{"id":177059,"date":"2022-03-18T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/?p=177059"},"modified":"2024-08-01T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T11:42:21","slug":"adding-climate-journalistic-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samathieson.com\/sa-mathieson\/adding-climate-journalistic-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding climate to the journalistic environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am one of the first cohort of journalists in the Oxford Climate Journalism Network<\/a>, run by Oxford University\u2019s Reuters Institute. This involves taking part in a series of online seminars and discussions with journalists from around the world.<\/p>\n

Our first seminar was by the Reuters Institute\u2019s Wolfgang Blau, former chief operating officer of Cond\u00e9 Nast and co-founder of the network. (He has since delivered a public lecture covering the same ground, which you can read here<\/a>.) Blau pointed out how badly climate change fits with journalistic (and perhaps human attention) values: it\u2019s not new, it\u2019s not local, it\u2019s not simple, it\u2019s not usually personal, it\u2019s a long-term process rather than a specific event and it\u2019s hard to get an exclusive out of it.<\/p>\n

One answer may be through journalism that is not directly about climate change but that wouldn\u2019t exist without it. I have written an article for Computer Weekly about the data and software behind wind power<\/a>, a rapidly-growing industry, where I didn\u2019t use the words \u2018climate change\u2019 although \u2018net zero\u2019 appears a couple of times. There didn\u2019t seem to be any need \u2013 a fast-growing sector with really interesting technology works for Computer Weekly. But the reason wind power has grown rapidly is climate change, and the resulting energy policies of successive UK governments as well as customer demand for clean power.<\/p>\n

Rather than setting up ring-fenced \u2018climate\u2019 journalism, it may make more sense that climate change becomes part of the journalistic environment, something that can be included in or influence any kind of story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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