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Jill Hopke

@jillhopke.bsky.social
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Teaching and writing about the future of climate journalism. All opinions my own. #climatehope Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=G… Muck Rack: muckrack.com/jill-hopke

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NPR @npr.org · 30/08/2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.
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Canada claps back at Trump's efforts to rename Lake Ontario as 'Lake America'
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario — Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My own family story is partly English Canadian, going back four generations in Upper Canada (Ontario). According to the Canadian Encyclopedia the name has Iroquoian origins, meaning “beautiful lake” or “sparkling water.” #LakeOntario thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/l...
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Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is 18,960 km2 (10,049 km2 in Canada), with a drainage area of 60,030 km2, an elevation of 75 m, a mean depth of 86 m (max 244 m), length 311 km an...
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Naming is political. At a time when so much is happening in the world, the U.S. federal government's action to rename Lake Ontario is a distraction and sowing division between countries with a long shared history. First, the Gulf of Mexico and now this. #LakeOntario apnews.com/article/lake...
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Lake Ontario now called Lake America on Google Maps for US users after Trump ordered name change
Google says it has updated its maps application to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for users in the United States.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2026
As the senior climate editor at NPR, when extreme weather impacts us, I often send out guidance to the newsroom to help everyone understand the role of climate change. Here's what I tell them. n.pr/4xpvNhw
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Did climate change cause this heat wave? Most likely, and here's why
As the senior climate editor at NPR, when extreme weather impacts us, I often send out guidance to the newsroom to help everyone understand the role of climate change. Here's what I tell them.
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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 14/08/2026
What Is Happening to Climate Journalism? Amid layoffs and industry belt-tightening, quality of coverage, not quantity, becomes even more important niemanreports.org/climate-jour...
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What Is Happening to Climate Journalism? - Nieman Reports
Amid layoffs and industry belt-tightening, quality of coverage, not quantity, becomes even more important
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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Suzannah Evans Comfort and Jill Hopke argue that the health of climate journalism cannot be measured by story volume alone. The bigger warning sign is who is being cut from the beat.
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What Is Happening to Climate Journalism? - Nieman Reports
Amid layoffs and industry belt-tightening, quality of coverage, not quantity, becomes even more important
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
There's conversation right now about a decline in climate coverage. Thanks to Nieman Reports for publishing this commentary by @suzannah-comfort.bsky.social and I. We argue that it's crucial to keep who's doing the coverage front and center. #climatechange #journalism
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'm delighted to have a new short piece out in #PublicHumanities arguing that humanities and social science scholars should call out #AIslop as "information pollution." Maybe human curation helps humans get out of the AI slop #deepfakes mess: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Stemming the Flood of Information Pollution: Human Curation as an Antidote to A.I. Deepfakes | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Stemming the Flood of Information Pollution: Human Curation as an Antidote to A.I. Deepfakes - Volume 2
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Such an awesome line-up of tours at #SEJ2026 this year. It's hard to pick just one! I look forward to welcoming SEJ attendees to Chicago next week.
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This looks like a great opportunity for Chicago-based journalists. Join us at #SEJ2026 for the Saturday afternoon Pitch Fest. Details below: ⬇️
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SEJ — Society of Environmental Journalists @sejorg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We're deeply saddened by the news of environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg's death. A vital voice in our field, including as a reporter covering climate change and the environment, she was also a valued member of the SEJ community. www.sej.org/sej-mourns-l...
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SEJ Mourns Loss of Member Tatiana Schlossberg
We're deeply saddened by the news of environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg's death. A vital voice in our field, including as a reporter covering climate change and the environment for The New Y...
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks @carbonbrief.org for including @antalwozniak.bsky.social and my new study on UK media reporting of climate risks to soil health, or really the lack thereof of such reporting, in a recent research roundup. Full #openaccess study rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #geosky #scicomm
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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 19/12/2025
🎉 Nieman Reports’ Top 10 Stories of 2025 As 2025 winds down, here are 10 features from Nieman Reports that are worth a (re)read niemanreports.org/nieman-repor...
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Nieman Reports’ Top 10 Stories of 2025 - Nieman Reports
As 2025 winds down, here are 10 features from Nieman Reports that are worth a (re)read
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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
New in The GJ: '(Not) covering climate risks: A multimodal news framing analysis of soil health reporting in the UK press' by @antalwozniak.bsky.social & @jillhopke.bsky.social This paper explores the lack of reporting on soil health in the UK between 2022-2024. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Antal Wozniak & Jill Hopke (2025) entitled: '(Not) Covering Climate Risks: A Multimodal News Framing Analysis of Soil Health Reporting in the UK Press' with a blue banner at the top.

