Six climate freelancers seeking support base of 800 subscribers
Six self-described “seasoned freelance journalists” with a combined 90 years of relevant reporting experience are looking to online crowd-sourcing to fund their climate and environmental coverage. They...
View ArticleStrange bedfellows … and fear of broad impacts of Mann/UVa court ruling
Pitting the interests of academic freedom against transparency, media access, and freedom of information, a high-profile case before the Virginia Supreme Court involving climate scientist Michael Mann...
View ArticleAdvising and fact-checking for Showtime’s ‘Years’
Heidi Cullen, chief climatologist for Climate Central in Princeton, N.J., was one of two science advisers for the new Showtime series “Years of Living Dangerously,” set to air starting in mid-April...
View ArticleWhen the media met the polar vortex
2014 was the year a polar vortex came to town, wreaking wintery havoc for months on end. Reporters were quickly on its tail. “Trapped in a ‘polar vortex’: Midwest gripped by arctic cold” warned CBS...
View ArticleSomber reporting on bleak IPCC study
“The world has never been spoken to quite this way.” It’s the opening sentence NBC News anchor Brian Williams used in kicking-off his top-ranked prime-time evening news show on March 31. “Bleak” is the...
View ArticleRisk, uncertainty, climate change, and March madness
Over the past several weeks, Americans from states red and blue, from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, and from a variety of livelihoods and professions spent countless hours in complex...
View ArticleThe journal that gave in to climate deniers’ intimidation
In February 2013, the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a peer-reviewed paper which found that people who reject climate science are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. Predictably...
View ArticleData journalism: Do the numbers add up to climate action?
For those trying to communicate climate data, the public’s digital newsfeeds are a challenging arena. The story of tiny changes at thousands of sample sites all over the world probably moving mostly in...
View ArticleTips on communicating with news media
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, DECEMBER 15, 2014 – The amazing thing about the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is the number of things — not to mention the number of people — one...
View ArticleAll-out media campaign: The Guardian goes activist
Six years ago, The Guardian newspaper, based in the U.K., launched its “10:10” campaign, an advocacy program with news content aimed at getting organizations and businesses of all kinds to reduce...
View ArticleTips on communicating with news media
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, DECEMBER 15, 2014 – The amazing thing about the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is the number of things — not to mention the number of people — one...
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