Climate change for journalists 101
Have you ever felt confused by all the differing information about climate change presented in the news? That’s totally normal, since journalists themselves don’t always know how to tackle the problem. Which expert do you listen to? How do you know that an information is credible and can be published? How do you stay away from companies and think tanks that try to foist their agenda on you? And how do you separate objective reporting from advocacy when it’s so easy to talk and write all the time about climate change? Journalists try to do their best as usual, but few of them are equipped with the tools necessary to cover such a crucial and pressing issue.
An article published in the summer issue of the Columbia Journalism Review intends on leading journalists in the right direction and in the same time can be used by the public to learn how to be critical of what they read, see and hear.