CLIMATE SKEPTIC COMPROMISING REUTERS REPORTING

Reuters Climate Change Coverage Declined Significantly After "Skeptic" Editor Joined; New Analysis Backs Whistleblower's Claims

Max Greenberg, July 23, 2013 (Media Matters)

“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 [and Fogarty was dismissed]…” click here for more

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