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Covering Recovery: 10 Years After Katrina $5.00 September 2014 SEJ Grants Fill a Gap Funding Helps Complete Projects Covering and Ventures Page 16 Recovery Making a Environmental Journalists Federal Case Journalists Unite to Prepare for Katrina’s Free up EPA Info Flow 10th Anniversary Page 22 Page 6 Putting Safety Before Duty Ways Reporters Weather Disaster Coverage Page 23 Hurricane Hardships Bryan Norcross Writes up a Few Storms Page 38 FROM THE EDITOR Staying Safe, Staying Strong As the Society of Environmental Journalists gathers in New Orleans for its 2014 conference themed “Risk and Resilience,” attendees — occasional Bourbon Street reveling aside — will be hard-pressed not to constantly think about the ravages wrought on the region over the past CONTENTS decade by Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A DECADE DOWN THE ROAD .............. 6 As the 10th anniversary of Katrina approaches in the summer of 2015, reporters and editors A Guide to Covering Katrina’s will be looking for ways to tell compelling stories in remembrance of the catastrophe. Intended 10th Anniversary as a tool to help generate those story ideas, our cover piece explores the recommendations of NEW ORLEANS ACCENT ................... 12 the experts who dealt with the storm’s aftermath, and yields an assortment of tactics that can SEJ Gathers in a City of Risk and Resilience be taken to create thoughtful, pertinent coverage. Disaster reporting in itself is fraught with risk, and personal safety is ever central to the way MAKING ENDS MEET ........................ 16 reporters do their jobs. Whether it be hurricane, earthquake, wild re, ood, tornado or toxic Fund for Environmental Journalism Fills a Need chemical spill, it’s up to each individual to ensure they are prepared for the hazards they might encounter, as our story on page 23 concludes. EYES ON FIRST PRIZE ..................... 18 New tools — particularly the use of drones — hold the promise of helping reduce certain A Look at SEJ’s Top Award Winners risks in covering disasters, but as our article exploring the technology frontier on page 31 GOOSING GOVERNMENT .................. 22 explains, government regulation, or lack thereof, is proving an serious impediment to the Journalists Fight for Easy Access development of drone journalism. to Information Washington, D.C., has been posing a di erent set of problems for the SEJ and other journalists’ organizations as well. In a bid to stop practices in federal agencies that obstruct SAFE IN THE FIELD ........................... 23 How Journalists Handle Disaster Coverage important information from getting to the public, 38 journalism and open-government groups reached out to President Obama in a letter in July. And, more recently, the discovery FRACKING FORWARD ....................... 25 of an Environmental Protection Agency policy that channels media requests for the agency’s Exploring an Increasingly Important Beat independent scienti c advisers through the EPA’s public relations department caused a NETWORK REPORT CARD ................ 27 resounding outcry. TV News Has Climate-Change Shortcomings Di culty of access to government information is far from a new issue for journalists. But the revelation in our piece on page 22 is that they now seem more willing to do something CAPTURED ON FILM ......................... 28 about what they view as censorship, and do it loudly. Let’s call it resilience on their part. New Projects of Interest From Netfl ix, HBO and PBS — Tom Gilbert, Editor YALE ON THE AIR .............................. 29 Climate Change Clearinghouse Now on Radio ADVERTISING SALES ONLINE OFF THE TRACK .................. 30 Ph: (212) 210-0748 Reporters Lower the Bar for Internet Reporting Executive Producer: Jeff Reisman, [email protected] (212) 210-0748 Producer: EDITORIAL OFFICES ENVIRONMENTAL TECH .................... 31 Danny Schreiber, [email protected] (503) 723-9688 Reporting via Drones, Phones and Phone: (212) 210-0748 Production Manager: Nicole Dionne Virtual Reality Publisher-Editorial Director: David S. Klein Editor: Tom Gilbert SIGN-OFF ............................................. 