By Mark Hertsgaard
For Columbia Journalism Review

More than 170 news outlets from around the world with a combined audience of hundreds of millions of people have signed up for Covering Climate Now, a project co-founded by CJR and The Nation aimed at strengthening the media’s focus on the climate crisis.

All outlets have committed to running a week’s worth of climate coverage in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on Sept. 23. At that meeting, the world’s governments will submit plans to meet the Paris Agreement’s pledge to keep global temperature rise “well below” 2 degrees Celsius.

[Three Colorado outlets are participating: Colorado Public Radio; The Gazette of Colorado Springs; and Mike Nelson, chief meterologist for KMGH, Channel 7, Denver.]

“The need for solid climate coverage has never been greater,” said Kyle Pope, CJR’s editor and publisher. “We’re proud that so many organizations from across the US and around the world have joined with Covering Climate Now to do our duty as journalists—to report this hugely important story.”

Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a single coverage topic. In addition to The Guardian—the lead media partner in Covering Climate Now—CJR and The Nation are joined by major newspapers, magazines, television and radio broadcasters, and global news and photo agencies in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Among the outlets represented are: Bloomberg; CBS News; El País; the Asahi Shimbun; La Repubblica; The Times of India; Getty Images; Agence France-Presse; national public TV broadcasters in Italy, Sweden, and the United States; most of the biggest public radio stations in the U.S.; scholarly journals such as Nature, Science, and the Harvard Business Review; and publications such as Vanity Fair, HuffPost, BuzzFeed News, and The Daily Beast. Covering Climate Now also includes a wide array of local news outlets and non-profit websites reporting from Rhode Island, Nevada, Turkey, Togo, and dozens of places in between.

“Collaboration with like-minded colleagues makes both journalistic and business sense in today’s media environment, and The Nation is happy to encourage such collaboration and proud to share our climate coverage as part of this exciting initiative,” said Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation.

All of the news outlets participating will decide for themselves how many climate stories to run during the September week of coverage, and what those stories say. The only requirement is that the participating outlets make a good faith effort to run as much high-quality climate coverage as they can—and thereby signal to their audiences the paramount importance of the climate story.

Some of the outlets participating in Covering Climate Now will share their climate coverage with one another, though this is by no means obligatory. Many outlets will publish or broadcast only stories they themselves produce. This decision is entirely up to each participating outlet.

A full list of participating outlets follows. For changes or updates, please email CJR editors. 

Columbia Journalism Review (Co-founder)
The Nation (Co-founder)
The Guardian (Lead Media Partner)

Wire Services and News & Photo Agencies:
Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Bloomberg
Getty Images

Newspapers:
The (Colorado Springs) Gazette
The Christian Science Monitor
The Daily Hampshire Gazette
DigBoston
The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The National Catholic Reporter
The Oklahoman
The Philadelphia Inquirer & Inquirer.com
The Portland Press Herald (Maine)
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Seattle Times
The (New Jersey) Star-Ledger & NJ.com
La Nacion (Argentina)
The Queen’s Journal (Queen’s University, Canada)
The Toronto Star (Canada)
The Varsity (The University of Toronto, Canada)
La Tercera (Chile)
The Hindustan Times (India)
La Repubblica (Italy)
The Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
The Nepali Times (Nepal)
The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Público (Portugal)
The Straits Times (Singapore)
The Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
El País (Spain)
Trouw (The Netherlands)
The i Paper (The United Kingdom)

