SEJ Webinar: Covering a Crisis: Climate, Coronavirus and Global (In)Action

Webinar files:

Shared screen with speaker view (1.59 GB)
Shared screen with gallery view (859 MB)
Audio only (26 MB)
Chat file

Coverage:

"Covering Climate Change in Age of Coronavirus," SEJournal/SEJ News, April 8, 2020, by Joseph A. Davis.
"Climate experts look to COVID-19 as a model for crisis coverage," USC Annenberg Media, April 7, 2020, by Hayley Smith.

How should the media cover a crisis? Join us as we launch SEJ's 2020 webinar series with a discussion of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that could inform how journalists, scientists and advocates communicate about and address climate change.

With Earth Day's 50th anniversary just around the corner, we’re asking how our coverage and communication of environmental and health crises has evolved. Global action to tackle climate change and COVID-19 have both been thwarted by a lack of political will and impeded by misinformation. How can journalists inform their audiences in ways that support constructive decision-making rather than apathy or paralysis? How should journalists respond when misinformation comes directly from policymakers or major news networks? And how will changes in our approach to crises and misinformation factor into our coverage of these issues as we approach the 2020 election?

Join us for this webinar on Thursday, April 2, 2020 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ET.
All journalists welcome.

Speakers:

Denis Hayes, Board Chair Emeritus, The Earth Day Network; President and CEO, The Bullitt Foundation
Katharine Hayhoe, Professor of Political Science, Texas Tech University
Alice Hill, Senior Fellow for Climate Change Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
John Mecklin, Editor-in-Chief, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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