's great mortgage crisis explainer, The Giant Pool of Money, suggests that "information" and "explanation" ought to be reversed in our orde...

Being the sort of person who puts all their work online, I thought it might be useful to put the agenda for next week';s one-day training course up, along wi...

The Midlands News Association is the latest publisher to embrace the mobile web with mobile-friendly sites for the Express & Star and Shropshire Star. The si...

CNN have a fancy new tool which allows you to see the ";history, context and background to a developing story";. BackStory presents previous stories in a sl...

If money';s what you';re after, here are some avenues opening up: The Knight Community Information Challenge is offering $20 million to support US-based init...

I have three weeks to edit and revise my manuscript and get ready for the start of school and go on vacation with the family and do a consulting project and...

Two thing make teaching media ethics especially fun and interesting: 1. The media always provide fresh ethical problems (scandals)?to study. 2. These ethical...

Boston.com';s The Big Picture is featuring 29 photos from Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia and has done well in handling the images. Several of the photos s...

Only a few McClatchy papers used correspondent Tom Lasseter's first-hand report of contradictions about Russia's rationale for invading Georgia on the front ...

The News & Observer's executive editor John Drescher tells it like it is in his column this week: John Edwards called him last fall and flat-out lied about h...

A newspaper online is not an online newspaper. Here is Prof. Jay Rosen's take on "the ethic of the link." This is crucial to our emerging role as aggregators...

Seth Godin writes about the wisdom of bullying someone into a sale. He finds, of course, little wisdom in it. The flaw in thinking is this... the people you...

Want to know something about the Triad? Here's a start. Thanks to all the staff, but particularly editor Janet Brindle Reddick, designer Jennifer Burton an...

Whenever anyone scoffs at blogs, calling them a pit of gossip or the ranting of nutcases, I always point to examples their power and goodness. I have another...

Chancellor Stanley Battle of A&T gave one heck of an opening day speech today that should have inspired students and faculty, but the community as well. It i...

Good piece in the NYT today about television networks adapting to budgetary and technological imperatives with increasing use of "one-man band" style bureau...

Is it police abuse or is it a proper arrest? I'm talking about this video. The citizen video of an arrest at Smith Homes is out there for anyone to watch. ...

Because the part of the Greensboro blogging community I engage with most is politically minded, I pass this along from Politico as a way to make money doing ...

In the comments thread of this post, Ted asked: I was wondering if you thought an online only newspaper for Greensboro would work, both editorially and in te...

Last year when I wrote this column about my younger daughter, HPU's president, Nido Qubein, asked if he could send copies to every incoming freshmen. I susp...

Greensboro City Council member Dianne Bellamy-Small normally declines to speak with our reporters face to face or by phone. She will accept faxed questions a...

Given the tabloids' well-earned political reporting credibility, I guess the red-faced mainstream news media has some new stories to follow: And this one...

As an indirect footnote to the premature Philadelphia Inquirer hubbub, we don't see much evidence that newspaper readers move to the Web or Web users move to...

Johnny, we hardly knew ye! But why did he wait to man-up about it? It wasn't to bury the news value under the fireworks of the Olympics opening, was it? U...

Got an early jones for the Wyndham? Go here.

A blog featuring McClatchy and MCT staffers at the Olympics today even includes a list of websites and searches being blocked at the Olympic Media Center. Do...

Newspapers should have kickass web sites. Take your typical major metro — a content producing staff that out paces in training, experience and numbers any ...

Elon University has announced a one-year master's program in interactive media. Students in the full-time, one-year program will learn to create and deliver...

Bam, just like that I got the privilege of paying another $100 to the second person to complete the New Year's digital challenge. Last week, it was Melissa U...

I've been reading entries in the McClatchy President's Award contest, work done in the first six months of 2008: hospital fraud, exploitation of illegal immi...

As some of you know, this site was locked by Google for a day or so as a suspected spam blog.I'll plead guilty to a lot of things, but not that. And now it's...

Note: this post and comments were mysteriously removed when Etaoin Shrdlu was locked down as a suspect spamblog last week. I'm restoring it now.Without other...

We're working hard across McClatchy to discover and embrace new relationships with our audiences, moving from the old gatekeeper paradigm to a new model of c...

From Beet.tv: Online videos have a short shelf life, getting a quarter of their views within four days of being published, Brett Wilson, CEO of video distrib...

click to enlargeI read this in Harper's Magazine some time in the 1970s and typed this copy on my IBM Selectric. I kept it under the glass on my desktop for ...

Reporters who own their jobs with an entrepreneurial spirit and energy will also own each story they do. What does story ownership mean? You generate your o...

Nick Sergeant has completed his first Django project. It';s called Finisht.com.  It';s really for developers who want a quick and easy way to track finished...

Roughly 60% of Independents say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supported easing restrictions on off-shore drilling, according to a r...

My brother Drew and cousin Jeff fishing Lady Evelyn Lake in Northern Ontario. A magical place with glassy smooth waters full of Walleye, Northern Pike, and...

The Metcalfe Institute at the University of Rhode Island has announced its 2008 Grantham Prize winners for environmental reporting. The series "Choking on Gr...

