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📢 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.
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First Up: The winner in the Long Feature category is @tbartelme (writer) + @LaurenPetracca (photos) @postandcourier for "The Greenland Connection," which explains how melting ice and rising sea levels are already affecting his hometown of Charleston, SC. postandcourier.com/greenland/gree…

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…

Congratulations to the @latimes team behind the "Extreme Heat’s Deadly Toll" series: @tonybarboza @annamphillips @seangreene89 @LATvives @GenaroMolina47, Logan A. Arnold, @CartoonKahuna @madalyn_amato @phila_lex! latimes.com/environment/st…

The award in Writing-Daily Coverage goes to @KBlazeBaum @NancySMacdonald + Matthew McClearn @globeandmail for their coverage of British Columbia’s trio of climate disasters in the summer of 2021. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

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 award in Writing-Commentary goes to academics @JamesGDyke @robert_watson + @w_knorr for their commentary published in @ConversationUK that forcefully makes the case against putting too much trust in net zero. theconversation.com/climate-scient… #CCNowAwards🏆

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…

You can see ALL the winners at coveringclimatenow.org/awards

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. @SceneOnRadio sceneonradio.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

1/ theworld.org/stories/2021-1…

2/ theworld.org/stories/2021-1…

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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) + @MsKateLyons cpr.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

The 2nd winner in the Video-Daily Coverage category comes from @NewsHour. Correspondent @WmBrangham + the team covered #COP26 with contextual reporting from around the world. See more: coveringclimate.org/awards #CCNowAwards🏆

Congratulations to the entire team at @Newshour, including @lanesam @HolmesRyanC @MurreyJacobson @sarajust on their award-winning work.

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We also have 2 winners in the Video-Short Feature category!

See all finalists + winners at this link: coveringclimate.org/awards

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

Congratulations to the entire team at @AFP, including @Kelly_Macnamara @rpsimmonds, Antoine Demaison, @FlorGoisnard @SJpapabear @AFPJanHennop, Sonia Logre, @GirardiGi @robr1!

See their work at 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…

Photography Winner @EmilyGarthwaite (pictured) transports us to Iraq to see and feel both the humanitarian and environmental impact of climate change on the local community in this beautiful @NoemaMag feature noemamag.com/the-last-of-th… #CCNowAwards🏆

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🏆

Congratulations to the entire @Grist team: @torystephens, Galia Binder, @wheresthebassj, Jaime Buerger, Chuck Squatriglia, @clurelise @MignonKhargie @miajtorres @mweslander! 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 Student Journalist of the Year 🏆 goes to @AudreyJCarleton. Audrey is a recent graduate of @newmarkjschool and currently a reporter at @capitalandmain. Read more: capitalandmain.com/author/audrey-…

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

Mark your 🗓️: #CCNowAward winners will be featured in a one-hour special hosted by @AlRoker, co-host of @NBCNews @TODAYshow and @WatchSavannah, host of NBC’s Stay Tuned and @NBCNewsNow anchor, that will air on October 25, 2022 on the @WorldChannel.

Wow! Thanks for catching that, @jdaviescoates. We must have been tired from typing that long thread! Yes, the correct link is coveringclimatenow.org/awards.