journalism
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Editors’ picks: Our favorite Fix stories of 2020
Fix staffers share their favorite stories from a year no one will soon forget.
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Interested in the Grist fellowship? You now have an extra week to apply!
Early-career journalists, now's your chance to hop on Team Grist. The new deadline to apply is January 5.
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These scientists studied journalists covering science. Whoa, meta.
Media coverage of the last IPCC report was pretty inconsistent. (And what's even happening with Twitter?)
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Climate change got even less media coverage than last year
Wait a minute, aren't liberals supposed to control the media? Well they're not doing their jobs, then, because climate change has been sliding slowly off the radar at major newspapers and magazines. That graph above shows coverage on a steady down slope since 2007, with a bump in 2009 because it's hard to slaver about "Climategate" without mentioning climate change.
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Here’s your holiday reading!
It is getting so close to that magical week between Christmas and New Year's where offices are either closed or abandoned by the vast majority of employees, and no work gets done. Whether you plan to be snuggled on a couch by an open fire or logging truncated days of semi-productivity in a half-empty office, […]
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Stop crying: Environmental tales don’t have to be ‘The Lorax’
Cross-posted from the Last Word on Nothing. I’ve spent a lot of time this past year thinking and writing about extinction, which means I’ve also spent a lot of time drinking thinking about the tragic narrative in environmental journalism. There’s a lot of genuine tragedy on the environmental beat, and it doesn’t take a partisan to see […]
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Murdoch's sins go way beyond the hacking scandal
News of the World's phone hacking has been offensive, but News Corp has done something worse: It damaged the public's understanding of climate science
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Unfair and balanced: Is U.S. reporting too soft on climate skeptics?
Does American media's attempt to be fair and balanced in their climate coverage give too much weight to climate deniers?