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Max Boykoff and other leaders in climate communication help the New York Times assess its climate change coverage.<\/p>\n
After Changes, How Green Is The Times?<\/strong> EARLY this year, The Times came under heavy criticism from many readers who care deeply about news coverage about the environment \u2014 especially climate change. Times editors emphasized that they were not abandoning the subject \u2014 just taking it out of its silo and integrating it into many areas of coverage.\u00a0 The changes were made for both cost-cutting and strategic reasons, they said, and the blog did not have high readership. Readers and outside critics weren\u2019t buying it. They scoffed at the idea that less would somehow translate into not only more, but also better.<\/p>\n So what has happened since? And where does the situation stand now? I talked to Times journalists and outside observers who are close readers of The Times\u2019s environment coverage \u2014 including former Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice and a former newspaper journalist himself. And with the help of a news assistant, Jonah Bromwich, my office did its own analysis.<\/p>\n Some observations:<\/p>\n Max Boykoff and other leaders in climate communication help the New York Times assess its climate change coverage. After Changes, How Green Is The Times? by Margaret Sullivan EARLY this year, The Times came under heavy criticism from many readers … Continue reading
\nby Margaret Sullivan<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIn January, The Times dismantled its \u201cpod\u201d of reporters and editors devoted to that subject. And in March, it discontinued its Green blog, a daily destination for environmental news.<\/p>\n\n