Topic: Global Warming

Culture Contributes to Perceptions of Climate Change
A comparison between the United States and Germany reveals insights about why journalists in each country report about this issue in different ways.
By Hans von Storch and Werner Krauss

Trying to Achieve Balance Against Great Odds
With the United States’s opposition to Kyoto so strong, a Canadian journalist finds little pressure from editors to include that perspective in his stories.
By Jacques A. Rivard

Knowing Uncertainty for What It Is
In reporting on the science of global warming, journalists contend with powerful, well-funded forces using strategies created by tobacco companies.
By David Michaels

Disinformation, Financial Pressures, and Misplaced Balance
A reporter describes the systemic forces that work against the story of climate change being accurately told.
By Ross Gelbspan

Weight-of-Evidence Reporting: What Is It? Why Use It?
Journalists ‘find out where the bulk of evidence and expert thought lies on the truth continuum and then communicate that to audiences.’
By Sharon Dunwoody

Global Warming: What’s Known vs. What’s Told
‘Americans could be forgiven for not knowing how uncontroversial this issue is among the vast majority of scientists.’
By Sandy Tolan and Alexandra Berzon

Accepting Global Warming as Fact
‘It helps that the German media is less strict about the division between editorials and news than the news media in the United States.’
By Markus Becker

‘Early Signs’: A Journalism Class Project at Berkeley
By Sandy Tolan

How Do We Cover Penguins and Politics of Denial?
Bill Moyers suggests a new approach to conveying reporting about global warming.
By Bill Moyers

Context and Controversy: Global Warming Coverage
‘… it is heartening to know that the simple inclusion of scientific context might help mitigate the readers’ level of uncertainty.’
By Jessica Durfee and Julia Corbett

Observing Those Who Observe
A journalist travels to the ends of the earth and reports from ‘distant, inaccessible places [that] have a grip on the popular imagination ….’
By Daniel Grossman