Peril & Promise: Climate Journalism In The Age Of Climate Emergency

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PERIL & PROMISE: CLIMATE JOURNALISM IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE EMERGENCY

It’s Climate Week in New York City. As the world faces an increasingly dire climate emergency, MetroFocus welcomes three winners of this year’s Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, awarded for excellence in reporting on the climate crisis and its solutions. With us tonight are Mark Albert, winner of the Short-Form Video award for his seven-part series for Hearst Television Forecasting Our Future, a massive undertaking that took Mark to counties all over the country to see the impact of climate change on local communities. Cameron Oglesby, winner of the Student Journalist of the Year award, joins us to talk about her reporting centering on Black and Indigenous narratives in environmental reporting, including her story on the use of Navajo lands to generate power for Los Angeles even as 15,000 Navajo households didn’t have electricity. And Alleen Brown discusses her groundbreaking Multimedia series for The Intercept, Climate and Punishment, in which she researched and reported on the risk posed by heat, wildfires and floods to prison populations around the country, including Rikers.

GUEST: MARK ALBERT –INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER & COVERING CLIMATE NOW AWARD WINNER (SHORT-FORM VIDEO)

GUEST: CAMERON OGLESBY – ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE JOURNALIST & COVERING CLIMATE NOW AWARD WINNER (STUDENT)

GUEST: ALLEEN BROWN – INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST REPORTING FOR THE INTERCEPT & COVERING CLIMATE NOW AWARD WINNER (MULTIMEDIA)