This June, at the G7 summit held in Cornwall, England, journalists had a hot scoop about a bicycle. To commemorate the meeting, President Joe Biden had gifted the host, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a modern, lightweight take on a classic English tourer, hand-made at a bike shop in Philadelphia and emblazoned with the Union Jack. CNN, BBC, and The […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. We’re on the cusp of a major climate event — the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland — and already world leaders are lowering expectations. But it’s essential as journalists that we remember our responsibility to the public and not let politicians and diplomats treat us as stenographers. The […]
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A longstanding challenge for climate coverage is that climate change is so big, so all-encompassing, that journalists sometimes struggle with where to start. That can go double for local journalists, whose scope is necessarily hyperfocused. The climate story threads together megacorporations, heads of state, our forests, the oceans, and even what’s for dinner. For outlets whose […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Activists, scientists, and other members of civil society qualify as newsmakers just as much as government officials and business executives — and we journalists should cover them accordingly. This week has furnished us with a few powerful reminders of that. The climate activist Greta Thunberg, for example, is […]
This story originally appeared in The Nation and is part of Covering Climate Now. The interview with Greta Thunberg was conducted by CCNow partners NBC News, Reuters, and The Nation. Greta Thunberg is “open” to meeting with United States President Joe Biden at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, though the young Swedish […]
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Yesterday, we recorded our interview with Thunberg. On behalf of CCNow partners, colleagues from Reuters, NBC News, and The Nation interviewed Thunberg about COP26, the obstacles to real climate action, and the future of the youth climate movement. Their resulting news stories, as well as video excerpts from the interview, will be available for all […]
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It’s taken too long, but the mainstream media — finally and haltingly — seems to be realizing that the climate crisis is a story that can no longer be ignored. Until a couple years ago, many of the world’s most influential news organizations, especially in the United States, relegated the climate story to the fringe. […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. Join us on October 6 at 4 pm US Eastern Time to watch the first annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, celebrating the best climate reporting of 2020. Far from a typical awards show, this special program will provide a snapshot of the global climate emergency as reported by […]
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Covering Climate Now is excited to announce our next joint coverage week, “Code Red: Countdown to COP26,” October 31 to November 6. This corresponds with the first week of the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, which experts say will go a long way to determining humanity’s climate future. Between now and then, CCNow has a wide […]