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 […]
Photo by Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images News / Getty Images The Climate Beat Welcome to the second issue of The Climate Beat, the weekly newsletter of Covering Climate Now. Special greetings to the 390-plus news outlets worldwide that have formally signed on to this collaboration; we’re grateful to be working with you. We also invite our […]
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images News / Getty Images The Climate Beat Welcome to the first issue of The Climate Beat, a weekly newsletter from Covering Climate Now. Our collaboration now includes more than 390 news outlets from across the United States and around the world with a combined audience well over 1 billion people. […]
The Climate Beat SOME GOOD NEWS, for a change, about climate change: When hundreds of newsrooms focus their attention on the climate crisis, all at the same time, the public conversation about the problem gets better: more prominent, more informative, more urgent. In September, 323 news outlets from across the United States and around the […]
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By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope Could it be that the press, especially the US press, is finally waking up to the climate story? It’s been 30 years since Bill McKibben rang the warning bells about the threat of man-made climate change—first in a piece in The New Yorker, and then in his book, The End of […]
The following is an abridged version of remarks by TV newsman Bill Moyers, as prepared for delivery at the Covering Climate Now conference co-sponsored by The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review on April 30, 2019. I have been asked to bring this gathering to a close by summing up how we can do better at covering […]