A couple months ago James Ball came to spend a day teaching Freedom of Information and other skills to the MA Online Journalism students at BiRin...

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Anyone that has followed Spot.Us from the beginning knows we've tried to remain iterative and agile. In the earlier stages of Spot.Us I thought this was one ...

In a recent post on my website I examined an ethical argument for transparency. I will continue this internal dialogue with the caveat that I am not a journa...

How do you get the expense receipts for election candidates? It's really very simple - so why isn't everyone doing it? You first neElections Off...

I've just put all the election expenses for the main 2 candidates in the fiercely so that people can look at them, post comments and link to them...

If one can make an ethical argument for participation in journalism and that transparency is necessary for participation to occur, then it follows that there...

It seems having a camera is as essential to a modern protest as the bongo drum probably was at my father's protests in the 60′s (sorry dad, was that a low ...

Note: This is the second attempt at this post on a sleepless Saturday night. The first and better draft was lost. Alas, this one may be less robust. I've alw...

It seems recognition of Help Me Investigate is spreading: last week the site was shortlisted for Multimedia Publisher of the Year at the NUJ Regi...

At last week's Future Civic Media conference at MIT there was a barcamp session on 'collaborations in the newsroom' led by Josh Stearns from Save The News. (...

If: Information is power. And: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Then: Absolute information corrupts absolutely. What is WIkiLeaks: Acco...

Mark Glaser at PBS Idea Lab has the FULL scoop. As a past winner I try to help out at the PBS Idea Lab blog when I can, so I interviewed a few of the winners...

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The beauty of starting something from scratch is the iterative and agile process I've talked about since before Spot.Us began. In this post I'm going to disc...

Hello there,The very generous people at Scraping Arts - in Australia, no less - have offered 4 hours of free data gat, to anyone pursuing an inve...

I am a big supporter of anyone trying new things in journalism. I think my actions over the last several years speak to that. If you have an earnest drive to...

Birmingham City Council have published a report into the content management system that was investigated by Help Me Investigate users last year a...

Are you looking for experience in investigative journalism or community management? We are currently looking for interns to spend a weekThe inte...

How are you doing? Late night? Well, here's the latest from Help Me Investigate - see if you can make a difference...Who funds the New Schools Ne...

People were understandably angry that they had to pay up to 40p to call their General Practitioner (GP) because of 0845 numbers, and so began Why...

Here's one investigation which you can help with by simply looking at your local council website:Glyn Mottershead wants you to help him find out ...

Sometimes an investigation involves searching for something on a particular council website. Quite often the search facility on a council webs On...

The investigation into payments of bonuses at Birmingham City Council has revealed that the council saved £5.5million in bonus payments between ...

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...

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...

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"Well begun," said Mary Poppins, "is half done." Many experienced writers feel that way about the beginning of a story. Some testify that they mi...

The House Ethics Committee investigative subcommittee that has spent the past eighteen months investigating allegations of ethical impropriety against Rep. C...

Online video has made quite a bit of progress since the early days of Quicktime and RealMedia, technologies so slugish it was easier to walk to Blockbuster a...

Update 2: Rangel has not cut a deal. Adjudicatory subcommittee ranking member Mike McCaul just stated, 'we are in the trial phase.' Update: Or not, according...

Last year I asked the internet gods for a URL shortener that created permanent links to legislation on THOMAS. Lo and behold, several months later TinyThom.a...

While the daily press is testing paywalls, some with big holes, some with small, some with rungs, some without, news start-ups are taking a different route, ...

News organizations' default response to criticism is to circle the wagons. "We stand by our story!" is a stirring thing to say, and sometimes it's even th...

At 1 pm the House Ethics Committee will hold a public meeting to reveal the ethics charges against Rep. Charlie Rangel. It is still unknown what Rangel will ...

In all the kerfuffle this week around WikiLeaks and its disclosure of 91,000+ documents in its Afghan War Diary, it seems to me that a fundamental irony has ...

While the temperature in Las Vegas and Washington appeared similar during last week, the drastic divergence in humidity made the dry heat at Netroots Nation ...

When I think about my project, SochiReporter, I often recall the seminal 1961 book by Jane Jacobs, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." This book...

We are another step closer to the end of secret holds in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has placed the Secret Holds Elimination Act on the Sen...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted out S. 3335, the Earmark Transparency Act today, but not without objections. The bill w...

