{"id":960,"date":"2015-02-05T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2017-08-08T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T04:54:04","slug":"imperiled-aquifers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"Imperiled Aquifers: AP investigation on California TV stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of working with our SF-based environmental reporter <a title=\"Ellen\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KnickmeyerEllen\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Knickmeyer<\/a> on <a title=\"Imperiled Aquifers-bigstory.ap.org\" href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/136c58fa783b4115aef562c478027105\/california-permitted-oilfield-discharge-protected-water\" target=\"_blank\">this investigation<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0dumping into\u00a0protected aquifers in the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/572l1_5lJVE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Packaging such a technical, document-based investigative piece for video was a challenge. But it&#8217;s <a title=\"Lake Co. Pears\" href=\"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/?p=193\" target=\"_blank\">not the first time I&#8217;ve made a farmer cry on tape<\/a> (scroll to 7:40).<\/p>\n<p>The package got great play. My old friend <a title=\"Rudabeh on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC7Rudabeh\" target=\"_blank\">Rudabeh Shahbazi<\/a> re-tracked it <a title=\"Aquifers on KABC\" href=\"http:\/\/abc7.com\/news\/ca-regulators-allowed-oilfield-dumping-in-drinking-water\/507542\/\" target=\"_blank\">for KABC<\/a>, and it led their 6pm newscast.<\/p>\n<p>It played in Fresno, San Diego and on The Weather Channel. But the real victory was seeing it on KTVU-Ch. 2 in Oakland, because way back when, I was an intern there. Can&#8217;t find the video yet, still trying to track down a link&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, this was one of those enterprise packages that had to get done while I also covered <a title=\"Suge Knight arraignment\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vA9k-4_0Mec\" target=\"_blank\">Suge Knight&#8217;s arraignment<\/a>, the <a title=\"LA Co. Public Health presser\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8yhT3lRk2Dg\">measles outbreak<\/a> and <a title=\"Suge Knight arrest\" href=\"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/?p=975\" target=\"_blank\">the usual glut of breaking news<\/a>. Because around here, the grind doesn&#8217;t stop just because you&#8217;re working on a big investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of working with our SF-based environmental reporter Ellen Knickmeyer on this investigation\u00a0of\u00a0dumping into\u00a0protected aquifers in the Central Valley. Packaging such a technical, document-based investigative piece for video was a challenge. But it&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve made a farmer cry on tape (scroll to 7:40). The package got great play. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,5,21,23,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raquelmariadillon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}