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Can Journalists Save the Planet?​

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MIT Communications Forum
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

An [MIT Communications Forum](https://commforum.mit.edu/) You heard news in 2019 about more epic forest fires, of the loss of many of the oceans coral reefs and of more glaciers falling into the sea. As Planet Earth reaches the global warming brink, journalists are striving to translate the impact of climate change and hold the powerful accountable. Meet two of them in this forum hosted at MIT: Propublica's Lisa Song and The New York Times' Kendra Pierre-Louis discuss the media’s role in illuminating environmental issues, promoting environmental justice and ethics, and the future of climate journalism. Beth Daley, Editor and General Manager for [The Conversation](https://theconversation.com/us), moderates. Photo: [National Park Service,](https://www.nps.gov/dena/blogs/mount-russell-patrol-report-part-two.htm) Mountaineering ranger on mountaineering patrol on the remote Dall Glacier in the western Alaska Range.

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Beth Daley
Beth Daley took the lead as Editor and General Manager at The Conversation in March 2019. Prior to that, Daley covered the environment, science and education at NECIR and Inside Climte. For almost two decades Daley covered the environment for The Boston Globe and won numerous awards for her work including being named a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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Kendra Pierre-Louis
Kendra Pierre-Louis is a journalist covering climate change for _The New York Times_. Her writing, which includes the book “Green Washed: Why We Can't Buy Our Way to a Green Planet,” focuses on science with an emphasis on the relationship between humans and our environment.
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Lisa Song
Lisa Song is a reporter for _Propublica_. She covers the environment, energy and climate change. Song joined ProPublica in 2017 after six years at InsideClimate News, where she covered climate science and environmental health. She was part of the reporting team that revealed Exxon’s shift from conducting global warming research to supporting climate denial, a series that was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for public service. From 2013-2014 she reported extensively on air pollution from Texas’ oil and gas boom as part of a collaboration between several newsrooms. Lisa is a co-author of “The Dilbit Disaster,” which won a Pulitzer for national reporting. She has degrees in earth science and science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [Follow Lisa on Twitter.](https://twitter.com/lisalsong)
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