Climate Reporting - Al Jazeera, Canadian Press Doing Their Jobs, US Reporting A Downsized Joke
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On the TV side, Fox News "debate" on climate change this summer could be the museum piece for the ages on climate denial. "The Five" is a daily Fox show where four conservatives out-shout an elderly liberal, former Carter Administration official Bob Beckel. They tackled climate change on the day of President Obama's June speech on the topic, and three-fifths of the Five agreed with host Eric Bolling that climate science has been "utterly debunked." Oh, and they took a swipe at Al Gore.
Al Jazeera America launched last month, and in its early days AJAM shows potential for delivering on its promise to take the news more seriously than its established cable competitors. The liberal group Media Matters for America said AJAM's first-day attention to climate change nearly matched what other networks do in an entire year. AJAM has also devoted segments to fracking, tar sands, rising dengue fever in Florida, and a half-hour on western wildfires featuring a spectrum of guests from the Forest Service to the National Wildlife Federation to the libertarian National Center for Policy Alternatives.
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Perhaps that's because the environmental reporter has become an endangered species of sorts as newsrooms have shrunk. That trend continues. Perry Beeman, longtime environment reporter at the Des Moines Register and former President of the Society of Environmental Journalists, left the paper last month for academia. Another Gannett paper, the News-Journal of Wilmington, Delaware, announced 27 layoffs on August 26.
The News-Journal has distinguished itself of late with thorough coverage of climate impacts in America's lowest-lying state. Reporters Jeff Montgomery, Molly Murray, and Dan Garrow were runners up this year for the National Academy of Sciences' communication awards for their series, "Climate change puts coast in crosshairs." Many of us have come to presume that "layoffs" and "environment reporter" were meant to be uttered in the same sentence. But in a brief email, News-Journal editor David Ledford said the paper's climate and environment coverage, and reporter Jeff Montgomery, were surviving "just fine."
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http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2013/09/trends-climate-media-coverage
