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‘Early Signs’: A Journalism Class Project at Berkeley

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…
December 15, 2005

Accepting Global Warming as Fact

‘It helps that the German media is less strict about the division between editorials and news than the news media in the United States.’
December 15, 2005

Global Warming: What’s Known vs. What’s Told

‘Americans could be forgiven for not knowing how uncontroversial this issue is among the vast majority of scientists.’
December 15, 2005

Weight-of-Evidence Reporting: What Is It? Why Use It?

Journalists ‘find out where the bulk of evidence and expert thought lies on the truth continuum and then communicate that to audiences.’
December 15, 2005

The Disconnect of News Reporting From Scientific Evidence

Balanced coverage results in a ‘misleading scenario that there is a raging debate among climate-change scientists regarding humanity’s role in climate change.’
December 15, 2005

Disinformation, Financial Pressures, and Misplaced Balance

A reporter describes the systemic forces that work against the story of climate change being accurately told.
December 15, 2005

Knowing Uncertainty for What It Is

In reporting on the science of global warming, journalists contend with powerful, well-funded forces using strategies created by tobacco companies.
December 15, 2005

How Do We Cover Penguins and Politics of Denial?

Bill Moyers suggests a new approach to conveying reporting about global warming.
December 15, 2005

Observing Those Who Observe

A journalist travels to the ends of the earth and reports from ‘distant, inaccessible places [that] have a grip on the popular imagination ….’
December 1, 2005

Native News Honors Project

In a journalism class at the University of Montana, students report from the state’s Indian Country, and their words and images are published.
September 15, 2005