#Climate #Change: #Journalism’s Greatest #Challenge
source: https://wblau.medium.com/climate-change-journalisms-greatest-challenge-2bb59bfb38b8
One climate journalist said to me: “I have the full support from my chief editor. I have even been given a budget increase. My #problem is now the foreign editor who doesn’t give me access to our foreign bureaus when I need them because my stories — supposedly are never as urgent as other breaking news stories — and my other and bigger problem are the news desk editors who don’t give my story a prime time slot or never quite promote it on social #media at the right time of day because they think it won’t perform well”.
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In the most extreme of this behaviour, news organisations need to ask themselves whether this doesn’t amount to a form of editorial #greenwashing itself: To produce climate journalism so you can say you are doing it and so you can point to the URL’s of each published story while never really throwing the full #authority and distribution power of your news organisation’s brand behind it.
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Given the foreseeable vehement conflicts over climate #policy in many countries, newsroom managers would do their staff and their journalism a favour if they now reviewed or updated their editorial codes of conduct to make sure there is at least a shared understanding in their #newsroom, a shared language on what they think the typical indicators of editorial activism are and — more importantly — of what clearly isn’t #activism in covering the accelerating climate #crisis.
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At Agence France #Press, one of the world’s largest news agencies, their Global Chief Editor Sophie Huet is in the process of making sure that their bureaus around the #world include possible climate aspects in every story as naturally as they would already include possible financial angles of a #story.
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