How can journalism get better at covering climate change? Being a bummer might help

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The simple existence of anthropogenic climate change is treated as a he-said-she-said question than it used to be, and there are dozens of initiatives aimed at doing more and better reporting on how we’re changing the earth. But the continuing challenge is what drew me to the new special issue of Journalism Practice, which is all about the intersection of climate change and journalism and which launched on Friday. There are 17 articles in all, and they’re all un-paywalled and available for anyone to read. Here were a few of the highlights of “Journalism, Climate Change, and Reporting Synergistic Effects of the Anthropocene” for me.

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