Last year, Brazil hosted the United Nations climate conference. This year, as voters prepare to head to the polls in October, many are counting on candidates to confront the mounting global climate threats. And meanwhile, communities across the country are bracing for a powerful El Niño phenomenon that could bring severe drought to some regions and devastating floods to others.
Covering the challenges of changing climate requires journalists who are specialized in the environment and know how to analyze climate data, said Daniel Nardin, the chief executive of Amazônia Vox, during a roundtable hosted by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas on May 26.
“We tend to focus heavily on human-interest stories, but we also need that robustness – that solid foundation – that data journalism provides,” Nardin told participants at the “Inside the Newsroom: How to use data to cover climate change” roundtable.
The conversation with Nardin, who moderated the event, is now available on the Knight Center’s YouTube page and also featured:
These journalists explained how data helped them cover the impacts of extreme weather events on the most vulnerable in the Amazon, potential risks for Rio de Janeiro’s residents in the event of extreme rainfall and logging on farmland in the Amazon.
A companion roundtable in Spanish will be held on Thursday, May 28, at 11:30 a.m. CDT (Find your local time here). Registration is required but free.
The roundtables are part of the Knight Center’s “Inside the Newsroom” series on innovation and opportunities in journalism across Latin America.
