Reporting on disasters: Media resources

This guide is designed for journalists who cover stories about risks in any sector: health, environment, artificial intelligence etc.

Fast-growing extreme heat risk is now the biggest killer among climate extreme events. But the scale and seriousness of the threat is hard to portray visually, and often images used do not represent the danger it poses.

This guide serves as a continuation of the 2022 Guide for Climate Change Journalists and compiles advice and best practices from journalists who have successfully navigated challenges related to climate change reporting.

Editors from 15 news organisations gathered at the World News Media Congress in Taipei to brainstorm ways to prepare their newsrooms and responses for unexpected disasters.

Climate misinformation is everywhere. This guide equips journalists to recognize and refute key myths and report the truth.

This study was conducted to understand how climate change is perceived in the media in Sub-Saharan Africa. It reflects on how journalists from different countries in the region often frame and report on climate change issues under varied contexts.

Climate is a relatively new beat with its own set of reporting opportunities and challenges. Here’s some advice to maximize your impact on the beat.

These seven steps can help to translate the risks reported in a research article into a much clearer and understandable form.

This guide aims to help journalists to accurately report extreme weather events in the context of a warming planet: how can you best inform your audiences about the effects of climate change on the extreme events we are increasingly experiencing ?

News stories about disasters should frame the impacts of environmental phenomena in meaningful ways.