Climate Journalism in Decline

[rangerrebew]

Climate Journalism in Decline
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 4, 2026

Belle de Jong, environment editor at The European Correspondent [1], recently posted on social media:

Climate journalism is shrinking, this recent Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard piece shows. CBS lost its entire climate desk, the Washington Post cut 74% of its climate team, and NPR laid off its climate desk editor. The Media and Climate Change Observatory’s 2025 year-end analysis showed a 38% reduction in global media’s climate coverage in 2025, since the high-water mark of 2021.

She then reverses the causality to state:

The decline in weekly climate news consumption was driven partly by reduced supply, rather than a lack of interest, the Reuters Institute’s 2025 report found. People are still interested in climate news, but newsrooms stopped supplying it.

de Jong then states what she wishes were true:

All while climate change is changing our daily lives, from fatal heatwaves and floods to food prices and public health. When newsrooms get rid of climate reporters, readers lose the people trained to connect drought to bread prices or a Brussels directive to the decisions of a farmer.

People understand the decisions their governments are making through journalism. Without reporters who understand the science and the stakes, those decisions are made with far less scrutiny, and readers are left to make sense of a warming world with even less to go on than they had a few years ago.

Conclusion?

https://www.masterresource.org/climate-messaging/climate-journalism-decline/

[rangerrebew]

I always felt that climate journalism, for the most part, was lower than whale sh*t to begin with,

[DefiantMassRINO]

Genuine journalism is a search for truth.

Climate journalism is a search for sensational alarmist headlines and sound bites.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

It is like DEI.

A made up solution looking for a made up problem, all at taxpayer cost.

[ChemEngrMBA]

She then reverses the causality to state:

The decline in weekly climate news consumption was driven partly by reduced supply, rather than a lack of interest, the Reuters Institute’s 2025 report found. People are still interested in climate news, but newsrooms stopped supplying it.

A survey of over nine million people around the world were asked to rank their most pressing concerns.  Global Warming was 16th on the list, dead last.   This is because of incessant lying and exaggeration by reporters and "scientists" who got paid to lie.  https://TheGlobalWarmingFraud.wordpress.com