About

Organized by journalists for journalists, Covering Climate Now works to improve climate coverage worldwide.

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Our Story

Covering Climate Now supports, convenes, and trains journalists and newsrooms to produce rigorous climate coverage that engages audiences.

Co-founded in 2019 by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation magazine in association with the Guardian and WNYC, CCNow invites journalists everywhere to transform how our profession covers the defining story of our time. Unless news outlets around the world dramatically improve and expand their climate coverage, there simply will not be the public awareness and political will needed to tackle the crisis.

With hundreds of partner news outlets from over 60 countries reaching billions of people, CCNow helps journalists produce more informative and appealing coverage of the climate crisis and its potential solutions.

As the climate crisis accelerates and the journalism landscape rapidly evolves, we invite all journalists and newsrooms worldwide — newsletters as well as newspapers, social media as well as television, independent investigative sites as well as a reader-funded non-profits — to join the Covering Climate Now community and help your fellow journalists produce exceptional work that engages audiences, holds power to account, and inspires change.

To learn more about the establishment of CCNow, see these pieces by our co-founders, Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope: “A New Beginning for Climate” and “The Media Are Complacent While the World Burns.” For media inquiries and to see news coverage about CCNow, visit our media page. Check out our FAQs here, and donate to support CCNow’s mission.

On PBS Newshour, Judy Woodruff covers the global youth climate movement in September 2019.

Our Team

Amanda Braitman

ASSOCIATE AUDIENCE EDITOR

David Dickson

TV Engagement Coordinator

Elena González

LOCAL TELEVISION ENGAGEMENT MANAGER

Mark Hertsgaard

CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Anna Hiatt

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Natalie Li

PROJECT COORDINATOR

Mekdela Maskal

ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR

Andrew McCormick

DEPUTY DIRECTOR

Kyle Pope

Co-founder & Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives

Theresa Riley

AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT EDITOR

Santiago Sáez

Director of Training

Lili Zay

Partnership Engagement Coordinator

Our Steering Committee

Branko Brkic

Founder and Editor in Chief of Daily Maverick

Michael Cavallo

President of the Fund for Constitutional Government

Ian Gary

Executive Director of the Fund for Constitutional Government

Mark Hertsgaard

Executive Director at Covering Climate Now

Sophie Huet

Global Editor in Chief of Agence France-Presse

Dianna Hunt

Senior Editor at Indian Country Today

Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson

Climate Director at Solutions Journalism Network

Richard Kim

Editor in Chief of THE CITY

Al Ortiz

Former Executive Producer of CBS Evening News

Kyle Pope

Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at CCNow

Jane Spencer

Deputy Editor and Head of Strategy at Guardian US

Giles Trendle

Managing Director of Al Jazeera English

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Publisher and Editorial Director of The Nation

Amy Westervelt

Founder and Executive Producer of Critical Frequency

Justin Worland

Senior Correspondent, TIME

Our Funders

CCNow has been supported by generous grants from numerous foundations and individual philanthropists. Current funders include: Actions@EBMF, Green South Foundation, Michaux Family Foundation, Park Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Waverley Street Foundation, and WOKA Foundation. CCNow’s fiscal sponsor is the Washington, DC–based 501c3 The Fund for Constitutional Government.

We are seeking additional funding to sustain the collaboration. Please contact CCNow executive director Mark Hertsgaard at mark@coveringclimatenow.org for more information about donating. To send a donation to CCNow via mail, please contact editors@coveringclimatenow.org.

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