"BP: A Textbook Example Of How Not To Handle PR"
BP's response to the Gulf spill disaster often made it seem callous and arrogant. It was a textbook example of how not to do public relations.
Source: NPR, 04/21/2011
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"BP Sues Halliburton in Latest Oil Spill Claim"
"BP Plc filed a lawsuit for more than $42 billion against Halliburton, which cemented the blown-out well which caused the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, after claiming a similar sum from rig owner Transocean."
Source: Reuters, 04/21/2011
A Year After Spill, Researchers Put Gulf Ecosystem Under Microscope
"Last spring, as BP's unchecked gusher of oil began to spread across the Gulf of Mexico, University of Miami oceanographer Jerald Ault tried to answer the question that was on everyone's lips: What will this do to the Gulf?"
Source: New Orelans Times-Picayune, 04/21/2011
Judge Orders National Park Service To Release FOIA'd Documents
A former employee of a restaurant in Acadia National Park won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over records the National Park Service had refused to release, about a 2008 incident when he was among those detained by Park Service police.
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Toolbox: Data Science Toolkit
If you spend a lot of time researching things on the Internet as part of your reporting, the online Data Science Toolkit, which is especially handy with geographic data, and a book by Pete Warden could make parts of your job a lot easier.
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BP Blowout Anniversary: "What's Under Elmer's Island?"
Denial of news media access to Gulf beaches has been an issue since the Deepwater Horizon disaster. There's tussling over access to (and interpretation of) scientific information on possible impacts of the spill on the Gulf ecosystem. And The Guardian obtained >30,000 pages of BP in-house memos FOIA'd by Greenpeace, which suggest BP was working hard to influence the results of the research it was paying for.
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Wisconsin: Another Case Pits Freedom of Information Against Academic Freedom
A top Wisconsin Republican party official on March 17 filed a request under the state's freedom-of-information law for emails written by University of Wisconsin's William J. Cronon, after the professor blogged about the American Legislative Exchange Council, an anti-regulatory group that lobbies state legislatures.
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Death Threats Sent To UK Weather Chief
"The head of the Met Office [the United Kingdom's national weather service] has revealed that he has received death threats from climate change sceptics."
Source: Sussex Express, 04/20/2011
Photojournalism: "Whales' Grandeur and Grace, Up Close"
Photographer Bryant Austin's eye -- and imagination -- were so captured by snorkeling close to humpback whales that he set himself to creating life-sized portraits of the creatures.
Source: NY Times, 04/20/2011
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