CJR chats with new Knight, MIT director Phil Hilts

The media's role in covering the (wide) spectrum of skepticism about global warming

The reality of high gas prices and the successful advertising blitz of the McCain team has helped redefine the nature and relevance of the economy in voters'...

"Sasquatch's Remains" In A Cooler in Georgia

NYT grasps, and misses, the ethical dimensions of science

SPJ award goes to a courageous news director

Shanto Iyengar is a professor of communication at Stanford University and director of Stanford's Political Communication Lab. He's one of the senior scholars...

I watched Edwards' interview Friday night and it was pretty clear that he had help from crisis communication experts, delivering a narrative about a man wh...

Energy independence is easy!

In case you were wondering, Gore's much anticipated follow up book--where he is scheduled to detail his proposed policy actions--is due out about five months...

The Barna Group is known for its precision in tracking the preferences of religious groups, especially Evangelicals. The organization today released its la...

Along with scientific journals, Americans rate public broadcasting as one of the most credible sources for information about biotechnology. Yesterday I not...

In today's fragmented media environment, how do we actually reach "mass" audiences with science-related content? Or similarly, if you are a company or orga...

Straight talk express? McCain with Jerry Falwell. Last week, I noted McCain's not-so-subtle attempt in a new Web advertisement to draw comparisons between ...

Edwards' follies are likely to hurt Democratic chances in November and further derail media attention from issues that really matter. Tonight on ABC Nightli...

Mark McKinnon was the genius behind Bush's 2004 media strategy. The Bush campaign successfully portrayed Bush as "a strong leader in a time of change" whil...

The dominant image of atheism: Blogger PZ Myers wearing a scarlet letter "A" for atheism T-shirt. Atheists have a major image problem. There's a reason tha...

This blog has a ton of readers from the Madison, Wisconsin area. It's not surprising given that the university town is a major international hub for interest...

When coverage of science goes from ignorant to dangerous

Doubts arising about the feasibility of carbon dioxide emission trading offset markets ... and how "additionality" is a concept critical to reporters' unde...

A new report being circulated for public comment may help reporters localize the climate change impacts story ... just when they may most need to be focusi...

The university's famous Byrd Polar Research Center, with its vast collection of preserved ice cores, is to be one focus of an October 12-14 workshop for 20...

The United Kingdom's broadcasting watchdog says a controversial 2007 "Swindle" broadcast did not mislead Brits on global warming, but its sanction of the p...

EPA's Office of Inspector General hammers another nail in the hopes of some that voluntary programs are leading to sizeable greenhouse gas emission reducti...

Beats prone to being foundations for climate-related news are reported losing in the ongoing newsroom struggle for space. One reported key: the local angle.

The blogosphere strikes ... and the American Physics Society responds by reaffirming its existing position on "incontrovertible evidence" that global warmi...

Word cloud of Reportr.net created with the online tool Wordle. Inspired by 10,000 Words post on ";What is the multimedia blogosphere talking about?";

In an article for PBS Mediashift, I looked at the challenges facing journalism schools in teaching technical skills without losing sight of the journalism. ...

Image via Wikipedia The latest data from Nielsen Online on monthly US visitors to the top news and information sites makes for depressing reading for the BB...

Recently, MediaShift started running reports from ";embeds"; at various media outlets and educational institutions. This report comes from Alfred Hermida, ...

Recently, MediaShift started running reports from ";embeds"; at various media outlets and educational institutions. This report comes from Roland Legrand, ...

The technology and journalism fields have long been dominated by men, especially in the upper management of big companies. But the J-Lab and McCormick Foun...

This is my first time using Seesmic to ask a Your Take question on MediaShift. You can answer either via Seesmic videos or via text in the comments below. ...

Olympic TAMi NBC';s multi-platform audience on Monday: 103 million Cyber-attack on Georgia media News site moves to Blogspot after attack TV losing out Mob...

This is the final part of my three-part email roundtable discussion looking at the new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use of Online Video created at the be...

On Saturday, I was part of a stimulating panel at the AEJMC annual conference in Chicago discussing the digital dilemmas raised by social media.  My contrib...

Open Salon is a user-generated site with some differences, the notable one being a tip jar that, one hopes, will lead to people being rewarded for their work...

Georgia Logothetis is better known as Georgia10, contributing editor at liberal blog the Daily Kos.  During a panel discussion at the AEJMC annual conferenc...

During a wide-ranging discussion on the impact of the internet on the US presidential elections at the AEJMC annual conference, one of the panellists raised ...

Kate Marymont, vice president of Information Center Content at Gannett, talks about her vision of reader-driven investigative journalism: (Shot on a Nokia ...

BEIJING — Journalists scrambling to make Games-time deadlines might not make it to Badaling or Juyongguan during their trip overseas, but they';re sure t...

Image via Wikipedia Much of the discussion at the AEJMC annual conference has focused on user-generated content (UGC) and how journalists should adapt to thi...

Image via Wikipedia The attitude of two Chicago news sites to comments illustrates some of the differences between new and old media. At a panel at the AEJMC...

