collective the size and reach of which is commensurate to the story and news agencies like bloomberg a.f.p. in france and getty images u.s. television networks and c.b.s. indias news 18 s v t in sweden and al-jazeera into asahi shimbun and bloody public are the most widely read newspapers in japan and italy respectively more than 300 media outlets on 6 continents with a combined audience of more than a 1000000000 people all brought together by 2 american publications the nation magazine and the columbia journalism review to talk about one issue climate change i thought there is a critical mass of journalists out there who want to be doing more and better climate coverage and that's what led to this project covering climate now and it has been remarkable to see the way that so many outlets have stepped up big outlets

small outlets radio t.v. print online and all over the world so much of the climate journalism that we do is about our country it's very insular and this is a global issue and especially a lot of the polluters cross borders today i was reading a story about 30 systems in philadelphia and we had the exact same problems in johannesburg here where we're so. this seemed like an opportunity to join up museums and tell our audience for a week that here is an issue that the whole world is dealing with. the consortium strategy was to have all of its members churning out a week's worth of environmental reporting leading up to september 23rd and the start of a major climate conference in new york city for participants like india's hindustan times and south africa's mail and guardian the core subject is the same the story is markedly different so instead after one of the big problems we have is we have such a big carbon footprint as

a nation right but if you look at india i balk at their emissions are extremely low they're lower lower than the world average power utility eskom. which is a petro chemicals company and a few other industries these are all valid because of the apartheid regime and build these incredibly looting industries that affect the communities that live next to them and they also have a huge impact on using carbon emissions it's good to put a human face to the climate change story and i think this is an opportunity to do that and at the same time track the conference in new york track it as effectively as possible look at what the government here is doing and what it plans to announce as impressive as the consortium's joint output has been the question begged is what took them so long the new york times had this page one story on a scientist working for nasa predicting much of what we are seeing today record heat waves droughts and sea level rises if global warming went on checked that

piece was written 31 years ago in 1908. what followed has been not just a failing of governments but of news media as well part of which is a continuing failure to connect the dots on us broadcast networks a.b.c. c.b.s. and n.b.c. all recently gorged on the coverage of hurricane dorian some of the windows here in the. over 8090 miles an hour but of the 216 segments they put to air over a one week stretch only one mentioned the possible causal context climate change one very few journalists have covered the climate change beat since that new york times article in 1908 the guardian's george monbiot is among them why has it taken this long and this concerted a lobbying effort to get the media outlets where they need to be on this story if you look at the billionaire press newspapers owned by billionaires they have

a very clear interest in not emphasizing climate breakdown. because doing so directly offends the commercial interests of the billionaire class as a whole in the broadcast media it's long been perceived as counter aspirational so they can have something on this stunning caribbean island and the programs they like to make are all about wonderful houses and amazing things you can buy a great holiday if you can go on. and climate. and environmental breakdown more generally the specter at the feast saying actually all this apparent progress is progress towards disaster there's been a lair of top executives in the media who have been not just indifferent to these issues but to really hostile to them i've met journalists from mexico from india from southeast asia who all tell me the same thing they themselves as journalists

the desperate to cover the issues but the senior figures within their organizations just keep nixing it keep saying that. because in the end money talks and when it does many media outlets listen and song go quiet since the paris climate agreement of 2016 the 5 biggest publicly traded or oil and gas companies have spent around a $1000000000.00 trying to shift the narrative on climate change some of that is spent on lobbying that happens out of the public eye but it also pays for the branded content advertising you may have seen on a newspaper's website and should the weather change yet again i'm asked to step in to keep the power flowing and the night shining or the ads that have grown common on the american airwaves slick feel good messaging it's getting the attention you deserve but the privacy you desire at a time when the standard of covering climate change is finally improving

