• Health Blog

    Real Simple Makes It Real Complicated When It Comes to Eating Seafood

    January 10, 2014 Dear Ms. Harris, I was surprised and disappointed by the section regarding fish in your article How Much Is Too Much in the January, 2014 issue ofReal Simple. While author Sarah Copel...

  • Safety Blog

    Wine Consultant/Former Soap Opera Actor Moonlights as Radiation Expert Apparently the Journalism Apocalypse Has Begun

    December 19, 2013 The Top Information Post Digital News Aggregation, VIA EMAIL Dear Managing Editor, I am writing to address editorial concerns about the alarmist and misleading Top Info Post art...

  • Sustainability Blog

    60 Minutes and the Salmon Story

    It hasnt been a good run for the venerable news magazine 60 Minutes lately. You may have seen recently where a high profile correspondent and her producer were put on leave after botching an equally h...

  • Health Blog

    Rodale’s Journalistic Failures Front and Center

    November 20, 2013 Phat Chiem Deputy Editor Yahoo! News Dear Mr. Chiem, Thank you for your commitment to accuracy and balance in removing the article titled 5 Reasons To Never Eat Shrimp Aga...

  • Sustainability Blog

    Are Yahoo! Serious With This Reporting?

    November 19, 2013 Ryan Wallace Senior Editor Yahoo! Health Dear Mr. Wallace, I am writing to express concern over an article featured on your website titled 5 Reasons To Never Eat Shrimp Agai...

  • Safety Blog

    Journalist or Activist? Dirty Secrets of the Fourth Estate

    If you read MSN this morning while drinking your coffee you might have seen this little piece of muck racking, 4 dirty secrets of the seafood industry. Its got a healthy dose of hyperbole in the title...

  • Health Blog

    Washington Post’s Misguided Fears

    October 16, 2013 Laurie McGinley Health Editor Cameron Barr National Editor The Washington Post Dear Ms. McGinley and Mr. Barr, An article by Darryl Fears this week, Study links warmer water temper...

  • Safety Blog

    ALERT FOR MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA COVERING FOOD SAFETY & THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

    During the Government Shutdown theres been a lot of reporting about food safety. When it comes to seafood, not all of that reporting has been accurate. ...

  • Safety Blog

    Radioactive Reporting

    The old saying If It Bleeds It Leads is designed to be pejorative, yet accurate in its illustration of how pathetic some reporters and bloggers can be in search of the sensational. Oh and I know, beli...

  • Health Blog

    Mercury study is just that not about health or nutrition

    Some media outlets got it right. They looked at the Nature Geoscience, August 2013 study titled Mercury isotope evidence for methylation below the mixed layer in the central North Pacific Ocean and re...

Media Blog

    GG CCTV Screen GrabWhether it’s the tip of a hat for a job well done or a demand for correction keep up with NFI’s latest media work on the Media Blog from NFI's Vice President for Communications Gavin Gibbons.