| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/07/27, 9:28 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Media Matters for America study follows blog by former agency reporter about appointment of Paul Ingrassia.
A Media Matters study finds that Reuters' coverage of climate change declined by nearly 50 percent under the regime of the current managing editor, lending credence to a former reporter's claim
that a "climate of fear" has gripped the agency.
David Fogarty, a former Reuters climate change correspondent, wrote that Managing Editor Paul Ingrassia, then serving as deputy editor-in-chief, identified himself as "a climate change sceptic" in
2012. As time went on, Fogarty alleged, "getting any climate change-themed story published got harder," as some desk editors "agonised" over decisions and allowed articles to become mired in
bureaucracy. Eventually, amid a "climate of fear," Fogarty's role was
"abolished."
An earlier report published by The Baron, an independent site that caters to current and
former Reuters employees, similarly noted that in recent years the news service has been steered in a "new direction" in its climate change coverage, as evidenced by decreased attention, in-print "skepticism" and the reassignment of regional environment correspondents to other beats.
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