advertising often works against the journalism and with media starved of revenue like never before news outlets face a dilemma take the ad money or leave it you have to rely on advertising so at the mail and guardian. we have a strict divide between the commercial side and the editorial side but we can veto adverts if we think they're not in line with our editorial policy or being allies basically so we do try and hold their adverts to a better standard but you know you you need money to do journalism sort of the moment this is where the money is i want to talk about something you wrote way back in 2007 the editorials urge us to cut our emissions the urge us to raise them do you see a tension between those 2 imperatives the tension is almost overwhelming sometimes i get a lot of complaints from my readers about it and it's right across. all the media

you get the advertisement splashing us towards what we know is disaster i would like to see media outlets ceasing to take advertising for oil companies for gas companies for cars for planes for holidays which require flights and i don't think that's too much to ask these are industries which. should be on the way out anyway. as impressive as the list of companies that took part in all that climate change coverage is the list does not tell the full story consider the organizations you do not see here the ones that chose not to take part for reasons ranging from the journalistic to the ideological to the merely commercial i did make efforts to reach out to most of the biggest u.s. news organizations to invite them to be part of covering climate now new york times

has declined washington post declined the wall street journal declined los angeles times declined c.n.n. declined n.b.c. news declined a.b.c. declined they did not want to look like they were part of a campaign or trying to push a certain agenda on their readers we differ with that point of view we think that it fundamentally misses a key aspect of journalism which is the trying to cut through the fog and tell citizens here's what you need to know about your world here's what you can do about it. we're looking at other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers you know actually rafi nina the media in egypt are severely restricted under the government there but there is one very public dissenting voice going after the president himself what can you tell us about him this person who's

speaking out richard is very well known in egypt he's a film and t.v. actor his name is muhammad ali and over the past few weeks he's been posting numerous half hour long video on facebook and you tube and he's doing it from spain . well actually it's a. game about. what it means but it's not. now it's not surprising i really felt he had to leave egypt in order to see some of the things he's saying he's gone where few others in egypt would dare to go. i knew he had extensive dealings with the egyptian military and says he saw up close clear cases of corruption and embezzlement by president sisi his wife and their inner circle these videos richard have been going crazy online they've been getting millions of views and many of those views are within egypt so how are the egyptian media dealing with this given that criticism of the president there is such a no no well these videos have been seen as so incendiary that president himself came out to respond he was at a conference in cairo when he spoke about allegations. will tell you.

how to close a deal with a totally. we haven't seen such a public challenge against president sisi before now that's in part due to the fact that the suppression and targeting of independent journalism has been so effective among the hundreds of journalists who are currently in jail in egypt there is as on mahmoud hussain who's been held without any charge for more than a 1000 days all right the other story we're looking at is in great britain the continuing chaos over brock's it and david cameron the prime minister who set this whole process off with that referendum called 3 years ago decides to choose this particular moment to launch a publicity tour yeah i mean cameron's been all over the british waves and he's promoting his autobiography. it was the moment he was finally in front of the camera and under the spotlight with the initial action collapse and so it came to

an end very quickly and i hated leaving the job that i love serving the country and he's appeared on just about any t.v. or radio platform that will have him and is even the subject of a 2 part b.b.c. documentary on his time in office the candidate is the prime minister who called that referendum on britain's membership of the e.u. even though he said he himself is and he brags that history probably won't treat him kindly but the british media largely have helping him sell copies of his book which haven't exactly been flying off the shelves in the u.k. ok thanks mina. consider what you know or think you know about the favelas of rio de janeiro those sprawling hillside communities that are as synonymous with rio as the city's iconic beaches perhaps you see fellas as the brazilian media and many international news outlets have depicted them lawless communities virtual no go zones for police where the only realistic solution is a security show of force that prevailing view that the favelas need to be brought

under control plays well for 2 politicians in particular president joe your boss a narrow and rio's governor wilson vets all both have given police more authority to use lethal force in the favelas through an ongoing shoot to kill policy and they routinely defend officers who kill on the job however there is an alternative media narrative coming out of the favelas that is emerged through community based journalistic collectives they use video footage posted on social media to document police violence and security abuses to counter the dominant mainstream media narrative on one of brazil's most important stories the listening post often now on 2 of those collectives topple and not a.v. and the work they do. they begin early in the morning when the for bella is asleep getting ready for

