In a week when extreme weather disasters reminded us that the climate emergency does not pause for Covid-19, Reuters joined Covering Climate Now on May 19 for a “Talking Shop” webinar to discuss the opportunities and challenges newsrooms face in reporting both crises simultaneously. Panelists included CCNow Executive Director Mark Hertsgaard of The Nation, Gabrielle […]
Photo by John Moore/Getty Images News / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. This post is available for reprint by CCNow partners. Covering Climate Now will interview United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in the lead up to June’s G7 summit. Every CCNow outlet will be invited to cover […]
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With the coronavirus dominating headlines, how can media organizations also do justice to the even bigger story of climate change? Tuesday, May 19, 2020 https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6364388224287322895 Hong Kong: 11:00 PM | London: 4:00 PM | New York: 11:00 AM Covering Climate Now is teaming up with Reuters to co-host a Talking Shop webinar where journalists discuss […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. Climate journalism had a tremendous showing at the Pulitzer Prizes on Monday! Our hearty congratulations to The Washington Post, which was awarded the prize for Explanatory Reporting for its series outlining the dangerous effects a 2 degree Celsius temperature rise will have on the […]
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Last September, we drove a massive increase in climate coverage by collaborating on one week of stories in the lead-up to the UN Climate Action Summit. Since then, our partnership has grown to more than 400 news outlets with a combined audience approaching 2 billion people. From April 19-26, to coincide with the 50th anniversary […]
by Mark Hertsgaard Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. This Climate Beat column is available for republication by CCNow partners, using the standard CCNow tagline. On April 25, CNN broadcast one of the very best pieces of climate journalism ever run by a mainstream US news organization. In “The Road […]
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Our climate solutions week of coverage is behind us, but its key lesson endures: solutions to the climate crisis are out there, and we can begin tackling climate change today. As the coronavirus has reminded us, credible, public-spirited journalism is essential in a time of crisis. We salute each of our partners whose newsrooms stepped up […]
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NBC News announced today that it is joining Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration committed to better coverage of the climate story. MSNBC and Noticias Telemundo, both also part of the NBCUniversal family, also joined Covering Climate Now, which includes more than 400 TV, radio, digital and print news outlets with a combined audience approaching […]
From April 19 to 26, Covering Climate Now is putting on a week of climate solutions coverage to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. During the week, our partners are publishing and broadcasting hundreds of news stories, features, commentaries, interviews, and more to a combined audience approaching 2 billion people. Our partners include some […]
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