America’s three mainstream television networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—broadcast tens of thousands of news stories each year. But in 2019, only 0.7 percent of those stories addressed climate change, according to a new report by the left-of-center media watchdog group Media Matters. In other words, less than 1 out of every 100 network news stories talked […]
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The Climate Beat On October 30, 1975, the New York Daily News published one of the great headlines of all time: “Ford To City: Drop Dead.” US president Gerald Ford had just announced that the federal government would refuse to bail out New York if the city government went bankrupt. Ford later said that the headline and […]
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Photo by Sjo/iStock / Getty Images The most exciting place for a climate journalist right now has to be the business beat. Investors face growing pressure to stop funding the fossil-fuel industry. Climate activists have been demanding such divestment for years, but now the calls are coming from the heights of the financial community. It’s […]
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The Climate Beat Photo by gajendra bhati/iStock / Getty Images The Climate Beat Scorching temperatures are again forecast in Australia over the coming days, even as the country struggles to recover from some of the worst bushfires in its history. The impending heat wave is expected to spark more blazes, as two years of withering drought […]
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Photo by kieferpix/iStock / Getty Images Some great news on the climate coverage front: Two Covering Climate Now partners—the global news agency Bloomberg and the muckraking podcast Drilled—have announced major expansions of their climate commitments. So has National Public Radio, which is not a CCNow partner, though a number of NPR programs and local member stations […]
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Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images News / Getty Images As his Australian homeland incinerates before the world’s eyes, will Rupert Murdoch finally end the climate denialism his media empire has long fed audiences in Australia, Great Britain and the United States? Murdoch’s newspapers and television networks have been getting the climate story consistently, outspokenly wrong […]
Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News / Getty Images In December, we wrote in The Climate Beat about the urgency of the business side of the climate story, which indeed continues to gain speed and visibility. This week alone saw news that BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management firm, has announced it will shun fossil […]
Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images News / Getty Images Big news: Covering Climate Now is thrilled to welcome the Reuters news agency to the collaboration. Reuters publishes 2.2 million news stories a year in nine languages and distributes 1,600 photos and 200 videos a day, serving thousands of newsrooms throughout the world. Reuters is the […]
Photo by Kanoke_46/iStock / Getty Images “Our leaders are not behaving as if we were in an emergency,” Greta Thunberg told the United Nations climate conference in Madrid on Wednesday, hours after the Swedish teenager was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. “In an emergency, you change your behavior.” Thunberg’s words ring true not […]