Coverage of Climate Change Drops in The New York Times

December 16, 2013- Ever since The New York Times eliminated its green blog on climate change and dismantled its special reporting unit on the environment earlier this year, both “the quantity” and “the amount of deep, enterprising coverage of climate change in the Times” has dropped, wrote Margaret Sullivan, the New York Times public editor, in a recent piece.

When the Times dropped those departments, the newspaper had said it was reintegrating green reporting into the broader paper and vowed that its commitment to both topics would remain strong, the Huffington Post reports.

Observers have worried that the Times was pulling back on green topics at a time when climate change coverage could be more important than ever.

“The editors of the Times have perhaps forgotten that they work on an island, and that the entrance to their building is not too far above sea level,” one editor wrote in March.

Sullivan said that new environmental reporters were being hired, but she added that the Times had been “fragmented, if not rudderless” in its handling of the beat.

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