The major challenges facing climate journalism

Most audiences in most countries still get their information about climate change from mainstream media, including tv news, online news sites and documentaries. In this seminar, based on discussion, we look at six of the complex challenges facing journalists: Should they be advocates? What language should they use? How are climate misinformation and disinformation changing? How to report extreme weather events? How to balance fear versus hope? How to move climate change ‘out of the ghetto’.