
Covering Climate Change
A Workshop for Journalists
Videos
Keynote Conversation
- Introduction: Sean Harder, communications officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Gina McCarthy, director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE) and former administrator of the EPA (2013-2017)
- Moderator: Vanessa Hauc, senior correspondent for Noticias Telemundo and co-founder of Sachamama, a nonprofit that educates the Latino community about climate issues and sustainable behavior
Discussion
Q & A
Communicating About Climate Change
- Dr. Aaron Bernstein, co-director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE), pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
- Cristine Russell, science journalist, adjunct lecturer in public policy and a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and in the Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Lori Weigel, principal and founder of New Bridge Strategy
- Moderator: Susan Joy Hassol, director of Climate Communication
Climate Issues Through a Health Lens
- Natalia Linos, executive director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University
- George Luber, epidemiologist and former head of the CDC’s Climate and Health Program
- Dr. Mary Rice, pulmonary and critical care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Moderator: Martha Bebinger, WBUR health care reporter and a 2010 Nieman Fellow
Climate Issues Through a Community Lens
- Elliot Diringer, executive vice president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)
- Peter Shumlin, former governor of Vermont and a fall 2019 Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Chris Wheat, director of strategy and city engagement for the American Cities Climate Challenge at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a program supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Moderator: Ashley Smart, associate director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT
Keynote conversation with youth climate activists/organizers of the Boston climate strike
- Saya Ameli Hajebi, a climate activist in Boston and co-leader of media for the Boston chapter of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-lead organization confronting climate change
- Amalia Hochman, co-leader of the Massachusetts Youth Climate Strike
- James Healy, member of the 2019-20 cohort of the Harvard Climate Leaders Program and co-leader of media for the Boston chapter of the Sunrise Movement
- Moderator: Aleszu Bajak, a science and data journalist and graduate programs manager at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism
Resources and Strategies for Climate Reporting
- Susan Joy Hassol, director of Climate Communication
- Sean Sublette, meteorologist for Climate Central’s Climate Matters program
Collaborations and Innovations in Climate Reporting
- Alex Harris, climate change reporter for the Miami Herald
- David Bornstein, co-founder and CEO of the Solutions Journalism Network
- Lisa Friedman, climate change reporter at The New York Times
- Moderator: Jeff Brady, NPR national desk correspondent based in Philadelphia
Showing and Telling Climate Stories
- John D. Sutter, National Geographic Explorer, CNN climate analyst, “BASELINE” director
- Rosanna Xia, environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times
- Emily Atkin, founder of the newsletter HEATED