📢 Announcing the WINNERS of the 2nd annual Covering Climate Now Climate Journalism Awards! Grab your 🍿 and follow this 🧵 in which we'll be revealing the winners in all categories. #CCNowAwards🏆
This @latimes team investigative series deployed data digging + analysis to project that California’s death toll from searing temperatures + stifling humidity—our changing climate's greatest killer worldwide—may be 6x higher than the state’s official count latimes.com/environment/st…
The award in Writing-Short Feature goes to @DKruzman for her article in @Gizmodo about uranium mines in Kyrgyzstan that are increasingly vulnerable to floods, mudflows and landslides spurred by climate change. gizmodo.com/a-tiny-town-wa…
The winner in the Newsletter category is @CarbonBrief's "China Briefing" by @xiaoying_you. Each week, she explains the most important climate + energy stories unfolding in China for a Western audience getrevue.co/profile/ChinaW…
The winner in the Audio-Long Feature category is @UgoGreenAngle's report on how climate change is affecting Nigeria—West Africa’s most populous country—where global warming is fueling conflict between farmers + traditional nomadic herders. @SceneOnRadiosceneonradio.org/s5-e6-we-dont-…
In these two stories for @TheWorld, @carolynbeeler + @HalimaGikandi do a great job with audio craft, taking the listener behind the scenes at the @UN climate summit in Glasgow
In @motarola_'s excellent @CPRNews report, the voices of local characters turn what could have been a dull feature on fire-preparedness into exemplary local journalism that both anticipates and serves the needs of its audience. cpr.org/2021/07/14/wil…#CCNowAwards🏆
In “The Impossible Choice,” winner of the Radio Podcast Series award, highly personal stories are woven together with descriptive details to pack an emotional punch. Great work from @guardian's @lagipoiva (pictured) + @MsKateLyonscpr.org/2021/07/14/wil…
These 23 winners were selected from over 900 entries submitted from 65 countries! Juries composed of distinguished journalists representing 58 newsrooms around the world chose 68 finalists before naming the ultimate winners. See all finalists + winners at coveringclimatenow.org/awards
Next up: Young people didn’t cause the climate crisis that will shape the rest of their lives, yet rarely do we hear their perspectives. This @hbomax episode "Uprooted" by @talleahmcmahon + Jim McMahon is a brilliant exception. Watch: hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo…
In Video-Daily Coverage, we have two winners! 1/ Skillfully reported + beautifully shot, this piece by @AJEnglish@nicolashaque@EvaKasprowicz@HugoJB is an artful mix of the reporter’s observations, interviews + footage showing the impact of rising seas
Winner Video-Short Feature: Learn how rising seas will rewrite the world's maps, doom some of its biggest cities + unjustly brutalize 10s of millions of its poorest inhabitants from a team of journalists at @AFP. See more: coveringclimate.org/awards
Next 🏆 goes to "Parched and in Peril” by Andy Coates, @jpetramala + @bclemms for visually compelling, scientifically driven + impactful storytelling on both the perils of climate change + the search for strategies to combat it from @weatherchannel. More: coveringclimate.org/awards
Multimedia Winner: @Third_Pole invites you to float (or in this case, scroll) down India’s Brahmaputra river while listening to songs from people who have been displaced by flooding and erosion driven by climate change. By @chandranisinha1 + @SoebZobaid. thethirdpole.net/en/culture/bra…
Social Media-Engagement Winner: The skillful melding of journalistic rigor, artistry + creative audience engagement by @Lolagars' @outrid3rs Power Postcards illustrates the potential of innovation to inspire an already invested reader more deeply outride.rs/en/power-postc…
In the Industry Innovation category, we have 2 Winners! Imagine 2200 is a contest from @Grist that encourages diverse + underrepresented voices to envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress through short fictional stories grist.org/fix/series/ima…#CCNowAwards🏆
The 2nd 🏆 in our Industry Innovation category goes to "Um Só Planeta," which translates to “Only One Planet,” a collaborative project spearheaded by Globo, one of Brazil’s biggest media companies. See more: coveringclimate.org/awards
The Emerging Journalist of the Year 🏆 goes to @ShannonOsaka. She joined @Grist at the beginning of the pandemic. Her editors quickly came to value her uncanny ability to find engaging angles + guide readers through challenging subjects. shannonosaka.com
And finally...
The Winner of the inaugural Climate Journalist of the Year 🏆 is... @TIME Senior Correspondent @JustinWorland!
@JustinWorland’s combination of authoritative reporting with broader newsroom leadership elevates him as an exceptional journalist, making him the distinguished winner of this inaugural award. Congratulations to Justin! #CCNowAwards🏆
Annnddd that's a wrap on our thread revealing the amazing journalists we're honoring in the 2022 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! Pls. help us spread the word about this incredible climate journalism by RT or by sharing our full list of winners at coveringclimate.org/awards
Denying climate science. Repealing the Inflation Reduction Act, the most ambitious climate law in US history. Drilling in the Arctic wilderness. These policies could become a reality, depending on how Americans vote in November. bit.ly/3TpLF0q
Joe Biden and Donald Trump have all but locked up their parties’ presidential nominations sending the US toward a déja vu election echoing 2020. But in 2024, the time remaining to avoid climate breakdown is even shorter; global emissions must fall rapidly over the next 5 years.
Yet polling shows that most Americans know very little about the respective climate records of Trump and Biden and the vastly different climate futures they portend.
That knowledge gap is something journalists are uniquely situated to remedy.
📣 It's your favorite time of year again... #CCNowAwards season! We are thrilled to announce the WINNERS of the 3rd annual Covering Climate Now Climate Journalism Awards! Grab your 🍿 and follow this 🧵 to find out who won... #CCNowAwards 🙌 coveringclimatenow.org/awards
We're kicking things off with our 🎧 Audio Long Form winner: @TWholf at @ABC and @DanGearino at @insideclimate brought us a story from the green energy transition, as an Ohio farmer grapples with his decision to lease his land to a solar array developer. abcnews.go.com/US/rural-ohio-…
@TWholf @ABC @DanGearino @insideclimate Next up, we're proud to announce not one, but TWO 🎙️ Podcast winners! @amywestervelt has brought us a gripping, TV-legal-drama-esque podcast that follows hundreds of lawsuits worldwide arguing for the "rights of nature." Check out Season 1 here: drilled.media/podcasts/damag…
Now more than ever, journalists need to be aware of coordinated efforts to misinform the public on climate change. We partnered with @CAADcoalition to produce this graphic series highlighting 7 tips for combatting climate change. 🧵
@caadcoalition Sometimes it’s better not to report on misinformation, but if the misinformation has the potential to harm people or impact society in a detrimental way, or if it’s been widely spread, it can merit coverage.
@caadcoalition Misinformation related to climate change predates social media, but as we all know, platforms — like this one — are rife with it because it can spread quickly. Experts recommend warning your audience about misinformation BEFORE they see it. But doing that requires some finesse.