{"id":40905,"date":"2019-09-21T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T11:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40905"},"modified":"2019-09-21T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T11:23:31","slug":"covering-climate-now-will-the-media-seize-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40905","title":{"rendered":"Covering Climate Now: Will the media seize the moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On The Listening Post<\/em> this week: A global network of more than 300 media outlets ramps up climate coverage ahead of next week’s United Nations summit. Plus, the community-based journalistic <\/span>collectives covering Rio de Janeiro’s favelas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Climate crisis:\u00a0How mainstream media are part of the problem<\/span>
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Record heatwaves in Europe<\/a> and Africa. Droughts in southern India<\/a> on an unprecedented scale. Hurricanes – more frequent and violent than ever. And wildfires in, of all places, the Arctic.<\/p>\n

The global news media are, after decades of looking the other way, finally waking up to what scientists have long called an emergency –\u00a0climate change.<\/a><\/p>\n

Take Covering Climate Now<\/a>, an alliance across six continents of more than 300 media outlets, including Al Jazeera, currently running a week’s worth of climate coverage in the lead up to a summit on the subject in New York.<\/p>\n

The shortfall in the coverage and the shortcomings expose the ugly, irresponsible side of modern journalism, particularly the corporate kind.<\/p>\n

The Listening Post<\/em> looks at how the mainstream media are part of the problem.<\/p>\n

Lead contributors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Hertsgaard – co-founder, Covering Climate Now and Environment Correspondent, The Nation<\/p>\n

Jayashree Nandi – environment reporter, Hindustan Times<\/p>\n

Sipho Kings – news editor, The Mail & Guardian and Author, ‘South Africa’s Survival Guide to Climate Change’<\/p>\n

George Monbiot – columnist, The Guardian<\/p>\n

On our radar<\/h2>\n

Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Meenakshi Ravi about a high-profile Egyptian actor exposing cases of corruption by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi<\/a> and his inner circle; and the man who brought about the Brexit referendum and is now cashing in on it.<\/p>\n

Document, mobilise, amplify: The media activists in Rio’s favelas<\/h2>\n

Consider what you know – or think you know – about the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you see them as the Brazilian media – and many international outlets – have depicted them: Lawless communities, virtual no-go zones for police, where the only realistic solution is a security show of force.<\/p>\n

That prevailing picture works well for two politicians in particular: President Jair Bolsonaro<\/a> and Rio’s Governor Wilson Witzel. Both have given police more authority to use lethal force in the favelas.<\/p>\n

But The Listening Post<\/em>‘s\u00a0Tariq Nafi shows there is an alternative media narrative, emerging through community-based journalistic collectives like Papo Reto and Mare Vive.<\/p>\n

Contributors:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thaina de Medeiros – Papo Reto Media Collective<\/p>\n

Naldinho Lourenco – Mare Vive Media Collective<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On The Listening Post this week: A global network of more than 300 media outlets ramps up climate coverage ahead of next week’s United Nations summit. Plus, the community-based journalistic collectives covering Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Climate crisis:\u00a0How mainstream media are part of the problem Record heatwaves in Europe and Africa. Droughts in southern India…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}