| Climate change coverage changes focus
Climate change isn't just science news anymore.For many media outlets, the scientific debate over the existence of climate change is over, and the question of its social impacts is taking center stage.At a daylong seminar in Portland Saturday, more than 80 print and broadcast journalists from across the country sat face to face with leading experts on climate change. The East Oregonian Publishing Company's year-long look at climate change in 2006, which was published in The Capital Press, was among work cited as leading the curve on addressing the issue.On the agenda Saturday was moving news coverage beyond the existence of a warmer world and into the consequences. Bob Doppelt, director of the University of Oregon's Climate Leadership Initiative, said his experience as a source for a news story on climate change triggered questions in his mind about whether journalists were seeing the same the picture as the majority of climate scientists.Doppelt leads a research team focused on social science of climate change. Seeing how the media was struggling to tackle climate change issues moved him to start talking to reporters... |
