I’ve been a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists for a number of years, but every year when my renewal notice comes up I wrestle anew with the membership and the label it entails.* I’m a journalist who covers topics that are sometimes labeled “environmental”, but I’m not sure how to define the subject …
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[A]n informed and properly motivated risk communicator would proceed deliberately and cautiously. In particular, because efforts to quiet public fears about vaccines will predictably create some level of exactly that fear, such a communicator will not engage in a high-profile, sustained campaign to “reassure” the general public that vaccines are safe without reason to believe …
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Apologies to regular readers, these are some links for UNM Daily Lobo crew, with whom I’ll be chatting this afternoon: Google My Maps tutorial Buildings named after Pete Domenici Journal crime map The Broad Street Pump My favorite balloon-watching spots An example of a screen grab map Downloaded Drought Monitor map Sunday bird blogging, Cormorant …
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Lingering at my sister Lisa’s dining room table this evening after dinner, my eye drifted to this casserole on a shelf opposite. My memories of childhood are vague, and I often depend on Lisa for the sort of specifics I can’t quite grab hold of. But neither of us could remember the casserole’s story, other …
An earlier version of a caption with this obituary referred incorrectly to the attack that blinded Ms. Pugach. It involved lye, which is a caustic base, not acid. Linda Riss Pugach, Whose Life Was Ripped From Headlines, Dies at 75
With apologies to the regular audience, I’m talking to students tomorrow morning at Lobocamp, using this post to share some links with the students: Census Bureau Census Bureau: Economic Characteristics of New Mexico Counties St. Louis FRED St. Louis FRED: New Mexico construction St. Luis Fred: New Mexico and its neighbors’ construction employment Energy Information …
I consider the business model that supports my journalism a great privilege. But I understand that a big part of the benefit offered by news production is a classic case of what economists call a “public good“. That is to say, civil society as a whole benefits, even if you don’t have the time to …
I happened to be in the midst of reading Kuhn vs. Popper when I ran across this, by Nicholas Lemann, on the sometimes clumsy dance between narrative and analysis in journalism: Forming a hypothesis. It’s healthier to admit to yourself that you have one than to go into a story with the idea that you have no …