{"id":15774,"date":"2016-01-21T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=15774"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:58:28","slug":"15774_dirty-little-secrets-center-for-cooperative-media-coordinates-inquiry-into-nj-s-toxic-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2016\/01\/21\/15774_dirty-little-secrets-center-for-cooperative-media-coordinates-inquiry-into-nj-s-toxic-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Little Secrets: Center for Cooperative Media Coordinates Inquiry into NJ’s Toxic Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hidden toxins — not the obvious Superfund sites, but toxic threats all around us. That’s the subject of Dirty Little Secrets, a collaborative reporting project coordinated by the Center for Cooperative Media<\/a> here at Montclair State, along with the Center for Investigative Reporting<\/a> in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The project, which is ongoing, launched in early December, with stories by WNYC, WHYY, NJTV and NJ Spotlight. According to a recent feature from Amy Gahran at Knight Digital Media Center, there’s no end date for Dirty Little Secrets.<\/div>\n
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WNYC’s data team created a searchable, interactive map<\/a> showing all the known toxic sites in New Jersey, and reporter Sarah Gonzalez found that while 89 percent of New Jerseyans live within one mile of a contaminated site, poorer communities are disproportionately affected.<\/div>\n
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NJTV’s Brenda Flanagan reported on the hidden liabilities of home underground oil tanks — including some nightmare scenarios where the cost of cleaning up oil-contaminated soil\u00a0is more than the value of the house itself. She also looked into why there are so many abandoned gas stations around the state.<\/div>\n
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And Scott Gurian of NJ Spotlight found that industrial sites along New Jersey’s coastline are vulnerable to storm surges.<\/div>\n
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The Dirty Little Secrets project was supported by a grant from the Dodge Foundation. The Center for Cooperative Media is part of the School of Communication and Media.<\/div>\n

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