The support helps build more local and regional reporting from countries now on the front lines of climate change
NEW YORK | September 14, 2022 – NPR announced today that starting on 1 October they will launch a new climate desk that will build on the strengths of existing national and international coverage and build greater local coverage capacity across the network.
“Climate may be the most important story of our time and we need a dedicated team of journalists to cover it and work across the desks in our newsroom and with our international offices.” said NPR SVP of News and editorial director Nancy Barnes. “The new climate desk will collaborate with Member stations to do ambitious work that draws on their deep local expertise.”
“No story affects more people than climate change. Heat waves, mega-droughts and unprecedented floods are all becoming more intense and frequent. Climate-related weather disasters are changing the way people live from China to California, from Pakistan to Florida. These extreme events have caused a global food crisis, the rise of new diseases and the displacement of millions of people,” he added. kiss “With NPR’s editorial staff and Member stations, we will strive to do stories that shape the national conversation on climate change.”
Neela Banerjee, deputy climate editor, will join Kissack, along with four climate journalists from the science desk. This desk will also be joined by the new supervising editor of the Energy and Environment station associate. NPR will coordinate training for station and network reporters and convene an annual national climate change symposium for public media, as well as scientists, industry, policymakers and community activists.
NPR’s climate expansion is also made possible by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, whose funding is helping NPR add a new Climate Solutions reporter, as well as the Rockefeller Foundation, whose support will allow for more local and regional reporting from countries now in the forefront. climate change lines.
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This press release first appeared on NPR.org on September 14, 2022 and is reposted with permission.
