Media Note: On May 9, six cars derailed south of Greeley, Colorado, and spilled more than 5,000 gallons of oil. While the damage in that case was fortunately limited, the transport of crude by rail is an important emerging story that’s attracting national attention. It’s also one that could tax many smaller news organizations: obscure government agencies, companies that prize secrecy, limited human-interest potential. But since the beginning of June, journalists at Inside Energy have been staking a claim to the crude-by-rail beat. Gabriel Rosenberg, Columbia Journalism Review
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:40:14 +0000