Risks to soil health from increased flooding and drought due to climate change are a priority risk area for the UK government. Our analysis of newspaper coverage of this issue reveals very little attention to it in the two years following the release of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022. We conduct a qualitative multimodal framing analysis of a population of 42 news reports and their 117 accompanying images. We identify two major issue frames that include soil health as either a remedy or cause: habitat/biodiversity loss and food insecurity. Both focus on adaptation measures, mostly in industrial agriculture and community- or individual-level gardening. Climate change mitigation through carbon sequestration is a secondary aspect that cuts across both issue frames. Policymakers are largely absent, both in writing and imagery. Visuals are often generic and lack representations of loss. Implications for publicly communicating the climate risk of soil degradation are discussed.
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Antal Wozniak @antalwozniak.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
@jillhopke.bsky.social and I took a closer look at reporting of the climate risk of soil health degradation due to flooding and drought in the UK press. You can read our research paper (open access) in The Geographical Journal.
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Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New publication in The Geographical Journal co-authored by @antalwozniak.bsky.social!! rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Risks to soil health from increased flooding and drought due to climate change are a priority risk area for the UK government, but our analysis of two years of UK newspaper coverage on this issue rev...
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Antal Wozniak @antalwozniak.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Please consider contributing to our special issue on communicating the climate crisis in an age of rising authoritarian populism. We accept short commentaries and full research papers.
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I am co-editing a special issue ‘Communicating Climate Change in an Age of Rising Authoritarian Populism’ of the Journal of Environmental Media with @antalwozniak.bsky.social and Sibo Chen. We're accepting pitches for commentaries and abstracts for full papers www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-e...
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Journal of Environmental Media
Journal of Environmental Media; The Journal of Environmental Media offers a scholarly platform to bridge work in environmental studies, identity and social justice, and science communication through t...
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NPR @npr.org · 02/09/2025
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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CASW @sciencewriting.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Thanks for the shoutout to our Climate News Task Force, @niemanreports.org! niemanreports.org/battling-cli...
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Battling a Climate Change Backlash - Nieman Reports
Jill Hopke's recommendations on how to improve reporting on extreme weather in an age of denialism and cutbacks
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Pleased to speak with Chris Mooney for his article on the state of climate journalism. Local news often gets overlooked and that's where so many people get info during extreme heat and disasters. @antalwozniak.bsky.social and my research is open access at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #scicomm
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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Related 🧵A conference session I attended recently focused on mental health impacts of anxiety & depression on conservation workers, plus the mental health impacts triggered by air quality, heat, trauma etc. on various population groups, 🧵includes resources. #scicomm 🌎🧪1/11
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I've got an opinion article out in @niemanreports.org sharing tips for improving media reporting on climate change-fueled disasters. Shout out to my colleague @antalwozniak.bsky.social who co-authored heat wave coverage research with me. #climatechange #journalism niemanreports.org/battling-cli...
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Battling a Climate Change Backlash - Nieman Reports
Jill Hopke's recommendations on how to improve reporting on extreme weather in an age of denialism and cutbacks
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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
As you are tuning into our stream-a-thon, we encourage you to talk to your friends, family, and representatives about the importance of weather and climate research! @5calls.org has phone numbers and scripts to help you get started! Visit: wclivestream.com/act/ to help #SaveAmericasForecasts
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I enjoyed watching the "100 Hours to Save America’s Forecasts" @wclivestream.bsky.social this morning with my kiddo. We learned about glaciers and more. It's so important to fund climate science research. Watch at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r58F...
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100 Hours to Save America’s Forecasts, Weather and Climate Livestream Part 9
YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream
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ACLU @aclu.org · 21/05/2025
The National Institutes of Health has abruptly canceled millions of dollars in grants for research without a valid explanation, stifling scientific progress and putting lives at risk. We're taking the Trump administration to court this week because funding science shouldn't be political.
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‘Devastated’ and ‘Hopeless.’ Researchers Speak Out on Funding Cuts | ACLU
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/04/2025
No one should be deported to a prison in another country without due process.
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Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations
The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time. The judge gave the U.S. until April 23 to respond.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thank you @ametsoc.org and @nwas.org for your joint statement in support of NOAA.
The administration's 2026 budget passback plan, currently under consideration, eliminates NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) Office and its 10 research laboratories and 16 affiliated Cooperative Institutes, and moves the few remaining research efforts to different NOAA departments. If enacted, the passback would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes. 
  