Magazines, Journals, and Digital News Sites:
The Alpinist
Bay Nature
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bustle
BuzzFeed News
The Chicago Review of Books
Circle of Blue
Civil Eats
Climate Desk
CQ & Roll Call
The Daily Beast
DCist
DeSmog
EcoRI News
Ecosystem Marketplace
EcoWatch
Ensia
Green Philly
Grist
Harvard Business Review
Honolulu Civil Beat
HuffPost
IEEE Spectrum
The Intercept
In These Times
InsideClimate News
IPS Inter Press Service
Jolon Indian Media
Journal for the Planet
Lapham’s Quarterly
Literary Hub
Mongabay
Mother Jones
New Mexico In Depth
The New Republic
Newsweek
Nexus Media
The Oklahoma Observer
PassBlue
PublicSource
Quartz
The Real News Network
Renewable Energy World
Rethinking Schools
Rock and Ice
Rolling Stone
Science
Scientific American
Sentient Media
Silica Magazine
The Shoestring
Slate
Sludge
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Talking Points Memo
Teen Vogue
The Texas Observer
Truthout
TucsonSentinel.com
Vanity Fair
VICE Media
Vox
VTDigger
The Weather Channel Digital
WhoWhatWhy
Yale Climate Connections
Yale Environment 360
Croakey Health Media (Australia)
Eureka Street (Australia)
Revolve (Belgium)
My News Brasil (Brazil)
The Coast (Canada)
Corporate Knights (Canada)
Kingstonist News (Canada)
Maclean’s (Canada)
The National Observer (Canada)
Planet Friendly News (Canada)
The Sprawl (Canada)
Taproot Edmonton (Canada)
TVO (Canada)
The Tyee (Canada)
Ojo al Clima (Costa Rica)
K-News.dk (Denmark)
Solidaritet (Denmark)
Clean Energy Wire & Klimafakten.de (Germany)
Correctiv (Germany)
KlimaSocial (Germany)
Spektrum der Wissenschaft (Germany)
People’s Archive of Rural India (India)
The Wire (India)
Newsweek Japan (Japan)
Morocco World News (Morocco)
Newsroom (New Zealand)
The Spinoff (New Zealand)
Stuff (New Zealand)
Denník N (Slovakia)
The Daily Maverick (South Africa)
WOZ Die Wochenzeitung (Switzerland)
De Groene Amsterdammer (The Netherlands)
The Confidential Report (Togo)
NewsLab Turkey (Turkey)
BusinessGreen (The United Kingdom)
Climate News Network (The United Kingdom)
The Conversation (The United Kingdom)
Immediate Media (The United Kingdom)
Nature (The United Kingdom)
Physics World (The United Kingdom)

Television & Multimedia:
CBS News
Democracy Now
PBS NewsHour
The Years Project & Years Of Living Dangerously
WFAA (Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas)
WJCT (Jacksonville, Fla.)
WNET’s Peril and Promise (New York, N.Y.)
News18 (India)
RTÉ’s Brainstorm Project (Ireland)
TG1/RAI (Italy)
TVNZ’s 1 News (New Zealand)
Politically Aweh, TV news show (South Africa)
TV3 & Catalunya Ràdio (Spain)
Swedish Television / SVT (Sweden)

Radio & Podcasts:
Climate One (podcast)
Elemental: Covering Sustainability — regional collaborative of NPR stations in Denver (Colorado Public Radio); Phoenix; and Los Angeles.
Global GoalsCast (podcast)
Hudson Mohawk Radio Network (WOOC, WOOS, and WOOA, in Upstate N.Y.)
KALW (San Francisco Bay Area, Calif.)
KPCC (Los Angeles, Calif.)
KQED (San Francisco Bay Area, Calif.)
KUOW (Seattle, Wash.)
Marketplace Tech, by American Public Media
Nevada Public Radio
Science Friday, by WNYC Studios
The Allegheny Front, on WESA (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
WAMU (Washington, DC)
WBEZ (Chicago, Ill.)
WBUR (Boston, Mass.)
WFPL (Louisville, Ky.)
WHYY (Philadelphia, Pa.)
WNYC (New York, N.Y.)
WRAL (Raleigh, N.C.)
WWNO (New Orleans, La.)
The World, by PRI and the BBC (The United Kingdom)

Institutional
Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
Boston University
Climate Matters & Climate Central (George Mason University Center for Climate Communications, and Climate Communications)
Journalist’s Resource (The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, at Harvard University)
Solutions Journalism Network
Yale Climate Change & Health Initiative
Insper (Brazil)
blogdroiteuropéen (Europe)
Netzwerk Weitblick (Germany)
The University of Manchester (The United Kingdom)
The Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health (The United Kingdom)
Mount Royal University’s Journalism and Broadcast Media Studies programs (Canada)

Independent Journalists (outlets & affiliations listed for identification purposes only):
David Biello (TED Talks)
Rex Dalton (Formerly of Nature)
Mike Favetta (Founding meteorologist, WeatherPrep)
Dan Gardner
Paul Gross (Chief meteorologist, WDIV in Detroit, Mich.)
Stephen Leahy (Freelance biosphere journalist)
Bill McKibben

Mike Nelson (Chief meteorologist, Channel 7, in Denver)
Don Paul (Contributing meteorologist, The Buffalo News)Jake Price
Yereth Rosen (Formerly of the Anchorage Daily News)
Benjamin Ryan (The New York Times)
Dan Satterfield (Chief meteorologist, WBOC in Salisbury, Md.)
Peter Schwartzstein (freelance environmental & Middle East correspondent)
Alex Steffen
Isabel Seta (Brazil)
Sean Holman (Canada)
Tracy Sherlock (Freelance journalist, Canada)
Manka Behl (The Times of India, India)
Preeti Jha (India)
Marcello Rossi (Freelance environmental reporter, Italy)
Angelina Davydova (Freelance journalist, Russia)
Alex Thomson (Channel 4 News, The United Kingdom)
Michael Tatarski (Vietnam)

Mark Hertsgaard is investigative editor at large for The Nation.