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Why newsrooms are resistant to collaboration when covering climate
In this month’s edition, Kyle Pope, CJR editor, and Jill Geisler, of Loyola University Chicago, discuss the difference between journalism and activism, the lack of collaboration between news outlets on climate change, and training reporters to become newsroom managers. Kyle: I'm interested in a couple of things, springing from a project CJR is leading...
Turning newspapers into climate-change art
Covering Climate Now kicked off its week of expanded coverage with an art exhibit in New York that sought to bring the climate story to the front page of the world's newspapers. The exhibit, called "Flooding the News," was held at the Foley Gallery in Manhattan and featured 40 front pages, all of them treated...
Eric Holthaus v. the climate crisis
“Right now I’m getting ratioed on Twitter,” Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist and climate journalist, says as we sit down for coffee on a late July morning. Holthaus, whose zealous reporting and commentary on the climate crisis has at times made him a polarizing figure, had recently criticized another Twitter user for planning a spur-of-the-moment trip...
How ‘Keysmash’ became the way internet users expressed their emotions
“English spelling can be so inconsistent, so random-seeming, so frustrating that it can make you want to pound out on your keyboard: ‘Asdjfoaasdasdasdasd!’” That’s what dictionary.com posted on a blog discussing some of the words people look up but misspell. The post links to an “All the Words” entry on “asdf,” explaining that it’s a...
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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like...
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