Publication Items

Wyden Questions FBI on Requirement for ID from FOIA Requesters [1]

A new online FOIA portal being tested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation requires requesters to provide government-issued IDs. That brought a letter seeking explanation from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR, pictured).

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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J-Groups Meet with WH Press Secretary, Seek More Openness [5]

Representatives of a coalition of 53 journalism groups met December 15, 2015, with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. The groups, including SEJ and Society of Professional Journalists, have complained about agency press offices obstructing reporters' access to officials and information.

SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Government [3]
Journalism & Media [6]
Region:
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [7]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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The Art of the Pitch: Tips for Crafting Successful Feature Story Queries [8]

Freelancer Susan Moran writes about how to write a refined, convincing, colorful query letter and follow the particular pitch path that plays to your passion, talent and financial needs.

SEJ Publication Types:
Freelance Files [9]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [4]
- Read more about The Art of the Pitch: Tips for Crafting Successful Feature Story Queries [8]
Ignoring the Elephant in the (News)room [10]

SEJ Publication Types:
Backgrounders [11]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [12]
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Regional Gathering Fuels New Approaches to Storytelling [13]

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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All in One Place at One Time [15]

Society of Environmental Journalists’ founder Jim Detjen and I were sitting together at an SEJ gathering not long ago wondering about the size of the collective readership/viewer/listenership of all of SEJ’s members. In essence, what is our potential reach? We calculated that it must be in the tens of millions. That’s power to help set the national dialogue and, in many cases, the global dialogue. Read more from SEJ President Jeff Burnside.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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On Our Watch, Say Goodbye to Tigers [17]

The quarterly SEJ President's Report in SEJournal normally examines an issue important to the future health of the Society of Environmental Journalists and what you as a member might do about it. This time, in the just-released Winter 2015 issue, Jeff Burnside's report examines a different set of responsibilities: whether journalism is asleep at the wheel in failing to sufficiently cover a looming, irreversible environmental issue. Our most iconic and beloved wild species are now on the precipice of extinction, functionally if not literally.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ Presidents Report [16]
Topics on the Beat:
Biodiversity [12]
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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SEJournal Winter 2015/2016, Vol. 25 No. 4 [18]

In this issue: On our watch, say goodbye to tigers; kickstart an EJ career with the new SEJ Emerging Environmental Journalist Award; Oregonian reporter ‘humanizes’ harm; finding stories with the National Inventory of Dams; sticking to the freelance life; author spends two decades ‘hooked on a character’; ignoring the elephant in the (news)room; journalism and science students take to field together; more.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJournal Online [19]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Fledgling to Full Grown: SEJ’s Impact on Environmental Journalism [20]

With SEJ currently celebrating its 25th anniversary year, we asked some of the society’s founders — among them luminaries in the environmental journalism profession — to share their thoughts on what the organization has meant to the field, where SEJ is going next and what they see as the big environmental stories of our time. Here are their insights.

SEJ Publication Types:
SEJ News [14]
Topics on the Beat:
Climate Change [21]
Journalism & Media [6]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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Read the Reports Congress Doesn't Want You To Read [22]

Here are some reports of possible interest to environmental journalists from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Congress does not release them to the public, but the Union of Concerned Scientists' Government Secrecy Project does.
SEJ Publication Types:
WatchDog TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Agriculture [23]
Chemicals [24]
Economy & Business [25]
Energy & Fuel [26]
Government [3]
Laws & Regulations [27]
Military [28]
Transportation [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Visibility:
Public [4]
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