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What will you do to honor Earth Day's 40th Anniversary?

Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous response at the grassroots level... It organized itself.Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth...
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Community Journalism 101: What is a disclosure?

Disclosure is a method by which journalists can make their work more honest and trustworthy, by revealing possible conflicts of interest...
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Community Journalism 101: What is a conflict of interest?

For a journalist, a conflict of interest occurs when he has a connection to the story subject or issue that might influence how he writes the story...
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Web-powered grassroots activists take on the killing fields of New Orleans

For a time in post-Katrina New Orleans there was a lull in the killing. The few residents able to return lived in a small strip of the city they...
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