police raids that come without warning and turned resident into hostages in their own time the middle sold the 1st one of my days of a helicopter gunship it's very disturbing. that you speak with residents from all over the complex people give guidance as a method of defense be careful when going to such and such street the police tank is there with thank you write the information and decide where to share and when you. i'm told one of those was able to turn the pavelec into a war zone and we share information in order to minimize the damage to people's lives not only physical damage but psychological too which is more serious for the residents our facebook page works as an information tool so they can feel saying there's a there's a lot of time for thurso this is quality of the importance of these media collected

it's easy mets mainly to fill a void left by the mass media and why is that because the press doesn't into this because these are territories with the state is not the person so if a thought is going to start with something. they are the full bellows eyes an egg. media collectives like my t.v. v.m. pop will have to fill an information void. one that's especially dangerous during the net daily military raids in the bad the collective the photos videos and information in real time you can share them with residents on facebook and what's. the decades really security forces have operated with almost total impunity in the bad focus of the focused religious people go for it you know what you're going to tell someone else opening day or look at us a little bit about this is that you want to facing off with residents occupying and

invading hun. but not without pushback from the media collective well it's reading listlessly the scene there was several instances where we used our videos to get justice there was the case of it why do dishes lose a 10 year old boy who was shot by a soldier the 1st thing the residents did was called up where we wanted our video to serve as evidence of the crime scenes to avoid someone moving the body or placing a gun in the child's hand the policeman wouldn't allow us in the area but we are from the favela the favela people have their own resources. another resident let us go up on his roof and we filmed everything from above a footage was used by the public defender in eduardo's case and it made news across the country. rio's favelas are more than 100 years old they are impoverished communities where the state has historically

showing little interest in residents while being in the 980 s. the drug trade pushed its way into the balance trapping the population that between brutal warring gangs and police forces with a reputation for violent or brazil's president jaya both the novels and rio's governor wilson both support more extreme action. while there is also the us regarding who was she was what is the some of the usual that you will go to school she goes to the source. the governor of recently took part in a police operation. because. residents a helicopter is used to fire indiscriminately and launch grenades on the ballot. rio's militarized security forces now kill an average of 5 people dead

a. brazil of its wall government officials say a war on drugs that inside the favelas feels more like a war on the pole. was when they use the war metaphor to justify this kind of action they forget that in a war there's a ceasefire a curfew or a series of actions that should prevent the war becoming a genocide but both are not all as presidents and it's all israel's gov we have a synchrony of a state genocide policy we have a governor who wants to be rambo that was. my me i said meet you by chips and it needs to be said well that's all the plan. the security policy in which the excess is measured by the number of bodies left on the floor it's clear how this government's focus is on barbarism. how can anyone and violent if you increase the number of people killed rios police have been more lethal than during a 5 government stick came before so how can anyone solve security issues if no one

invests in inclusion policies police operations have always existed in the for values death has always existed unfortunately that's all the fellows are used for they only see the favelas through the sights of their rifles. or both of the flu. brazil's mainstream media have a troubled relationship with the boys or for you to just say get a hold the favela the horse sing and all he would be if the majority of brazilians and the vast majority of the people of the ballots are of african descent the faces in the media and on the airwaves are disproportionately white when the media do report on the favelas it's for all the wrong reasons but. i must draw this is joyous the terminology can be problematic varies by his scumbag

ideas it. may be. an official voices are often privileged over voices from within the favela. many journalists have also embedded with security forces and train with a valid in time one to locals have a cab ride out big skull. however the dangers for journalists covering this beat are rails in 2002 to me a reporter from the largest t.v. network. with tortured to death in what was called a macabre ritual of violence.