In recent days, the journalism world has been paying tribute to Bill Moyers, and rightly so. Bill died last Thursday, June 26, at the age of 91. Obituaries and tributes have cited his work as the White House press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s and his subsequent decades of TV journalism at […]
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For years, most TV newscasts have neglected to make the climate connection with the kind of extreme heat blasting much of North America this week. In the summer of 2024, for example, when record high temperatures brutalized outdoor workers, withered crops, and worsened hurricanes, only 12% of US national TV news segments mentioned climate change, […]
Welcome to Locally Sourced, a biweekly Covering Climate Now newsletter for journalists working to localize the climate story. Share this newsletter with colleagues and journalism students interested in localizing the climate story. Story Spark: Air Conditioning As heat waves across the world become more frequent and intense, air conditioning (AC) is no longer a luxury, […]
Today’s wars unleash horrors on the ground but also on the climate. On the ground, “more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023” in Gaza alone, UNICEF lamented last month. In Ukraine, more than 42,000 civilians have been killed or wounded, the UN Human Rights Commission reported. Countless more people are threatened […]
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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were murdered three years ago this month during a reporting trip for the book Phillips was writing, How To Save The Amazon. Jonathan Watts, Phillips’s colleague at The Guardian, and others who knew him have honored his memory by finishing his book about the vast South American rainforest vital to […]
Welcome to Locally Sourced, a biweekly Covering Climate Now newsletter for journalists working to localize the climate story. Share this newsletter with colleagues and journalism students interested in localizing the climate story. Story Spark: Heat Action Plans Extreme heat is responsible for more deaths than any other weather event — killing more people most years […]
Writing in The New York Times on May 28, journalist Masha Gessen recalled feeling “shocked many times” while “living in and reporting on Russia when Vladimir Putin took and consolidated power”. But as one outrage followed another and another ad infinitum, “the state of shock would last a day or a week or a month, […]
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