Covering climate, from fires in Maui and Los Angeles to Texas floods to extreme heat across the country, is a diverse, sprawling, and ethically challenging beat. It often requires a full newsroom effort, pulling in reporters to address disasters and policy in a range of ways: tracking fast-moving developments in real-time, communicating scale and impact, and offering the documentation and resources that might aid communities in preparing for future destruction.
The Ethics and Journalism Initiative, in partnership with NYU’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program, is hosting a panel to explore the most urgent ethical questions in climate reporting today.
Panelists include:
Emily Atkin, author and founder of HEATED, a weekly newsletter dedicated to original accountability reporting and analysis on the climate crisis.
David Sassoon, founder and publisher of Inside Climate News.
Somini Sengupta, international climate reporter on the New York Times climate team.
The event will be moderated by Dan Fagin, director of NYU’s Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting Program.