The Media and the Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity: Reporting in a Troubled Age
With Jacki Swearingen '73
After a year of fires ripping through Los Angeles neighborhoods and the boreal forests of Canada, after historic floods in places such as Texas and Pakistan, the ravages of climate change loom larger each day in our individual and collective lives. Reporting on the causes of rising temperatures and droughts along with biodiversity loss, as well as the resulting disasters, has become an increasingly important task for journalists around the world. Yet these journalists now must file their stories about the current administration’s assault on renewable energy, about global deforestation, and about aggressive mining in the oceans and remaining wildernesses just as today’s media landscape is shifting to digital modes. How can journalists best meet the challenge of alerting us to the threats to the Earth and the policies that endanger it or offer hope of protection?
Join us October 30 at 12:00 pm for a ClassACT HR’73 discussion led by Jacki Swearingen ‘73 about doing environmental journalism at a time when the press itself is under threat.
