"Oil-Industry Group Hires New Leader for Media Team"
"As it works to reshape the oil industry's image, American Petroleum Institute's media shop has nabbed a former spokesman for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."
Source: Greenwire, 07/14/2010
Journalism & Media
Whistleblower: 'They Just Don't Know Who They're Messing With'
BP and the Coast Guard, after months of blocking news media from covering the Gulf spill, say they have gone straight. One whistleblower who used to help them block TV coverage is now telling all.
Source: Mother Jones, 07/14/2010
Media Play Key, Sometimes Misleading, Role in Public's View of Climate Research
The media may play a role in misleading the public, especially when journalists attempt a "false balance" in stories, giving equal treatment to climate science skeptics who question the validity of climate science studies.
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SEJ Launches New Grant Program for Reporting Projects
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Here's the Pitch: Help Guide SEJ and Its Mission To Serve the Search for Facts
SEJ President Christy George explains all the exellent reasons why you should run for the SEJ board of directors in the upcoming election.
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On-line Journalism Begins To Fill the Void After Newspaper World’s Decay
SEJournal's Bill Dawson interviews Environmental Health News editor-in-chief Marla Cone, who left the Los Angeles Times in 2008, after almost two decades. Since then, Cone has overseen a number of major changes at the not-for-profit online publication.
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Media Give Climate Science Exoneration Less Ink Than False Charges
Mainstream news media have given far less coverage to the five major panels that have debunked the "climategate" stolen-email flap kicked up by the fossil-fuel blogosphere than they did to the original charges now proven false.
Source: Huffington Post, 07/13/2010
"Coast Guard Lifts Ban on News Coverage Near Oil Spill Boom"
"The Coast Guard has modified a policy on safety zones around boom deployed on oiled coastlines, a policy news organizations had said unnecessarily restricted coverage of the impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and efforts to clean it up."
Source: AP, 07/13/2010
"Despite Obama's Lofty Words, Scientific Integrity Rules Are Lagging"
"Last March, President Obama promised he'd have a strategy for restoring scientific integrity to the federal government on hand by July 29. A full year later, federal agencies still have not received any new directives and some government scientists say that conditions have not improved noticeably since Obama took power."
Source: Huffington Post, 07/12/2010
"Politicians Cancel Oilsands Pollution Probe, Tear up Draft Reports"
"OTTAWA - Federal politicians from the government and opposition benches have mysteriously cancelled an 18-month investigation into oilsands pollution in water and opted to destroy draft copies of their final report."
Source: Canwest, 07/07/2010
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