Andrew McCormick 🐑

Journalist | Stories @NYTimes, @TheAtlantic, @TheNation & @CJR | DepDir @CoveringClimate & Adjunct @columbiajourn | Frmr @USNavy, via Louisville, Ky.

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What was it like to report on America’s longest war?

For a @CJR special report, I spoke with with @Kathygannon, @sebastianjunger, @AtiaAbawi, @sorayanelson, @LauraKingLAT, @AzmatZahra, @TBowmanNPR & @mattaikins. Their reflections: https://t.co/bPZWYWUmHT

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📸 Photojournalists and photo editors! Join us for a Talking Shop webinar this Thursday to discuss the role of images in climate coverage. Pictures are often the first—and sometimes only—exposure audiences have to a story, making it essential that climate visuals be powerful & accurate https://t.co/pVUDCb678i

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Join leading journalists + climate experts from around the 🌎 for an unprecedented conversation about how to cover the climate crisis in ways that drive attention + impact while highlighting solutions + justice.

Register Now: https://t.co/6TU2UO3Phq

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📣 Journalists! Join us Thursday, 7/13, for a press briefing co-hosted by @CAADcoalition on spotting mis/disinformation climate campaigns, covering them without amplifying the lies, and tips for inoculating readers against misinformation. RSVP: https://t.co/d2o2Y2qWOg

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📣 Announcing the journalists and media outlets from around the world selected as finalists for the 3rd-annual Covering Climate Now Climate Journalism Awards! 🧵 #CCNowAwards

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🧵Next week, we’re holding a press briefing about decarbonization. We’ll be joined by:

➡️@EJinAction, Executive VP, @NWF
➡️Souparna Lahiri, Senior Climate & Biodiversity Policy Advisor, @GFC_forests
➡️@Kelly_Levin_, Chief of Science, Data, and Systems Change, @BezosEarthFund

https://t.co/UO05Qnow6v

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Join us Thurs., March 16, at 12pm ET for a #TalkingShop on the Inflation Reduction Act's implementation and climate implications with Lori Lodes, @JigarShahDC, and Peggy Shepard.

RSVP here: https://t.co/0Ra8WZjs7w

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The full issue, in Korean, is here: https://t.co/kKO9nHugk2

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Pleased to contribute, on behalf of @CoveringClimate, to the Korea Press Foundation's Feb issue of 'Newspaper & Broadcasting' magazine, which digs into how journalists everywhere are covering the climate story and how that coverage might improve. Via @cjr: https://t.co/xYNYWr7cVC

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Join us Thursday, Jan. 19, at 12pm ET for a #TalkingShop co-hosted with @soljourn about how to do climate solutions reporting. @swati_sanyal_t and @FaraWarner will be your trainers! Register: https://t.co/Rkq6jjHHxJ

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In November, #CCNow's @AndrewMcCormck talked to 5 journalists in the Global South about what #climatejustice means to them—and what that might entail for their northern colleagues. #COP27 is over, but their reflections remain a can't-miss @CJR resource 🧵
https://t.co/5mACVL1eY0

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Join us Thursday, Jan. 12, at 12pm ET for our first #TalkingShop of the year: an overview of the biggest climate stories of 2022, and what they mean for the climate in 2023, with @SaleemulHuq, @BillMcKibben and Dr. Marcia Rocha https://t.co/5ytl10Z8qa

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1/ spoke to columbia journalism review about how journalists can cover climate better and in a nutshell:
-read the science
-state facts instead of framing them as opinions
-highlight hypocrisy
-speak more simply
-be critical of solutions but not dismissive
https://t.co/I0COAdRF6e

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For @CJR, we spoke with @brankobrkic, EIC of South Africa’s @dailymaverick, about “20Twenties: Eve of Destruction,” an adaptation of a Vietnam-era protest anthem that calls attention to the climate crisis. Read it and watch the EXCELLENT music video here:

https://t.co/vUtgylizrX

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The climate links to #WorldCup2022 paint a vivid picture of how a warming planet is transforming sports. For journalists, it’s a can’t-miss opportunity to communicate the gravity and scope of the climate problem. For @CJR, via @CoveringClimate:
https://t.co/rLPNOYINGa

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With a few critical days left at #COP27, where should journalists be focusing?

Join CCNow's @MekdelaMaskal & @AndrewMcCormck with:
@RyanBachoo - @ClimateTracking
@jkingy - @ISDGlobal
@LauraMillanL - @climate
@zohatunio - @insideclimate

& cohost @CJR https://t.co/heg5OZTvEh

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📢Last week, we launched our State of Climate Journalism survey!

Your reflections are crucial to understanding where climate journalism is today, & how it can evolve. We'll share results widely & use them to plan the next stage of our work.

Takes <5min! https://t.co/UYMuwFhSa8

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@BDHerzinger You'll always be 15k in my heart.

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Thanks @AndrewMcCormck for mentioning the @risj_oxford OCJN in this story about climate justice + reporting.

Lots to learn from @HamidMirPAK, @iabano, @XilenaPinedo, @DavidCASIMIR5 and @omayasosa

https://t.co/fysleVpltT

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Thanks @AndrewMcCormck for acknowledging our hard work.

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For @CJR, @andrewmccormck spoke with five journalists in the Global South — from Pakistan, the Philippines, Mauritius, Puerto Rico, and Peru — about what climate justice means to them, at #COP27 and beyond.🧵
https://t.co/5mACVL1MNy