Covering Climate Now signs on over 170 news outlets

sexta-feira, agosto 30, 2019

MORE THAN 170 NEWS OUTLETS from around the world with a combined audience of hundreds of millions of people have now signed up for Covering Climate Now, a project co-founded by CJR and The Nation aimed at strengthening the media’s focus on the climate crisis.

All outlets have committed to running a week’s worth of climate coverage in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on Sept. 23. At that meeting, the world’s governments will submit plans to meet the Paris Agreement’s pledge to keep global temperature rise “well below” 2 degrees Celsius.

“The need for solid climate coverage has never been greater,” said Kyle Pope, CJR’s editor and publisher. “We’re proud that so many organizations from across the US and around the world have joined with Covering Climate Now to do our duty as journalists—to report this hugely important story.”

Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a single coverage topic. In addition to The Guardian—the lead media partner in Covering Climate Now—CJR and The Nation are joined by major newspapers, magazines, television and radio broadcasters, and global news and photo agencies in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Among the outlets represented are: Bloomberg; CBS News; El País; the Asahi Shimbun; La Repubblica; The Times of India; Getty Images; Agence France-Presse; national public TV broadcasters in Italy, Sweden, and the United States; most of the biggest public radio stations in the US; scholarly journals such as Nature, Science, and the Harvard Business Review; and publications such as Vanity Fair,HuffPost, BuzzFeed News, and The Daily Beast. Covering Climate Now also includes a wide array of local news outlets and non-profit websites reporting from Rhode Island, Nevada, Turkey, Togo, and dozens of places in between.

“Collaboration with like-minded colleagues makes both journalistic and business sense in today’s media environment, and The Nation is happy to encourage such collaboration and proud to share our climate coverage as part of this exciting initiative,” said Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation.

All of the news outlets participating will decide for themselves how many climate stories to run during the September week of coverage, and what those stories say. The only requirement is that the participating outlets make a good faith effort to run as much high-quality climate coverage as they can—and thereby signal to their audiences the paramount importance of the climate story.

Some of the outlets participating in Covering Climate Now will share their climate coverage with one another, though this is by no means obligatory. Many outlets will publish or broadcast only stories they themselves produce. This decision is entirely up to each participating outlet.

A full list of participating outlets follows. For changes or updates, please email editors@cjr.org.

Columbia Journalism Review (Co-founder)
The Nation (Co-founder)
The Guardian (Lead Media Partner)

Wire Services and News & Photo Agencies:

Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Bloomberg
Getty Images

Newspapers:

The (Colorado Springs) Gazette
The Christian Science Monitor
The Daily Hampshire Gazette
DigBoston
The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The National Catholic Reporter
The Oklahoman
The Philadelphia Inquirer & Inquirer.com
The Portland Press Herald (Maine)
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Seattle Times
The (New Jersey) Star-Ledger & NJ.com
La Nacion (Argentina)
The Eyeopener (Ryerson University, Canada)
The Queen’s Journal (Queen’s University, Canada)
The Toronto Star (Canada)
The Varsity (The University of Toronto, Canada)
La Tercera (Chile)
The Hindustan Times (India)
La Repubblica (Italy)
The Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
The Nepali Times (Nepal)
The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Público (Portugal)
The Straits Times (Singapore)
The Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
El País (Spain)
Trouw (The Netherlands)
The i Paper (The United Kingdom)

Television & Multimedia:

CBS News
Democracy Now
KPBS TV & FM (San Diego, Calif.)
PBS NewsHour
The Years Project & Years Of Living Dangerously
WFAA (Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas)
WJCT (Jacksonville, Fla.)
WNET’s Peril and Promise (New York, N.Y.)
News18 (India)
RTÉ’s Brainstorm Project (Ireland)
TG1/RAI (Italy)
TVNZ’s 1 News (New Zealand)
Politically Aweh, TV news show (South Africa)
TV3 & Catalunya Ràdio (Spain)
Swedish Television / SVT (Sweden)

Radio & Podcasts:

Climate One (podcast)
Elemental: Covering Sustainability (regional collaborative of NPR stations in Denver, Colo.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Los Angeles, Calif.)
Global GoalsCast (podcast)
Hudson Mohawk Radio Network (WOOC, WOOS, and WOOA, in Upstate N.Y.)
KALW (San Francisco Bay Area, Calif.)
KPCC (Los Angeles, Calif.)
KQED (San Francisco Bay Area, Calif.)
KUOW (Seattle, Wash.)
Marketplace Tech, by American Public Media
Nevada Public Radio
Science Friday, by WNYC Studios
The Allegheny Front, on WESA (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
WAMU (Washington, DC)
WBEZ (Chicago, Ill.)
WBUR (Boston, Mass.)
WFPL (Louisville, Ky.)
WHYY (Philadelphia, Pa.)
WNYC (New York, N.Y.)
WRAL (Raleigh, N.C.)
WWNO (New Orleans, La.)
The World, by PRI and the BBC (The United Kingdom)

Institutional

Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
Boston University
Climate Matters & Climate Central (George Mason University Center for Climate Communications, and Climate Communications)
Journalist’s Resource (The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, at Harvard University)
Solutions Journalism Network
Yale Climate Change & Health Initiative
Insper (Brazil)
Mount Royal University’s Journalism and Broadcast Media Studies programs (Canada)
blogdroiteuropéen (Europe)
Netzwerk Weitblick (Germany)
The University of Manchester (The United Kingdom)
The Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health (The United Kingdom)