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PDF Download ournal Fall 2010, Vol. 20 No. 3 Gulf Oil Calamity Inside ProPublica's coverage of the oil disaster SEJ 2010 award winners Put a little humor on your website Post-disaster journalism A quarterly publication of the Society of Environmental Journalists 20111 CALLCALL Metcalf Institute will offer two programs in 2011 on the emerging science and impacts of FOR ENTRIESTRIES the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Metcalf provides fellowships for journalists to learn about science and the research process, from interpreting the broad impact of environmental issues to understanding the principles of scientific research. Science Seminar: Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill April 2011 Metcalf Institute, Louisiana State University and Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium will offer a 2.5-day seminar for Gulf of Mexico-based journalists and informal science educators. 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Thomas Inside Story: The ProPublica team dug deeply and quickly into BP page 12 page 24 and its Gulf oil mess By Bill Dawson The Beat: A surge of stories spews from the darkness of the page 16 deep ocean BP oil leak By Bill Dawson page 14 columns President’s Report: SEJ: A rare flower of international distinction page 4 By Christy George Material reproduced in this publication under a Creative Reporter’s Toolbox: Covering recovery from disasters page 14 Commons license meets all required terms and condi- By Jim Schwab tions. For details, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/. E-Biz Reporting: Gulf oil leak shrouds climate change but still holds key lessons page 19 By Bud Ward Science Survey: The new invader, lionfish, raises major concerns for page 20 ocean reef systems By Rae Tyson Bits and Bytes: Try a little carp humor to woo more traffic to your online news site page 22 SEJ News: SEJ awarded prestigious international prize page 24 SEJ’s 2010 award winners for reporting on the environment page 25 Media on the Move: New blogs, awards and prize-winning books page 27 By Judy Fahys COVER PHOTO: A small oil-drenched heron (its exact Book Shelf Book Reviews page 28 species undeterminable) being recovered in late June by coastal management officials from Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Photo by Matthew Hinton/ The Times-Picayune 3 SEJournal Fall 2010 SEJ President’s Report SEJ: A rare flower of international distinction By CHRISTY GEORGE SEJ has gone international. and thumbs down to the latest science on methane releases from We SEJ-ers have been bragging for a long time that at any melting permafrost.) given time, we represent roughly 1,500 members in more than 30 I saw evidence of a different disconnect in China in May, on countries. And a few years ago, we helped set up a group like SEJ an International Reporting Project Gatekeepers trip. China’s in Mexico. But the idea that SEJ exists around the world has truly government talks bullish on moving to a post-carbon economy, and come home this year. in Sichuan Province, devastated by a 2008 earthquake, we saw new The most compelling manifestation of SEJ’s new global buildings going up with low-flow toilets and compact fluorescent profile was winning this year’s Gulbenkian International Prize, light bulbs. But when it comes to a choice between protecting the awarded for SEJ’s contribution to “humanity’s relationship with environment or growing China’s GDP, the country’s powerful nature and respect for biodiversity.” SEJ shared this year’s environment minister told us GDP wins every time. Prize — and €100,000 (that’s € for Euros) — with the Institute for SEJ-er James Fahn has been helping journalists from Alpine Environment. developing countries gain reporting skills through Internews and SEJ was singled out for environmental journalism’s the Earth Journalism Network. SEJ-ers Bob Thomas, Rob Taylor “contribution to creating an informed and enlightened public and SEJ founding president Jim Detjen have all worked with the opinion.” (See story, page 24.) International Federation of Environmental Journalists, helping That’s exactly what SEJ does. For real. environmental journalists everywhere become watchdogs in their No one could’ve been prouder than SEJ Executive Director own countries. Beth Parke, who went to Lisbon in July to accept the Gulbenkian Then there’s the fledgling international environmental Prize on SEJ’s behalf. Beth — and the core SEJ staff, Conference journalists exchange program, started by Tom Yulsman of the Director Jay Letto and Director of Programs and Operations Chris Center for Environmental Journalism at UC Boulder, and Reggie Rigel — have been there from the beginning, nurturing a fledging Dale of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in j-group, feeding and watering this rare new species until it grew Washington, D.C. into a flower of rare distinction — a world class perennial. Starting with an invitation on the SEJ-Talk listserv in the fall Beth knew better than most of us that SEJ deserved that award. of 2008, the Transatlantic Media Network (TMN) has brought She and other staffers at SEJ’s Jenkintown, PA headquarters together beat reporters from Europe and the U.S. three times to routinely field queries from environmental journalists abroad — share stories and compare notes. The most recent meeting, in from Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. Copenhagen this past summer, looked at what went wrong at the These are places where sometimes the biggest problem is not 2009 climate summit and the state of journalism in Europe. It turns always stonewalling by public officials, but opponents who treat out Europe is now experiencing a news business meltdown, about unwanted news coverage as a capital offense. One foreign a year behind the United States. journalist even sought political asylum at an SEJ conference There really is a global economy, and we’re all in it. several years back. And we’re hearing a lot lately from our international It’s no surprise when you think about it. The pace of global members, who want the same rights and privileges our North environmental change is quickening, and the brunt of the impact American members get. When we launched the Fund for Environ- falls on the developing world. mental Journalism, we heard from members abroad that they While there may be nothing new about reporters under fire, wanted to be eligible for the fund, too. When we put the word out attacks on environmental journalists are escalating. Two that the University of Montana was generously making it possible Indonesian journalists were murdered within days of one another to bring 20 SEJ members to this year’s conference, we also heard this past summer. Both wrote about illegal logging. One had from members beyond the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Why, they recently begun reporting on coal mining. asked, can’t we get a fellowship to Missoula, too? Apart from the risks we take, we are all surprisingly similar. Why, indeed? I learned that myself this year, starting with a BBC World Sure, there might be complications with visas and foreign Service interview in April, looking at the state of environmental currency and sure,
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