By Robert Niles: CHICAGO - I recently spent an afternoon at the Art Institute of Chicago, admiring, among many other works, the museum's famed "A Sunday Afte...

It looks like it's a choice of leaving on your own two feet or getting hoisted up by your collar and thrown out of the bar. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer prett...

57-41 cloture fails. Olympia Snowe votes 'no' on DISCLOSE Act cloture vote. For full live-blog see below: The Senate is getting ready to vote on the DISCLOSE...

[Matthew Battles is one of my favorite thinkers about how we read, consume, and learn. He's reading and reacting to Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus and Nicho...

Sometimes you can spend an entire morning racing the clock to put together the perfect blog post, and once you're done, find a quote or two that would have l...

I'm very pleased to provide an update on the case of Hollman Morris, which I've written about here and here. Hollman is the noted Colombian journalist who wa...

Anyone that has followed Spot.Us from the beginning knows we've tried to remain iterative and agile. In the earlier stages of Spot.Us I thought this was o...

Last night, Facebook unveiled a project that it's had in the works for a while: a media page devoted to journalists, developers, and other 'media partners.' ...

Whenever big news breaks that's both (a) exciting and (b) relevant to the stuff I research, I put myself through a little mental exercise. I pretend I have a...

The TED talk of Ethan Zuckerman, the founder of the international blogging site Global Voices, provides amazing insight into the challenges of telling intern...

By Robert Niles: As a former statistics major, I know that no one should read too much into a single example. But watching my 10-year-old son embrace video p...

In a recent post on my website I examined an ethical argument for transparency. I will continue this internal dialogue with the caveat that I am not a jour...

Last week, I met with two people from a non-profit in Phoenix that looks at progressive policies to balance economic development with the environment. Land u...

By Pamela Moreland: The team behind foodgal.com called my bluff. Well, maybe I wasn�t bluffing. Maybe I am ready to become a digital media entrepreneur. We�l...

In Grahamstown, South Africa, getting and sharing news is a mobile experience. Grocott's Mail, a local paper, incorporates mobile phones into many aspects of...

It's summertime, and despite the occasional rainstorm �" which left the Lab's office flooded earlier this month and still a little stinky �" the bright sun...

Because it is Friday: check out the trailer for "The Other Social Network," the Hollywood treatment of...MySpace http:/ / j.mp/ btLRoj � So this is exciting:...

[NOTE: I'm experimenting with ProPublica's new "steal our stories" republication feature. Forgive me as I continue to try out different online syndication mo...

The Knight-Batten Award winners have been announced, and Sunlight Live took the $10,000 grand prize for its experiment in providing real-time data context to...

Boring, bland, lifeless offices don't benefit anyone: Research has shown that a healthy office space with plants and open windows is more conducive to produc...

Nothing destroys the credibility of a site quicker than corporate shillery: Should ScienceBlogs.com have agreed to host a controversial blog on nutrition, wr...

The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity �" and generosity

Despite the risk, urban cycling is a healthier option The authors found that for the individuals who shift from car to bicycle, the benefits gained by increa...

�Gate Fever Breaks �" Dot Earth Blog �" NYTimes.com: The  Independent Climate Change Email Review is finished and, within its constrained mandate, has cl...

Congratulations to the millions of American sports fans who started paying attention to the United States men's soccer team over the last few weeks at the Wo...

PreviouslyHalloween debriefing, baby-friendly in 2007Notes on migrating three quarters of a mileWell that was an interesting week

Building more roads to alleviate congestion only causes more congestion: It seems like a logical conclusion that if your streets are clogged, you need more l...

Reading the New Yorker's piece on WikiLeaks, it's hard to decide whether I'm reading about freedom fighters, skilled propagandists, or as is often the case, ...

If the oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico can't be contained, it could leak half a billion barrels of oil into the ocean. By comparison, the Exxon Valde...

Christopher Montgomery, founder of the Xiph.org Foundation, on why software patents suck and need reform: “Patents are like every teenager carrying a hand ...

Remember the great print vs. online war of 1995-2005? Well, some of you are probably still fighting this war, eh? Not everyone got the news yet, but the war ...

There's news this week about a very interesting little deal in the B2B world.Canon Communications has purchased Pharmalot, the extraordinary little blog that...

