The media need to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid
Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
As founders of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration formed to break the “climate silence” that long prevailed in the media, we’ve been working to help our colleagues throughout the news business and amp up their coverage of the climate story.
In… the past four years, we’ve seen encouraging successes: in the US, major outlets including the Washington Post now treat the climate crisis as a subject to cover every day and not solely as a weather story... Dramatic changes in climate have made increased news coverage of extreme weather unavoidable. But explaining the climate connection to extreme weather… is where news coverage needs to end up.
As journalists, we have to do better. The broad, general public needs to understand what is happening, why it matters, and, above all, that they can fix it – for example, by voting,Upcoming event: September 21, 2023 - September 22, 2023
- Climate Changes Everything Agenda and Speakers
- 2023 Covering Climate Now Awards
- Solutions Journalism Network Climate Beacon Newsrooms
About the Event
Hosted by Covering Climate Now, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, the Guardian, and Solutions Journalism Network.
Join leading journalists from around the world on September 21 and 22 in New York for an unprecedented conversation about how to cover a world on fire.
Through panels, workshops, and more, we aim to challenge colleagues in newsrooms around the world to tackle the climate story with more urgency, depth, and creativity than ever before. Speakers will include reporters, editors, and news executives from Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, CBS News, Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism, France Télévisions, the Guardian, South Florida’s NBC 6, NowThis, Telemundo, TIME, The Times of India, and The Weather Channel, among many other outlet