38 Art Director: Elise Cozzi Hurricane Expert Bryan Norcross Sets Us Straight NewsPro (ISSN 2151-1764), Volume 5, Issue 2, is published regularly at Crain Communications Inc., 685 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017. Periodical postage pending at New York, NY, and additional mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: send address changes to NewsPro, Circulation Dept., 1155 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, MI 48207-2912. Cover photo: Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA NewsPro® is a registered trademark of Crain Communications Inc. Go Ahead. Bug Us. We know pesticides and fertilizers can be complex subject matters. As a national trade association, RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment)® deals with these issues every day and can serve as a resource when you’re on deadline or need more information. Call: Karen Reardon (202) 872-3893 Email: [email protected] Visit: DebugTheMyths.com September 2014 | NewsPro | 3 NewsPro Environmental 2014.indd 3 8/25/14 8:26 AM We have great news for you! America’s waste and recycling industry operates state-of-the-art landfills, where we America’s waste and recycling industry pioneered innovative technologies that conserve safely dispose nearly 165 million tons of waste every year. Industry environmental resources. We operate nearly 10,000 curbside recycling collection programs nationally. scientists, biologists, geologists, and civil engineers protect the environment and help We process more than 180,000 tons of recyclables and compost about 58,000 tons of keep Americans safe, while pursuing more sustainable waste management practices. The yard and food waste every day. By recycling materials, we conserve precious natural industry uses highly engineered designs to control all liquids, reduce air emissions and resources, save energy and reduce climate-changing emissions and air/water pollution. manage the waste. America’s waste and recycling industry is a leader in the adoption of CNG, LNG, and America’s waste and recycling industry has developed innovative technologies that turn other alternative fuel vehicles – including fuels made of landfill gas – that reduce climate- waste into a clean, renewable source of energy, including landfill-gas-to-energy projects changing emissions and air pollution and lower costs. Our industry also is investing and waste-to-energy facilities that power and heat more than 3 million homes. Waste- in state-of-the-art vehicles that use hybrid technologies. Onboard, we’re using GPS based energy also reduces greenhouse gas emissions and lessens our dependence on technology and computer software to maximize route eciency and cut fuel consumption. foreign oil and gas. Learn more today about our work. We are your source for industry facility tours, Collect. Recycle. Innovate. interviews, photos and b-roll, stats and facts. www.beginwiththebin.org • @beginwiththebin [email protected] • 202.364.3751 NWRA_Ad_SEJ_081514v2.indd 1 8/15/14 9:51 AM 14np0036a.pdf RunDate: 09/01/14 Full Page Color: 4/C 14np0036b.pdf RunDate: 09/01/14 Full Page Color: 4/C America’s waste and recycling industry operates state-of-the-art landfills, where we America’s waste and recycling industry pioneered innovative technologies that conserve safely dispose nearly 165 million tons of waste every year. Industry environmental resources. We operate nearly 10,000 curbside recycling collection programs nationally. scientists, biologists, geologists, and civil engineers protect the environment and help We process more than 180,000 tons of recyclables and compost about 58,000 tons of keep Americans safe, while pursuing more sustainable waste management practices. The yard and food waste every day. By recycling materials, we conserve precious natural industry uses highly engineered designs to control all liquids, reduce air emissions and resources, save energy and reduce climate-changing emissions and air/water pollution. manage the waste. America’s waste and recycling industry is a leader in the adoption of CNG, LNG, and America’s waste and recycling industry has developed innovative technologies that turn other alternative fuel vehicles – including fuels made of landfill gas – that reduce climate- waste into a clean, renewable source of energy, including landfill-gas-to-energy projects changing emissions and air pollution and lower costs. Our industry also is investing and waste-to-energy facilities that power and heat more than 3 million homes. Waste- in state-of-the-art vehicles that use hybrid technologies. Onboard, we’re using GPS based energy also reduces greenhouse gas emissions and lessens our dependence on technology and computer software to maximize route eciency and cut fuel consumption. foreign oil and gas. Learn more today about our work. We are your source for industry facility tours, Collect. Recycle. Innovate. interviews, photos and b-roll, stats and facts. www.beginwiththebin.org • @beginwiththebin [email protected] • 202.364.3751 NWRA_Ad_SEJ_081514v2.indd 1 8/15/14 9:51 AM 14np0036a.pdf RunDate: 09/01/14 Full Page Color: 4/C 14np0036b.pdf RunDate: 09/01/14 Full Page Color: 4/C COVER STORY Covering Recovery: 10 Years After Katrina Aftermath Experts Help Generate Story Ideas for the 2015 Anniversary of the Devastating Hurricane By Dinah Eng plethora of story ideas will be considered in the coming Levee breaches resulted in massive ­ ooding, displacing hundreds months as media outlets begin to outline coverage plans for of thousands of residents
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