Governments across the world are clamping down on journalists covering environmental problems. Journalists are being murdered but also silenced through jailing, torture, threats, online harassment, bombings of offices, legal actions and hacking. Journalists must be free to report on the extreme weather events and other signs of a warming planet. (Columbia Journalism Review, April 14, 2022, by Giles Trendle)
Reporters Without Borders published a comprehensive report,”Hostile Climate for Environmental Journalists,” about the threats to journalists in 2015 and since then there has been scant progress in making the world safe for those reporting on climate.
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