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  • Flint Offers Lessons on How Citizen Collaboration Can Hold Governments Accountable

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    Guest Contributor  //  On the Beat  //  April 21, 2016  //  By Louise Lief
    flint water crisis

    The original version of this article, by Louise Lief, appeared on The Huffington Post.

    A couple of weeks ago, the task force Michigan governor Rick Snyder appointed to investigate Flint’s now infamous water crisis issued its long-awaited report.

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  • Science, Meet Journalism. You Two Should Talk.

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    January 22, 2015  //  By Louise Lief
    Neil

    When I began my term as a public policy scholar at the Wilson Center last year working on the project “Science and the Media,” I ran into a journalist colleague I hadn’t seen in years. When he heard what I was doing, he said in astonishment, “Science? How did you get interested in that?”

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  • How Does the Media – and Public – Learn Environmental Science? Help Us Find Out

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    From the Wilson Center  //  On the Beat  //  April 16, 2014  //  By Louise Lief
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    Years ago, when I was a diplomatic correspondent at a large national magazine, if I encountered what I thought of as “science stuff,” I sent it to the science desk. I was busy covering foreign policy, wars, and ethnic and religious conflicts – not science. It was only when I took a new job focused on educating the U.S. media on a wide range of international issues that I began to discover the rich world I had overlooked, and see new links and connections.

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