SEJournal Fall 2014, Vol. 24 No. 3

SEJournal
Fall 2014, Vol. 24 No. 3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SEJ President's Report
Celebrating 25 Years, Fluff Free
By DON HOPEY

Special Report
Tracking the Fracking Boom: Coverage Basics, Questions To Ask in Reporting on Spread of Shale Oil and Gas Development
By BOBBY MAGILL

Reporter's Toolbox
Taking the Chaos out of Your Disaster Coverage
By NANCY GAARDER

• Sidebar: Your Packing List for Reporting a Natural Disaster
  By EMILY GERTZ

Feature
Swimming With a New Tide
By ROGER ARCHIBALD

Inside Story
Trendspotting on the Science Beat: Award Winner Makes Technical Training a Strength in Uncovering Sources, Stories

Freelance Files
Committing to Collaboration: How Two Freelancers Pulled Off a Cross-Pacific Partnership
By WINIFRED BIRD and JANE BRAXTON LITTLE

SEJ News
Mentoring Match: Veteran Freelancer Guides Radio Rookie
By KAREN SCHAEFER and LANA STRAUB

EJ Academy
From Classroom to Bookshelf: Publishing a DIY Guide to Local Environmental Issues
By DON CORRIGAN

Between the Lines
Scapegoating the Grey Seal: How an Author Fought Government Information Restrictions

Book Shelf Book Reviews

"The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food"
By Dan Barber
Penguin Press, $29.95
Reviewed by Jennifer Weeks

"The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism"
By Jeremy Rifkin
Palgrave Macmillan, $28
Reviewed by CANDACE S. HUGHES

"The Melting World: A Journey Across America's Vanishing Glaciers"
By Christopher White
St. Martin's Press, $26.99
Reviewed by TOM HENRY

"Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age"
By Mary Christina Wood
Cambridge University Press, $45
Reviewed by JAY LETTO

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