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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By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope This story was originally co-published by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation as part of CCNow. The coronavirus pandemic is a tragic reminder of just how essential fact-based, outspoken journalism is, especially in times of crisis. Without it, people die. In China, the lack of an independent press made […]
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This week, close to 100 fellow journalists “talked shop” at a Covering Climate Now webinar, asking questions, brainstorming ideas and making new connections as we adjust to reporting on the climate crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic. Mark Hertsgaard, executive director of CCNow and environment correspondent for The Nation, led the discussion, with panelists: Kyle Pope, […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. An absent dog does not bark, says an African proverb. The US press has hardly been absent during the coronavirus outbreak; many outlets have run stories about little else. But the focus on the virus has distracted the press from its watchdog function on […]
Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter in your inbox. To our partners: We’re changing the way CCNow does content sharing. Especially with so many newsrooms stretched to the max with coronavirus coverage, we want to make it easy for partners to share and republish more climate change stories, more often, at no cost. […]