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That'll be up at the front of the newspaper. daniela, environmental reporter at brazil's valor economico — i suppose, what do you make of our discussion so far? are these discussions between journalists that you've been hearing so far here, are they similar to the ones you're having in brazil? yes. first of all, thanks for having me here. most welcome. i yeah, was listening to you all, and they are all very similar things. so for instance, i'm been covering these issues in valor since 2008, so for 13 years. and the first time i went to interview a climatologist in brazil, he said, "why are y...

In brazil because, of course, there it's very highly politcised as an issue because of the policies of mr bolsonaro. and i wonder if that means being a journalist in brazil, it also means you feel you're an activist too, in a sense? so more and more young people, more and more people are interested in climate issues in brazil and in the amazon. i'm a journalist — i think activists are a different kind of, let's say, animal. i'm not an ngo journalist — if i was, i would be an activist also. but of course, this is our huge challenge in the world. so yeah, i think the environment and climate,...

Of science, and some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs consist of overthrowing earlier certainties of other scientists. so i agree, and many scientists say to me that they really struggle with journalists wanting definitive answers from them. going back to the elephant in the room, at least in many newsrooms, the activism question — my personal view is thatjournalists should not resort to activism and there's no need for it. but we need to give the topic the visibility it deserves in the public interest. what is more difficult to answer is, what is activism? a lot of activism i've see...

Certainly from the people running these organisations — tom, what about the audience appetite for stories, the audience appetite? how are they feeling about reading all this stuff? well, i don't know. there's certainly a... without using numbers to check, i feel my instinct is there is a strong appetite for all angles on it — as in, there's still a big niche for people who want to write the contrarian stuff, saying, you know, you'll get huge audiences if you write stuff saying it's not a problem. you'll also get huge audiences. if you write that we're all definitely doomed and will die the...

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