Journalist’s Trade

Power, passion and accountability are key ingredients of environment stories.

This is the kind of story that ‘many of us entered journalism to do.’

Reporters uncover ‘a world of racism, sexism and questionable conduct.’

By understanding how and why people perceive risks, reporters and editors can cover risk-related issues with more caution and balance.

What follows is a basic list of risk perception factors. (They are culled from 20 years of research and are reviewed for this article by Paul Slovic.) Often, several of…

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What right do the public and journalists have to see data about children’s health and the environment?