";The closet I have come out of — it is similar to the wardrobe my relieved parents stepped out of when I unlocked the wardrobe after the police had left...

Good news for journalism students and those like myself who teach them - there are still jobs to be had in the profession, at least in the US. A study by the...

Props to TVNewser';s Steven Krakauer, who has an interview with Brian Ross of ABC News. Ross is the journalist who in 2001 fueled our national fears with his...

There was a time not too long ago when you could spot spam comments on a blog from a mile away. There were too many links, the comment was off-topic, and t...

Recently, MediaShift started running reports from ";embeds"; at various media outlets and educational institutions. This report comes from Mark Van Patten,...

Recently, MediaShift started running reports from ";embeds"; at various media outlets and educational institutions. This report comes from Alfred Hermida, ...

Last week, I ran the first part of a special three-part series on fair use in online video. With the release of the new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use o...

UPDATED ABC News'; behavior surrounding one of its biggest ";scoops"; is already an object lesson of what';s wrong with American journalism. The news organiz...

I just wanted to update readers on changes that are happening here at PBS MediaShift and Idea Lab. In early June, I put out a call for new correspondents an...

You just created the best video mash-up ever, taking a speech given by John McCain broadcast on Fox News, remixing it with the song ";Ol'; Man River,"; and...

UPDATED Below, you';ll find a pointer to Will Bunch';s American Journalism Review story about journalists'; disconnection with the communities they cover. He...

Will Bunch (American Journalism Review: Disconnected. As embattled news organizations try to safeguard their futures with intensely local coverage, there is ...

Public Campaign Action Fund just released a report on total influence spending by the big oil, coal, and electricity interests for the first half of this yea...

You';re going to Denver for the Democratic convention and you think to yourself, ";What will I need to survive this week?"; Think no further, you';ve probabl...

There are two prime negative stereotypes of elected officials. One is of the official who sticks their finger to the wind and goes whichever way it blows. Th...

On Saturday, Nancy Pelosi said she and the Democratic leadership had changed their position on offshore oil and gas exploration. Republicans have pounced on ...

Back in the last Congress, Sen.Tom Coburn, the Senate';s ";earmark sheriff,"; was chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Government Relations. From that positio...

TPMtv has an interview up with Oscar winning director Alex Gibney about his new documentary ";Casino Jack and the United States of Money."; The movie documen...

Taxpayers for Common Sense reports that federal prosecutors now allege Sen. Ted Stevens'; turned a $5,000 real estate investment into a $129,000 profit. The ...

On his campaign Web site, John McCain laments that ";wasteful special interest subsidies are not moving us toward an energy solution."; In particular, McCain...

Earmarks have become a key issue in the August 26 GOP primary for Alaska';s lone U.S. House seat. Little wonder, considering the incumbent is Don Young of Co...

Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported how targets of a Senate investigation have showered Washington with campaign contributions, in an apparent ...

Mark Warner, who's running for Virginia's open seat to the U.S. Senate and will serve as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in Denver,...

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., steered earmarks to some organizations with a board member who is also serving as a top bundler to his presidential campaign, acco...

Taxpayers for Common Sense has now posted a downloadable spreadsheet listing all earmarks from the S. 3301, the Senate Military Construction appropriations a...

Earlier today, we posted schedules for some 370 events at the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions, many of which are sponsored by private intere...

Our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense have analyzed, and compiled in a downloadable database available at the link, the earmarks from S. 3261, the Senate...

In this post and this post, we looked at an earmark Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, secured for the Saddle Road project on Big Island. I sent a query along ...

Commenter Archie Mead points out something I didn';t know about the discrepancy between Rep. Neil Abercrombie';s description of an earmark and the descriptio...

Another reason why we need members of Congress to disclose information on their residences: Rep. Robert Wexler is renting a home in his congressional distri...

The Washington Post notes that Alaskans are fretting the potential fallout of the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, for not disclosing more than $250...

Our friend Adam Hughes of OMB Watch writes: We released new data on FedSpending.org yesterday. We';ve now got a complete FY 2007 year for contracts, the firs...

A group calling itself the Consumers Rights League ran a full-page advertisement July 17 on page 5B of USA Today arguing against a bill before Congress it sa...

On July 15, "an unlikely alliance" rallied in Washington DC to "stop the war on the poor" by increasing U.S. domestic oil and gas production. The rally was o...

"The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, a recently created front group for pharmaceutical interests, has been churning out industry-funded propagand...

Whitman with Rudy GiulianiAt the Nuclear Energy Institute's (NEI's) recent conference, Penn, Schoen & Berland pollster Craig T. Smith said the industry would...

The multinational law firm Hunton & Williams -- whose clients include Altria, DTE Energy, General Dynamics and Pfizer -- has launched The Water Policy Instit...

Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) -- a coal and power industry front group -- is busy organizing opposition to America's Climate Security Act of 2...

It isn't every day that a state's largest polluter gets honored, let alone receives a national environmental prize. But odds are better when the polluter -- ...

"AngryRenter.com looks a bit like a digital ransom note, with irregular fonts, exclamation points and big red arrows -- all emphasizing prudent renters' outr...

Columnist Dimitri Vassilaros received a news release ab