Workshop: Climate Journalism Collaborations

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Climate Central and the Center for Cooperative Media held an online workshop on March 12, 2021, to discuss best practices for beginning and maintaining collaborative projects and to hear from experts and journalists who have created successful projects across media outlets.

And if you’re interested in learning more check out the Center for Cooperative Media’s upcoming Collaborative Journalism Summit, held online May 19-21.

Lineup:

Part 1:The state and art of journalism collaborations (Stefanie Murray, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University) @StefanieMurray

• Steve Sapienza, senior strategist, collaborative news partnerships at the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting  @saptwit 

• Carrie Porter, journalist and author of Center for Cooperative Media report, "Adapting to a Changing Climate: How collaboration addresses unique challenges in climate-change and environmental reporting" @carolineporter

Part 2:  Climate and science collaborations (John Upton, Climate Central)

• Alex Harris, climate change reporter at the Miami Herald, a founding member of the Florida Climate Reporting Network @harrisalexc

• Lisa Song, environment/climate reporter at ProPublica @lisalsong

• Fara Warner, manager of the Business and Sustainability Initiative at the Solutions Journalism Network @Farawarner 

• Amanda Stanley, executive director at COMPASS Science Communications 

• Mark Hertsgaard, executive director at Covering Climate Now

Part 3: TV news and collaborations (Sean Sublette, Climate Central) 

• Chris Gloninger, meteorologist at WBTS (NBC) Boston @ChrisGNBCBoston

• Mike Goldrick, news director at WRC (NBC) Washington, DC @gatormikenews

Resources for collaboration and examples of collaboration work:

• Slide presentation from workshop

• collaborativejournalism.org

• Center for Cooperative Media | Montclair State University

• Climate Central | Partnerships Journalism

• Adapting to a Changing Climate Report

• Americans' Interest in Climate News 2020 - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

• Solutions Journalism Network

• SmithGeiger research on power of solutions journalism 

• Apply Now: Business & Sustainability Initiative at Solutions Journalism Network

• Solutions Journalism Story Tracker Collection

• Florida Climate Reporting Network

• ProPublica and The Texas Tribune collaboration on Hurricane Harvey

• ProPublica and WBUR collaboration on toxic chemicals at MIT Lab

• The Message Box | COMPASS compassscicomm.org

• Do I make myself clear? Media training for scientists

• Every scientists-versus-journalists debate ever, in one diagram

• Covering Climate Now

• NBC Boston Climate Change in New England

• NBC/Climate Central Affordable Housing story