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US journalist Mark Hertsgaard said: “The main thing is to play the story as big as the story is.”

Cable news coverage of the recent congressional negotiations over the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill and reconciliation package has missed an important focus. Instead of covering it as a climate story -- as some networks briefly did in the wake of Hurricane Ida -- cable news shows have focused on the internecine fighting among the ostensibly different ideological wings of the Democratic Party.  Specifically, networks have spotlighted the power of two Democrats in the negotiation p...

Judges described “The Great Climate Migration” as “breathtaking in its ambition and scope” and “impossible to ignore.”

It’s still a work in progress, but the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards point the way.

Senator Joe Manchin won't quit fossil fuels, is going to neuter the reconciliation bill, and the whole planet is going to pay the price.

The Cop26 climate summit will be an opportunity to put fossil fuel companies on trial through the court of public opinion.

"The US surely holds a responsibility to inform its public of the ongoing threat from climate change": Sangeeta Unnikrishnan analyses the coverage of climate change in the US media.

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We asked the world’s press to commit to treating climate change as the emergency that scientists say it is. Their response was dispiriting

Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP (Getty Images) TV newsman Bill Moyers likes to tell the story of how Edward R. Murrow, the preeminent U.S. broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what became Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939. Murrow’s bosses at CBS News had other priorities; they ordered Murrow’s reporters to cover dance competitions in Hamburg, Paris, and London, explaining that Americans needed some happy news. Murrow wouldn’t do it. “It’ll probably get us fired,” he t...