Reporting the Science3 lesson(s)
News & Current Events · Intermediate
Climate & Environmental News
By admin · A working reporter's guide to the climate beat: reporting the science accurately, covering disasters with care, translating studies for readers, telling solutions stories with rigor, and tracking environmental policy from bill to outcome.
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About this course
Climate change touches every desk in the newsroom, and this classroom trains you for the beat. You will learn what the climate beat really involves and how to build a source network; how to cover disasters and extreme events with accuracy under deadline; how to read scientific studies and communicate uncertainty; how to report on responses to the crisis through solutions journalism; how to follow environmental policy from bill to enforcement; and how to make the world's biggest environmental stories matter in your own town. You finish with the source habits, verification routines, and writing discipline of a reporter who can cover climate for decades.
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Solutions, Policy & the Local Angle3 lesson(s)