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Want To Protect Your Sources? It Helps To Know the Law

With climate-related legal disputes playing out worldwide, we could see more environmental journalists facing subpoenas to access their newsgathering materials and reveal their sources. Case in point: the legal battle embroiling a news nonprofit over its coverage of pipeline protests. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’ Chris Young looks at shield laws and resources to help deal with legal threats to your journalistic integrity.

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#SEJSpotlight: Angela Rowlings, Independent Photojournalist; SEJ Board Member

Meet SEJ board member Angela Rowlings! Angela is an independent photojournalist based in Boston, Mass. and Prince Edward Island, Canada. She reports on climate, culture, politics, immigration and human rights issues, and produces long-form visual essays in Boston, Canada and Latin America.

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Help SEJ Support Journalists Like Bobby Magill

Bobby Magill is a journalist covering water, public lands and the Interior Department for Bloomberg Law in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on climate change and legal battles over the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, water supplies, oil and gas leasing, endangered species and other federal lands issues. You can help support journalists like Bobby by giving to SEJ programs, Fund for Environmental Journalism, annual conference diversity travel fellowships, members-in-need fund or creating a legacy with a free will.

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"Opinion: Could The Local News Crisis Get Any Worse? Look At Scranton."

"Chris Kelly writes a twice-weekly column for the Scranton Times-Tribune, his place of work for the past 27 years. For all but a few months of that tenure, his bosses have been the Lynett family, descendants of E.J. Lynett, a breaker boy in the coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania who went on to buy the newspaper in 1895. Over four generations, the Lynetts reminded staffers and their community alike of their commitment to both local journalism and local ownership."

Source: Washington Post, 12/18/2023

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"Nine Climate Book Stocking Stuffers"

"These affordable paperbacks can inspire everyone on your gift list."

Source: Yale Climate Connections, 12/14/2023

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January 4, 2024

DEADLINE: NYU Journalism-NABJ, NAHJ and IJA Scholarships

The New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute offers full-tuition scholarships to members of the National Association of Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous Journalists Associations admitted to one of the ten NYU Journalism graduate programs in the fall of 2024, including Science, Health & Environmental Reporting. Deadline: Jan 4, 2024.

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January 3, 2024

DEADLINE: IJNR Workshop on the Great Lakes Energy Future

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites journalists to apply by Jan 3 for this four-part workshop: three virtual one-day webinars and a multi-day in-person workshop in Chicago exploring current work being done to chart a greener course in America’s Rust Belt and what these efforts mean for the region and the country.

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NPS Teaming Up With Tribes To Tell 'More Complete Story' Of U.S. History

"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday that the National Park Service is launching an initiative with Native American tribes to tell “a more complete story of American history” at the country’s 428 national park sites."

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Source: HuffPost, 12/11/2023

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Self-Censorship Is Still Hiding in the Closet

While government censorship may worry journalists, so should self-censorship. That’s the warning in this month’s WatchDog Opinion, whether self-censorship’s “chilling effect” is driven by fears of attack, legal or physical, or by distortions in what it means to be fair, a “bothsidesism” usually pushed by one-sided players. But the bottom line, the column argues, is that when the truth is knowable and known, journalists owe it to their audiences to make the call.

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January 22, 2024

DEADLINE: EJN Story Grant and Training Program for Indigenous Environmental Journalists

Internews' Earth Journalism Network is offering mentoring and story grants of up to US$1,400 to Indigenous journalists from any country to support the production of in-depth environmental stories on climate justice, biodiversity, sustainable ecosystems, Indigenous sovereignty and leadership, and more. Deadline: Jan 22, 2024.

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