#ClimateChange#Journalism#ClimateJournalism#Media#News#Newspapers: "When the Reuters Institute set up the OCJN, we pitched our tent beyond the traditional domains of climate teams. Everyone was welcome. In the past two years, journalists from all parts of the newsroom have accepted our call, both reflecting and expanding the evolving nature of climate journalism.
We do have climate-focused journalists joining our cohorts, from Bloomberg Green managing editor Sharon Chen to Phil Watanabe, an environment reporter at Folha de S. Paulo. But we’ve also had the likes of Taimas Szirniks, transport correspondent at AFP, Giulia Sadelli, political correspondent at Deutsche Welle, and Agatha Gichana, a reporter covering gender at Nation. We’ve had photojournalists, heads of news and political editors, sports reporters and TV presenters. The scope of climate journalism is truly growing beyond its usual silos."
The cartoonist John Kudelda is boycotting the Walkley awards this year because they’re sponsored by fossil fuel company AMPOL and chose not to add a category for “best climate reporting” this year.
And in a fantastic followup to this – Ketan Joshi has done a bit of analysis into the stories that the #Walkey awards choose as winners....
Here's the key bit:
"...from what I can tell – using a somewhat clumsy method of keyword searching – the only award granted to a dedicated climate story was handed out in 2008, to a Four Corners episode about the impact of climate change on sea ice. Fifteen years ago.
There are a range of stories, photographs and book awards granted to coverage of climate-intensified disasters, where it’s unclear whether climate change is central or even mentioned – bushfires and floods, in particular, like the photograph above Ampol’s logo above." https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/08/30/the-walkleys-walkout/