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Climate Matters: A 2020 Census Survey of Society of Environmental Journalists Members

Download the Report This report provides the initial findings from an online census survey of Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) members. SEJ is the only North American membership association of professional journalists dedicated to enhancing and extending...

Climate Matters: A 2020 Census Survey of Television Weathercasters in the United States

Download the Report This report provides the initial findings from an online census survey of U.S.-based television weathercasters. The survey was conducted to gain insights for the continued refinement of Climate Matters, a National Science Foundation-funded...

A 2017 national survey of broadcast meteorologists

Broadcast meteorologists are increasingly playing an important role across America as trusted, local climate change educators. Through our Climate Matters partnership—with Climate Central, the American Meteorological Society, NASA, NOAA and Yale—we provide broadcast...

TV Meteorologists as Local Climate Change Educators

Five years ago – in partnership with Climate Central and WLTX (Columbia, SC) – we tested the premise that if TV weathercasters educate their viewers about the local relevance of global climate change, it will make a difference. Indeed it did: viewers learned; they...

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