Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter When it comes to disinformation, from elections to climate, arguably no megaphone has been louder and more influential than FOX, owned by Rupert Murdoch. This week it was revealed that FOX hosts, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, knowingly spread lies about the 2020 US presidential […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Jimmy Carter’s family has announced that the 98-year-old former US president has entered hospice care. Carter leaves behind a poignant reminder of two central facts about today’s climate emergency: its solutions have been around for decades, and it’s important to elect leaders who will implement them. Jimmy Carter […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Antarctica’s “doomsday glacier” is melting faster. Climate activists are shifting tactics. The president of the World Bank is resigning after questioning climate science. The climate story is evolving quickly, in many directions, as the crisis accelerates. Which makes strong news coverage all the more important so that the […]
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barnard_Mountain_Katahdin_Woods_and_Waters.jpg EACH MONTH, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with three journalists from Maine Public: deputy news director Susan Sharon, news producer Patty Wight, and Bangor correspondent Nicole Ogrysko. Along with the rest of the […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter “The climate crisis doesn’t care if your state is red or blue. It is an existential threat,” President Joe Biden said on Tuesday as he used his State of the Union address to tout the Inflation Reduction Act. Biden teased Republican lawmakers for asking his administration to fund […]
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Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with the Washington Post’s climate and environment editor Zachary Goldfarb and deputy climate and environment editor Juliet Eilperin. Goldfarb and Eilperin have recently overseen significant growth to […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter As news coverage of climate change continues to increase and improve globally, we’re proud to invite entries for the third annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. To spotlight the accelerating climate emergency and the urgency of action, the 2023 awards will include new honors for exemplary climate solutions […]
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Press Contact: Colby Kelly, colby@coveringclimatenow.org Journalists throughout the world are invited to submit their work for the 2023 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, presented with the Columbia Journalism Review. Entries should be made through the awards submission page and will be accepted through March 15, 2023. Winners will be announced in late spring. Covering Climate […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter Solutions reporting, done right, is essential to good climate journalism. More and more people recognize that human-caused climate change is a problem. Now, they need to understand that there are solutions — many solutions, in fact. News organizations can help their audiences, and themselves, if they bear in mind […]
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