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A new generation of intrepid news organizations is rising across Europe – one that is strongly committed to serving its audience and democracy alike through public interest journalism. A new report by Netzwerk Recherche outlines this emerging innovative media scene and takes a closer look at how this New Sector reclaims journalistic terrain that traditional media has abandoned.
What follows is a collection of sea level rise stories representing either unique investigative work or interesting ways of approaching sea level rise stories. This list is categorized by topic, though given the wide-ranging impact of sea level rise, a story about ecological loss often morphs into stories about economics, migration, and other topics.
The dramatic effects of sea level rise can be visualized in a variety of ways. For emotional appeal, digitally modified photos can show how rising water levels might affect treasured monuments and buildings.
That there’s a climate change story on every beat is by now a common observation, but it’s one amply demonstrated by the diversity of stories written about sea level rise. In this section, GIJN will explore the many possibilities for covering this emerging problem.
Writing about sea level rise doesn’t necessarily require using historic data or scientific projections, although such information is available for coastal locations worldwide. The practical effects are already visible and affecting people’s lives.
The warnings are stark. “It is virtually certain that global mean sea level will continue to rise over the 21st century,” wrote scientists in the August 2021 report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the key UN scientific body focusing on this crisis.
Sea levels are rising because of global warming. The scientific evidence at this point is indisputable, and the consequences are likely severe.
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This guide was written by GIJN’s Resource Center senior advisor, Toby McIntosh. It was edited by Nikolia Apostolou, Laura Dixon, and Reed Richardson, with fact-checking by Miranda Woolen.
At a recent GIJN online workshop, open source research expert Henk van Ess offered key tips and techniques for optimizing the use of Google search in your investigations.
This week’s Top 10 in Data Journalism digs into noise pollution in megacities, the trade in stolen Ukrainian grain, Russian state propaganda about its invasion, abortion access in the United States, and devastating floods in Australia.
In this edition of GIJN Toolbox, we examine the latest advancements from the IRE22 conference on data extraction and optical character recognition (OCR) tools for turning unwieldy documents into searchable spreadsheets.
