Climate Is the Everything Story

Every journalist is now a climate journalist, and journalists on every beat can and should integrate climate storytelling into their coverage. Dispelling myths that climate change is too technical, should be left to science journalists, or that audiences aren’t interested in climate change, this important virtual conversation covers best practices for supporting communities in effecting change and amplifying climate journalists’ work amid powerful opposition from governments and corporations.

Speakers

• Angela K. Evans is the Director, Communities of Practice at the Solutions Journalism Network, where she supports, develops and connects like-minded journalists, creating more opportunities for peer-learning. She also leads SJN’s global network of climate journalists and other programs designed to empower reporters to tell solutions-focused stories about the environment. As an experienced journalist, Angela is committed to inspiring community connection and raising public engagement through storytelling. Based in Denver, Colorado, she’s been a local reporter and editor since 2014, with an emphasis on immigration, local policy, and environmental issues.
• Andrew McCormick is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Columbia Journalism Review, where he was a Delacorte Magazine Fellow, among other outlets. Andrew helped launch Covering Climate Now in 2019 and additionally serves on the adjunct faculty of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is a US Navy veteran.

Moderator

• Breanna Draxler has been editing, reporting, and writing for national magazines and online outlets for more than a decade. Her coverage centers on climate and environmental justice. Most recently she was the deputy editor at YES! Magazine.

Resources

• Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation
• Climate Belongs on Every Beat
• Hotter, faster, stronger: Heat island effect endangers New Yorkers
• The Heat is Killing Us: Climate change & rising temps are increasing gun violence
• Is Burying Power Lines Fire-Prevention Magic, or Magical Thinking?
• Crises collide: Homeless in America when climate disaster strikes
• ‘Huge blind spot’: The 19th’s Jessica Kutz on covering the gender-climate connection
• The 89% Project
• Precision agriculture promises rural farmers efficiency, but barriers hold local implementation back
• Solutions Journalism Stories Boost Pro-Environmental Behavioral Intentions Through Positive Affect and Collective Efficacy Beliefs
• Solutions journalism research from SmithGeiger
• How solutions address concerns of news avoiders (reported in the 2023 Digital News Report)
• Q&A: Maine Public hits the road to tell climate stories from every county
• Q&A: Le Monde climate journalist Nabil Wakim envisions an ‘all-climate newsroom’
• Reporting a Disaster When It’s Where You Live
• The 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards

More on the Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation

Solutions Journalism Network and Covering Climate Now are hosting a series of webinars on topics covered in the Climate Blueprint. Watch the recording of the first session, The Movement Is the Story, from June 10, 2025.

Join more important climate journalism conversations

Register for ONA25 to participate in more climate discussions, including:

• Beyond The Choir: How To Diversify The Audience For Your Climate Coverage
• Engage With Local Communities To Strengthen Climate Journalism
• Making Climate Personal: Centering People and Solutions in Climate Visuals That Move Audience
• How To Report on the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change
• Mission-Driven Journalism That Works: Turning Climate Coverage into Opportunity
• Build the Case: A Climate Journalism Funding Lab
• Workshop: Is Your News Organization Climate-Ready?
• Workshop: Covering Climate Solutions