Covering Climate Now: 250+ news outlets pledge a week's worth of focused climate crisis coverage

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🗓️ 13 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Kyle Pope, the editor of Columbia Journalism Review, tells Brian Stelter about the Covering Climate Now coalition, which CJR is spearheading with The Nation. Pope says that about 250 news outlets around the world have committed to a week's worth of focused climate change coverage in the run-up to the UN Climate Action Summit on September 23. He says it "could end up being the most extensive effort ever to sort of organize the world's press around a single topic." Pope and Stelter discuss strides made in the news media in tackling the topic; the critical role of local meteorologists; and a "generational divide in the way people consume this news."To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Covering climate now.
0:03.0	Climate Now.
0:05.0	That is what well over 200 news outlets around the world are committing to do
0:10.0	in the walk-up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit.
0:13.4	And this is supposed to just be the beginning.
0:17.0	I'm Brian Stelter and this is the Reliable Sources Podcast,
0:19.8	our weekly chance to go more in depth with media leaders and newsmakers talking about
0:23.8	how the news gets made and how all of us can help make it better. I'm sure you've
0:28.8	thought about climate coverage, about when the climate crisis is covered on television, when it is not,
0:35.6	when it makes the front page, when it does not.
0:38.3	This has been an ongoing issue within the media world for many years now. I'm seeing a lot of change frankly a lot of
0:45.6	improvement in the volume and in the tone around coverage of this crucial issue.
0:53.4	The Columbia Journalism Review is also trying to lead more of these improvements.
0:59.2	The magazine has brought together something called The Covering Climate Now Coalition, led by
1:04.7	CJR and the nation with the Guardian as the lead media partner.
1:08.7	This is something you're going to be hearing more about in the days to come.
1:11.3	So let's talk about it with Kyle Pope. He's the editor and
1:13.9	publisher of CJR and he's joining me now. Kyle covering climate now. What is
1:18.2	this coalition? So what it is is our effort to get media organizations from around the world to just do more
1:28.0	and do better when it comes to climate coverage.
1:31.0	Basically, this started because we think that what's happening with the climate is a massive story.
1:38.0	It's a great story. It's a great journalistic endeavor.
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