Pitches for your reported story are due today, March 7.

Next week, March 14, we will be visited by guest speaker Samantha Maldonado.

Case study presentations begin next week, March 14. You can sign up for a time slot here. First come, first served, with up to four students presenting per class. (Students will give a PowerPoint presentation describing an important climate change topic and how it’s been covered in recent years. This should be a 15-minute presentation that ends in a discussion question to engage the class.) To make sure you have enough stories and material to draw on for a presentation, you might want to pick a topic that is broad enough to have generated a fair amount of recurring coverage. So for instance, you could choose something like the California wildfires; or the United Nations’ role in brokering climate agreements over the years; or climate migration in one of the worst-hit countries (Bangladesh or Ethiopia, for instance); urban planning in a city that is increasingly under threat, like Miami; the impact on the coffee industry around the world, both current and projected; or climate activist movements among younger generations, led by people like Greta Thunberg. Feel free to play video or radio clips in addition to showing us written news stories. Alternatively, you can also choose to do a deep dive on an individual news story, like the example Prof. Zarnoch gave.

Reported stories will be due March 28. You will publish them here on the class blog. At least one photo should accompany your story. They should be about 600 words long, with direct quotes from at least three sources.