The speed at which these decisions are being made translates into little to no opportunity for feedback or consideration of long-term impacts. Without NOAA research, National Weather Service (NWS) weather models and products will stagnate, observational data collection will be reduced, public outreach will decrease, undergraduate and graduate student support will drop, and NOAA funding for universities will plummet. In effect, the scientific backbone and workforce needed to keep weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective will be drastically undercut, with unknown — yet almost certainly disastrous — consequences for public safety and economic health. 
  
As key stakeholders, AMS and NWA stand ready to provide our expertise so that the U.S. can maintain its competitiveness in the years ahead. 
  
If you believe in the importance of NOAA research for maintaining and improving NWS forecasts and services to the nation then the time to act is now. Reach out to your elected representatives and share your concerns.
  
To envision the disastrous impact of this plan, one only needs to see what NOAA research has provided to the U.S. taxpayer and imagine where we would be without it. For example, the work of NOAA Research Labs and Cooperative Institutes: 
•	Sparked and developed our national Doppler radar network. NOAA research proved that Doppler weather radars are critical for severe thunderstorm warnings. This research led directly to the creation of the national Doppler weather radar network, which provides the radar observations you see on television and on your phone, and which meteorologists use to keep you safe during hazardous and severe weather. The next generation of weather radar is now being developed in the same laboratories. 
•	Feeds National Weather Service forecasts. NOAA research created and continuously improves the two computer weather models used by the National Weather Service to generate hourly and daily weather forecasts. One model focuses on predicting severe weather and is used extensively by the transportation and energy sectors. Another model predicts global weather patterns across the world for the 3- to 14-day range, with forecast outlooks used by farmers, ranchers, and water managers. 
•	Helps us respond to hurricanes. The NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft that fly into Atlantic Ocean hurricanes collect essential observations to improve forecasts of hurricane landfall location and intensity, leading to better evacuation decisions and emergency response. This directly impacts public safety during extreme weather events. 
•	Helps us track airborne hazards. NOAA research developed and continuously improves models to track the release of hazardous materials, including toxins, wildfire smoke, and volcanic ash, to keep people out of danger — as well as creating specialized instruments to detect those airborne hazards. 
•	Keeps water treatment plants on track. NOAA implemented and operates a lake hypoxia warning system to help keep drinking water potable in the Great Lakes region.
•	Warns communities of tsunamis. NOAA researchers developed and maintain the real-time tsunami monitoring system that plays a critical role in tsunami forecasting and helps keep coastal communities safe. 
•	Helps farmer…Imagine what will happen to tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings if we don’t have a robust national weather radar network? What will happen to reservoir management when critical information on rainfall and runoff goes missing? What will happen when Hurricane Hunter aircraft are delayed or data from their instruments are not available to improve hurricane track and landfall forecasts? NOAA research affects the lives of American taxpayers every day. It is vital to the work of the National Weather Service and the NOAA mission to predict the environment and share that information with businesses, communities, state and local governments, and citizens. 
  
