Opinion

In his opening essay, Dan Fagin, associate director of New York University’s Science and Environmental Reporting Program, plows the common ground beneath the coverage of intelligent design and global warming.…

With the United States’s opposition to Kyoto so strong, a Canadian journalist finds little pressure from editors to include that perspective in his stories.

A comparison between the United States and Germany reveals insights about why journalists in each country report about this issue in different ways.

One Sunday in August 2004, as I set down The New York Times Book Review, it suddenly occurred to me that there was sufficient evidence to explore one of the…

‘It helps that the German media is less strict about the division between editorials and news than the news media in the United States.’

‘Americans could be forgiven for not knowing how uncontroversial this issue is among the vast majority of scientists.’

Journalists ‘find out where the bulk of evidence and expert thought lies on the truth continuum and then communicate that to audiences.’

Balanced coverage results in a ‘misleading scenario that there is a raging debate among climate-change scientists regarding humanity’s role in climate change.’

A reporter describes the systemic forces that work against the story of climate change being accurately told.

In reporting on the science of global warming, journalists contend with powerful, well-funded forces using strategies created by tobacco companies.