I'm always on the lookout for interesting products and new developments in B2B editorial. And as regular readers of this blog know, I've found the pickings p...

From Yahoo's Mobile Blog: 'As expected within the classic early-adopter profile, we identified a male skew in the 35-44 age group among these early users. In...

Remember all of those awesome inforgraphics you've found across the internet? You know like the giant social media map or the subway map of Internet trends. ...

From the Shaping The Newspaper Blog, sourced from a Morgan Stanley Research report: 'To the surprise of many, Facebook in not just the privilege of tech-savv...

From Aron Pilhofer writing at MediaShift: 'This is a problem of no small significance, because as the career paths of journalists and developers converge, th...

Exactly a year ago today, I worked my last day in corporate at a newspaper company and walked out the door to three days of technical unemployment before I s...

From Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard: 'The great mistake so many newspapers and media outlets made was to turn on the comments software and then walk out of the r...

Another goodie from XKCD, which is on a roll of late: Share:

It's easy to get followers; it's hard to get good followers. Be patient. There are a bunch of tools to get people and organizations a mass of Twitter follo...

A team of Northwestern University students led by pioneering professor Rich Gordon has published the results of a compelling analysis on Legacy.com and the f...

From the NYTimes: 'The popularity of Snopes �" it attracts seven million to eight million unique visitors in an average month �" puts the couple in a uniqu...

A debate has sprung up in the blogosphere about libertarianism and millennials based on this OkCupid post on political leanings and generations. (hat tip to...

See the original at XKCD, my all-time favorite webcomic. Share:

I don't have to be at an airport for nearly 48 hours.I don't have a phone call scheduled for another hour.My daughter is out with her grandmother.Jeez! This ...

By now, you've probably read glowing review after glowing review of the iPad by tech columnists, but I want to share my experiences with you when I get my iP...

journalism.org The Project for Excellence in Journalism reports 22% of the news links on blogs last week were about the Washington Post's story on the photo ...

Statement sent to Romenesko from Dow Jones corporate communications senior director Ashley S. Huston As NPR's ombudsman, [Alicia] Shepard is not in a positio...

Wall Street Journal | MarketWatch Washington Post Co. is balking at selling Newsweek to Avenue Capital Group amid concerns over the hedge fund's...

True/ Slant "To be honest, I'll miss True/ Slant," writes Neal Ungerleider. "The idea of matching experienced writers with a guaranteed network ...

Village Voice | Austin Chronicle Voice editor Tony Ortega thought Austin Chronicle editor Louis Black had accused him of giving up on the "alter...

Los Angeles Times | Twitter.com "I'll definitely do it," Shirley Sherrod said at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego. || Po...

Nieman Journalism Lab Texas Tribune's plan calls for a third of the site's funding to come from memberships, aiming toward a goal of 10,000 memb...

Associated Press Also, the newspaper chain says advertising trends are improving. Second quarter revenue fell 6 percent to $342 million from $365.3 million. ...

PBS.org PBS "Need to Know" executive producer Shelley Lewis asks critics of Andy Borowitz's segment: "Is a little joking about Ms. Palin's pencha...

Washington Post "Without more investigation [by mainstream media reporters], more work, more journalism, these [WikiLeaks] documents just don't ...

American Society of News Editors release A small group of online-only news organizations appears to have more diverse newsrooms than the nation's traditional...

Time.com "Some think children are so used to seeing violence in the media that the image will have little effect," writes editor Rick Stengel, "...

Chicago Reader The music website has a no "professional cameras, no detachable lenses" rule at its festivals, but Ben Joravsky and Sam Adams note there's a s...

Village Voice "Rupert Murdoch was so enthralled with the story when it ran, that he called Post editor-in-chief Col Allan to personally congratu...

Washington Post Seven Post reporters spent Wednesday listening to people at coffeehouses and gathering information for their stories. The pieces have been po...

Slate | Daily Beast | Democracy Now "Leave the reader wanting more and then deliver the next day," writes Jack Shafer. "By pouring out [WikiLeak...

NPR.org Alicia Shepard says a Wall Street Journal reporter's story about Toyota and driver errors -- aired on "All Things Considered" -- shows why NPR should...

Fox Business News | Washington Post Dunstan Prial says a provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation exempts the SEC from dis...

