Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Hostage situation in Hillary Clinton’s New Hampshire campaign office
CNN has the latest. UPDATE: Just heard on WMUR that the man inside is demanding to speak to Clinton. UPDATE: Two hostages have been released, and according to WMUR, that’s everyone — apparently only the armed man himself remains inside. UPDATE: CNN is reporting that two hostages remain in the building UPDATE: The hostage taker […]
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Robert Kennedy Jr. …
… has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Wonder how Clinton feels about Cape Wind?
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New briefing finds improvement but new challenges for climate reporting
A short new briefing (PDF) from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) says that media coverage of climate change has improved, but still shows several flaws: • There are many criticisms of how the media has covered climate change to date, but many signs of improvement too. For journalists new to the topic, […]
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A multi-million dollar ad campaign tries to convince Americans that coal still rules
Today’s Progress Report from CAP has a great rundown on the clean coal industry and the presidential debates. I’ve put the whole thing under the fold. Read it and weep: Viewers tuning into Wednesday’s CNN/YouTube Republican debate probably saw commercials for "clean coal." They may have also seen an ad for the debate in that […]