Columbia journalism review: covering climate now
Global warming is the great crisis of our time, and our news media is failing to meet that challenge. Coverage has been historically poor, and as the global protector of journalistic ethics, the Columbia Journalism Review needed to act.
Covering Climate Now is a global alliance of over 440 news outlets and journalists, from 47 countries, united in their push to increase climate coverage to a level that reflects the gravity of the problem that we all face.
We invited media outlets to join our alliance by sending them weather-damaged newspapers, representing future climate change destruction based on UN data.
We created typographic posters to promote the Covering Climate Now launch event, as well as a publication that educated journalists about how to cover the climate crisis. In one coordinated week, over 20,000 articles and hundreds of hours of climate coverage reached an audience of more than 1.4 billion people. Covering Climate Now led to more climate change coverage in one week, than in the past 10 years combined.
