Can journalists be citizen scientists? That was the heart of the piece we did about toxins emissions close to schools from a report by USA Today. For the news investigation, USA Today reporter Blake Morrison compiled existing information from the US Environmental Protection Agency and made correlations between school proximities and the sources of pollution. The story resonated here in the Bay Area because a number of schools ranked in the top percentile for pollution exposure according to his information, specifically schools in west Berkeley. (Youth Radio, our partner for this story, covered pollution in west Berkeley in April 2006.)