NOAA Research costs every American citizen less than a cup of coffee a year, with large returns on this small investment. This is a prime example of effective government — one that helps grow the economy and keeps people safe. 
  
Now is the time to reach out to your elected representatives. Consider installing the 5 Calls app on your phone to assist you.
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Dorian J. Burnette @djburnette.com · 17/04/2025
Thank you @ametsoc.org and @nwas.org for your joint statement on the proposed elimination of NOAA research! The statement is at the link below and includes links to help you find your Congressional Representative and Senators. 🧪
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Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I'm a big fan of soljourno.bsky.social and so pleased that they have included @antalwozniak.bsky.social and my recent #EnvComm study of extreme heat press coverage as a resource on their site www.solutionsjournalism.org/resources/cl... #climatechange #climatesolutions #climatecrisis #openaccess
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Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves | Solutions Journalism Network
The July 2022 U.K. heatwave serves as a case study for how media outlets report on extreme heat events and their connection to climate change.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17/04/2025
I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.
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I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
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Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
American academics (sadly I am speaking to those that are U.S. citizens and still can speak out without fear of deportation): I just joined the AAUP. It is one way to push back against the Trump administration's attack on free speech and higher education. www.aaup.org/about-aaup
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About the AAUP
The AAUP was founded in 1915.
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New open access research out in Weather, Climate, and Society (@ametsoc.org). Key finding: During the 2021 Texas power blackouts mainstream media coverage echoed a contrarian unreliable wind energy narrative nearly half of the time when factchecking: doi.org/10.1175/WCAS... #windpower #climatechange
Black and white picture of a wind turbine with text: Climate change reporting and green energy misdirection: U.S. media coverage of the 2021 Texas Blackouts during Winter Storm Uri. Jill Hopke, Weather, Climate, and Society (early online release).
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Pleased to have a chapter published in a new volume, Environmental Communication, edited by Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson. I argue that we need rapid #socialmedia attribution studies to better track #climatemisinformation as it happens. #envcomm www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Environmental Communication, edited by Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson, Handbooks of Communication Science. Book cover image.
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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"The early days of the second Trump term have been greeted by a different and more troubling trend in the American press – capitulation" Read Jelani Cobb's Reuters Memorial Lecture in full, with insights on local news, distrust and covering Trump
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Full text of Jelani Cobb's 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture: Trust issues. Credibility, credulity and journalism in a time of crisis
On 10 March the Columbia Journalism Dean delivered the 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture. Here's the transcript of his talk.
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A couple of pictures from a snowy #StandUpForScience rally this afternoon in #Chicago. @standupforscience.bsky.social
Be part of the solution. Stand up for science.Science Saves Lives.Government-funded science is America's superpower.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
List of Stand Up for Science events—official events in red, solidarity events in blue.
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Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool @commmedia.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Next up is @antalwozniak.bsky.social (with Jill E. Hopke) with their article 'Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves' in Environmental Communication. doi.org/10.1080/1752...
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Jill Hopke @jillhopke.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
@mayalivio.bsky.social Hi Maya! Your environmental media research looks very interesting. I would be interested to connect sometime to chat on #envcomm and AI research.
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Antal Wozniak @antalwozniak.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Jill Hopke and I have a new research paper (open access) out now in Environmental Communication. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Climate Solutions and Climate Attribution in Extreme Heat Press Coverage: The July 2022 UK Heatwaves
Extreme weather events are short-term and have concrete impacts on local communities. This may make them easier to narrate for media outlets than the increases in global average temperatures. We us...
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