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How is climate change coverage changing? A conversation with Emily Atkin, Emily Holden and John Sutter

Reliable Sources

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3.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What are the functions of climate journalism? With polarization preventing consensus, where do reporters meet their audience? John Sutter, Emily Atkin and Emily Holden share insights about covering the climate crisis in a roundtable discussion. Atkin, who writes the HEATED newsletter, says she is not preaching to the choir, she is "teaching the choir how to sing." Holden talks about her new nonprofit outlet Floodlight and the value of newsroom collaboration. Sutter, a filmmaker and CNN climate analyst, describes how climate coverage has evolves and shares his hopes for the first installment of his documentary series "Baseline." 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

It is one of the biggest stories of our lifetimes.

0:06.8

So how is coverage of climate change changing?

0:11.2

What are reporters and producers doing differently to try to make sure this story gets adequate

0:17.7

attention?

0:19.5

Those are some of the questions for this week's Reliable Sources podcast.

0:23.7

So let's cue the music.

0:25.9

I'm Brian Stelter and this weekly podcast edition of Reliable is our chance to go more

0:30.9

in depth, talking about how the news is made and how it affects your sense of the world

0:38.4

around you.

0:40.8

Climate change, of course, is a hugely complicated story.

0:45.1

The climate crisis is a politics story.

0:47.4

It's a business story.

0:48.4

It's a health and technology story.

0:50.8

It is all-encompassing.

0:53.4

And it demands our attention daily, but it takes place on a time horizon that's hard

0:59.1

to even fathom.

1:01.4

So we wanted to bring together three reporters who come at this in some ways from different

1:06.4

directions, but who know each other and can share their experiences on this incredibly

1:12.9

important beat.

1:14.1

So joining me now to share insight into how to cover the climate crisis and how that

1:18.7

coverage has changed over time, Emily Holden, who recently launched flood light, a non-profit

1:24.6

environmental news collaborative.

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