Voice of Orange County "The Bell spectacle is what happens to communities without their own old-fashioned diligent news coverage by veteran newspaper reporte...

Poynter Online | Forbes | Neon Tommy | WSJ It's an information broker that collects secrets and negotiates how they will be revealed. Steve Myer...

AdAge.com "When I think about those guys, I think about something I saw in the movie version of the Cormac McCarthy novel, 'The Road,'" says Cap...

Pitch.com Joe Tone sees Gay Talese's "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, 1966) boiled down to a tweet: "@GayTaleseEsq RT @OldBlueEyes: I'm feeling kind of s...

NPR.org Thirty-five photojournalists recently met in Oregon to surprise former Topeka Capital-Journal photo director Rich Clarkson (left). "What...

Politico.com NBC's Chuck Todd included. "Journolist was pretty offensive," he tells Roger Simon. "Those of us who are mainstream journalists got...

Politics Today Walter Shapiro doesn't like that, and proposes a Slow News Movement.

One way to reset the relationship of government and the public �" from constant complaint �" is to make it collaborative �" thus constructive. In my polly...

As part of an ongoing series on recent graduates who have gone into online journalism, Dave Lee talks about how he won a BBC job straight f...

UPDATE: You can vote to repeal the ban on recording court proceedings here (Thanks to Alistair Kelman in the comments) Heather Brooke is cal...

Behind the story of the BBC website's recent relaunch is, among other things, an update to their content management system. In a post on th...

I have to admit I didn't see this one coming... traditional media corporations in Latin America are launching news sites based exclusively o...

French data journalism outfit Owni have put together an impressive app (also in English) that attempts to put a user-friendly interface on ...

If you're interested in researching online journalism full time there are a couple of opportunities available at the moment: The first is a ...

I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, whether his paper should have started Wikileaks. I wondered whether the Guardian was looking at WIk...

You may remember 'investigation' by The Hull Daily Mail into HU17.net, a hyperlocal publisher that was operating on its patch back in March,...

Last week I spent a thoroughly fascinating day at a hackday for journalists and web developers organised by Scraperwiki. It's an experience...

Facebook has launched a Media page offering 'best practices for journalists'. It's a rather breathless creation, filled with ad-speak, but i...

Is no secret safe? That's the moral to the Wikileaks war log story: you never know what might be leaked. Of course, that itself is nothing new: Whenever we r...

Computerworld reports on plans by Wikileaks to allow 'newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators and others to embed an ...

"In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileak...

There are those in the press and government who don't like or trust the public they serve. It is an unliberal attitude�"which can come from Liberals, by the...

Condé Nast is a house built on smoke and mirrors �" that is, to say, on brand advertising. So it is astonishing to hear its CEO, Chuck Townsend, essentiall...

I've been looking for a classic example of so-called, self-appointed 'privacy advocates' gathered by the press going off the deep-end (if you have any, pleas...

Are you a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)? Or are you living near Denver? If so, you might consider atte...

I agree with Devin Coldewey at CrunchGear that Andrew Wylie's deal to publish big authors' backlists exclusively on the Amazon Kindle is bad for readers (and...

Google just issued a response to the Federal Trade commission's staff discussion draft on potential recommendations to support the reinvention [read: preserv...

Three examples of back-handed positive coverage for Facebook: * bNet praises the anticipated Facebook Stories campaign about the service's 500 million frien...

Peter Baker's column in The New York Times on Sunday provides a textbook example of journalistic blindness. He discusses how politicians and pundits attack o...

One of my great joys researching Public Parts, my book about the benefits of publicness, is finding parallels between today and the early modern period of th...

Jim Dwyer won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1995 for his work as a local columnist for Newsday. Today he is a local columnist for The New York Tim...

I just don't understand Columbia University's apparent obsession with handing over portions of the press to government subsidy, giving up on the free market....

German researchers have found that�"heated rhetoric about privacy aside�"people are willing to give away personal information in exchange for a bargain. Th...

Bravo. The Court of Appeals has struck down the FCC's indecency rule �" specifically, its fines for 'fleeting expletives' �" as 'unconstitutionally vague.'...

I've been debating my phone strategy: I now have a two-generations-old iPhone on AT&T and a Nexus One on T-Mobile plus an AT&T laptop card. Do I buy the new...

