
Center for Investigative Reporting For FRONTLINE/World, Mark Schapiro and Andres Cediel take us through the lunacy of the last day at the climate change summit in Copenhagen: "The media began roaming in packs. We didn't always know whom we were trying to capture; we just knew we didn't want to miss it." Watch the video blog.
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Now that the heads of state were in the building -- Jiabao, Obama, Lula, Chavez -- scheduled events were not just "subject to change," they seemed designed to deceive, sending journalists in one direction as VIPs headed in another. The media began roaming in packs. We didn't always know whom we were...

Center for Investigative Reporting Do you have questions about Obama's visit to the climate change summit in Copenhagen? Ask our correspondent Mark Schapiro via web-cam for FRONTLINE/World. http://bit.ly/5OE9F4
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Whatever your concerns are about climate change and wherever you live in the world, we'd love to hear from you. For the next 10 days we have a team from FRONTLINE/World covering the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. ...

Center for Investigative Reporting Does saving trees = reducing emissions? Why are "reduced deforestation projects" (REDD) such a hot topic in Copenhagen? What does that mean, anyway? On The Muckraker blog ...
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Forests are a hot topic in the UN’s climate change negotiations in Copenhagen this week. Many experts are pointing to reduced deforestation projects (known as REDD projects) as an economically cheap way to help developed countries offset CO2 emissions, while preserving forests in developing nations.

Center for Investigative Reporting As world leaders in Copenhagen argue about incentives for stopping deforestation, indigenous leaders say they should be in charge of protecting the forests. Traditional knowledge has maintained biodiversity for centuries. FRONTLINE/World's Andres Cediel blogs for Carbon Watch.
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According to The World Bank, 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihood. If the forests perish, so do they. This fundamental principle has been built into their culture, which is why the most preserved forests on earth are on indigenous lands.

Center for Investigative Reporting Who owns the world's forests? CIR's Mark Schapiro blogs about negotiations in Copenhagen over the stewardship of carbon-capturing trees. Schapiro's reporting is for Carbon Watch, a joint project between CIR and PBS FRONTLINE/World Global Storytellers.
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In the new economy created by global warming, forests are becoming a valuable commodity. Promising not to cut them down is one of the most popular ways companies would like to offset emissions. Mark Schapiro follows the trail of one of those offset projects deep into Brazil's Atlantic Forest.

Center for Investigative Reporting Send your video comments and questions about the Copenhagen climate change summit to CIR's Mark Schapiro via FRONTLINE/World's web-cam messaging tool.
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Whatever your concerns are about climate change and wherever you live in the world, we'd love to hear from you. For the next 10 days we have a team from FRONTLINE/World covering the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. ...

Center for Investigative Reporting Senior correspondent Mark Schapiro touched down in Copenhagen this week. He'll be blogging from the climate change summit for Carbon Watch, a joint project by CIR and FRONTLINE/World. Stay tuned for more.
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It was at 33,000 feet, on route from Paris, when I had my first welcome to the climate change talks in Copenhagen. We’d reached our cruising altitude and the captain of the Air France flight came on the ...

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Lance Williams digs into how corporate farmer Stewart Resnick influenced the Delta dispute with the help of U.S. Sen Dianne Feinstein. New story from California Watch.
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When Stewart Resnick needed help in the Delta, he turned to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a frequent recipient of his campaign contributions. Resnick got what he wanted.

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Does America make its enemies disappear? CIR correspondent Petra Bartosiewicz reports for Harper's on the mysterious disappearance—and reappearance—of a suspected Al Qaeda operative. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who vanished from Karachi in 2003 with her three children, was found wandering the streets in ...Afghanistan in 2008. Bartosiewicz's reporting was supported in part by CIR's H.D. Lloyd Investigative Fund. http://www.centerforinvestigativereporti ng.org/projects/hdlloydfund
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In May 2009, Petra Bartosiewicz received the first H.D. Lloyd Investigative Fund grant for her report on the case of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who vanished from her hometown of Karachi in 2003 along with her three children. ...

Center for Investigative Reporting Today, Obama addresses the nation with a new plan for ending the war in Afghanistan. A recent FRONTLINE/World iWitness interview with journalist Elizabeth Rubin—who was embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley—sheds some light on the realities that soldiers face on the ground. On the Muckraker blog: http://bit.ly/7g4A65
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This raw, never-before-seen footage from Afghanistan offers an unflinching look at how tough on the ground the war has become and why military strategy for success there is so divided.

Center for Investigative Reporting California Watch's Louis Freedberg will be discussing the new story on California class sizes on KQED's Forum today at 10 a.m. http://bit.ly/BmJP9
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KQED's live call-in program presents wide-ranging discussions of local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.

Center for Investigative Reporting California Watch story also on KQED's "The California Report": As class sizes begin to rise in CA, teachers worry that kids will get left behind.
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Center for Investigative Reporting Check out the piece that KGO ABC 7 aired last night about our California Watch story on class sizes.
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A new survey shows how the economic crisis is having a serious impact on California schools and class sizes.

Center for Investigative Reporting New story from California Watch: RISING CLASS SIZES: How a $22 billion reform effort lost momentum. California teachers speak out in video interviews. An interactive graphic compares California class sizes to other states.
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Most of California's largest school districts are increasing class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, eroding the most expensive education reform in the state's history.

Center for Investigative Reporting California Watch held up as an interesting new model for marketing content to news organizations. Check out the Nieman Journalism Lab post today.
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