I think Google's App Inventor tool that enables anyone to program an Android app could be profound. But then, I thought Buzz was a big deal, so what the hell...

There's something surprisingly tragic about Apple's latest touching, brilliant commercials for the iPhone 4's FaceTime. At the end of each of these commercia...

Have I told you the story of flying into Philadelphia and being pulled out of line at immigration, getting escorted to a small, windowless room and waiting t...

It was hot �" hard-to-catch-your-breath hot - way after the sun went down, but that didn't stop thousands of concertgoers from flocking to the new Downtown ...

We picked a few plums (on the right) and nectarines this morning, the first significant fruit of the season for us. We lost the cherries to the birds, and ...

My friend Andy Bechtel, a journalism professor at UNC, reports that Pam Nelson of the News & Observer, is going to be on Jeopardy tonight.read more

You know that job you had that was the worst? Mine was working a summer at a rock quarry. For a teenage boy it seemed like a good idea at the time. Outside. ...

After an unusually cool spring and early summer, we have some heat at Redwing �" not often the triple digits we see this time of year, but lots of bright, ...

We've hired Jason Wolf of the Danville Register & Bee as our high school sports writer. Just in time, too, as high school football practice is about to begin...

He knew that there could be no meaning to someone who was dead. Meaning came out of living. Meaning could come only from his choices and actions. Meaning was...

Mark Binker reports on one positive action taken by the General Assembly and now awaiting Gov. Perdue's signature. Well, actually, Mark quotes the city attor...

Congratulations to the Pet Shop blog and to Lorraine Ahearn, who were honored by the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors today.read more

Marta Mossburg -- otherwise known to News & Record readers of a few years ago as Marta Hummel -- has a column in the Wall Streetread more

This just seems to be a day for open government issues. Might as well add one more.read more

Continuing today's theme of explaining actions and behaviors in public, there is the investigation at UNC.Luke DeCock at the News & Observer does a good job ...

We'll know more today about what the ABC Board thinks about the behavior and practices of its general manager. But Mark Binker's latest post about the contro...

If you have read the comments on this blog for a while, you might think that people don't care for anything but hard news reporting, investigative stories an...

A 25-year newspaper subscriber told me that he canceled his subscription last year because the paper had no "decent news" in it. He elaborated:  "Most of y...

Two people in the comment field here made reference to proper AP style in my writing. Why they would know the AP Stylebook when they aren't newspaper journal...

Placing the blame where it belongs last week:Steve Jobs: We're not feeling right now that we have a giant problem we need to fix. This has been blown so out ...

I wonder if this guy will read this guy.read more

Journalism needs government help. Media budgets have been decimated as the Internet facilitates a communications revolution. More public funding for news-gat...

You know who John Roberts is, right? Supreme Court Chief Justice. Not Thurgood Marshall. You're smarter than 72% of the people.You certainly know that Congre...

We run job applicants for news positions through a variety of interviews and tests. Yes, tests �" grammar, spelling and math.The good folks at ReadWriteWeb ...

A year ago, we reduced the size of our weather package by half, eliminating the state map and some temperatures from around the world. We wanted to use that...

Binker gets a shout-out from Creative Loafing.read more

A soccer fan wrote to say how impressed he was that 700 million people around the world watched yesterday's World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands...

You probably think that covering the state capital is a cush job. You get a front-row seat to watch the wheels of government roll, hang out with powerful pe...

That's the front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer today.  You can't read the fine print but it says: "7 years, $62 million, no rings."read more

Hal Tarleton, former editor of the Wilson Daily Times, nails it.read more

The rules of conduct, the maxims of actions, and the tactical instincts that serve to gain small victories may always be expanded into the winning of great o...

Some of you will remember that my first online endeavor was to launch an online news site in eastern San Diego County called East County Online. That was in ...

These days it's not so unusual for a public radio program to boast a companion blog. But few shows begin online and move to broadcast.Pop and Po...

US researchers at Northeastern University, Boston, have shown the potential value of the millions of messages on Twitter. They created a Twitter Mood Map to...

Tim Kring, a long-time television writer and producer, is best known as the creator of tNBC show 'Heroes.' But he's rapidly expanding his media ...

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Einar Thorsen of Bournemouth University, UK, was one of the final presenters at the IAMCR 2010 in Braga. He looked at how the relationship between BBC online...

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On Wednesday 21 July, I'll be talking at the IAMCR conference in Braga about our integrated journalism programme at the Graduate School of Journalism, Univer...

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Henrik Ornebring of University of Oxford gave a quick overview of his six-nation comparative study of the skills of journalists at the IAMCR 2010 in Braga. T...

I am at the IAMCR conference in Braga this week and plan to blog about the latest in journalism research. In a session on journalism and innovation, David N...

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Once a week, representatives from liberal publications such as AlterNet, Yes! Magazine, the American Independent News Network, the UpTake, and ...

If advertising alone isn't going to support all the online journalism and content sites, and pay walls will just turn readers away, perhapKac">...

This article was co-authored by Neil Heyside. The media and publishing industry -- and print publishing in particular -- do There's still oppo...

A little over three years ago, I started working as the communications manager for Wikipe. I had just moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., and was ecs...

SEO tends to have a bad reputation among some journalists. Many tend to see search engine optimisation as the equivalent of writing headlines for robots. But...

The World Journalism Education Congress is taking place in South Africa with the theme of 'Journalism education in an age of radical change.' Unfortunately I...

The report by Fleishman-Hillard into the Internet's influence in seven countries reveals a paradox when it comes to social media. While more users are embrac...

This presentation by Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, highlights how media habits in the US have changed in the past 10 year...

News of the 5.5 earthquake that hit the Ontario-Quebec border broke on Twitter. The snapshot from Trendsmap, taken shortly after the quake, highlights the st...

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 ...

Most journalists these days would love to have the choice John Mecklin faced three years ago. As editor-in-chief of High Country News, Mecklin was attending...

Tony Broccoli has spent the past two decades working to engage lay audiences about climate change. For him, that interest has meant using concrete, relatable...

In the wake of last week's defeat of cap and trade, the predictable narrative offered by bloggers and commentators has been to blame the failure on indus...

In reaction to our BMC Public Health study published this month that examined the potential to re-frame climate change in terms of health, reader Stephanie P...

The announcement of this award is an important step towards greater recognition of the need for public engagement on the part of scientists and their institu...

Even wary journalists find little evidence of whitewash

It’s a big deal. Where’s the print coverage?

Remembering an esteemed scientist’s contributions to the media over three decades

View larger image Schneider and wife Terry Root at 2008 Rothbury Festival Global Warming 'Think Tank.' The planet feels hotter now, and certainly more a...

Changing the conversation about climate change: Graduate students from American and George Mason Universities prepare interview tent on the National Mall. ...

Reporters pay respect to climate scientist and “mediarologist�

By Curtis Brainard Science and environment coverage, often marginalized in daily newspapers and news magazines, has helped drive exceptional growth at Mother...

Chairman apologies to scientists for previous letter

News reports tread the line between confidence and caution

Contractor who obstructed WDSU reporter's access to beach cleanup decides to talk

Black carbon, a component of soot, and potentially one of the most important contributors to climate change, rises into the atmosphere each time someone fire...

Kurtz wants some; so does the Times, though it doesn’t deliver

Letter steers scientists away from the press, despite recent calls for transparency

A Q&A with Steve Gutkin

Change is afoot in the number of international journalists in developing countries reporting on global climate change. With a yearly budget of $1 million, th...

In their climate science history book Merchants of Doubt, authors Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway leave little doubt about their disdain for what they regard ...

Until BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion in April and continuing oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, many in the news media covered deepwater oil explorati...

Paper finally retracts Amazongate, aggressive-blondes articles

Protesting Pepsi’s new nutrition blog, writers defect from respected site

Reviews vindicating scientists get strong blog coverage, but more high-profile stories are needed

Another giant toxic emission from the oil giant goes undernoticed until now

Does an overly simplified perspective on black carbon, one of the most important contributors to climate change, risk society's missing an important opportun...

They were two very different front-page stories about global climate change. One, in the Boston Globe, was a lifestyle piece about two long-time colleagues a...

Held in over 30 countries, the World Wide Views on Global Warming initiative represents the state-of-the-art in new approaches to public engagement, the su...

You have to like the U.S. chances in advancing to the semi-finals of the World Cup. That's right, the semi-finals. If the U.S. beats Ghana on Saturday--and...