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Jill Hopke

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  • Associate Professor, DePaul University
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Associate Professor @DePaulU + freelance writing about the future of climate journalism. 🌱 #climatehope Mastodon: @jillhopke@mas.to

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Freelance climate writer covering the future of climate journalism + Associate Professor of Journalism at DePaul University. 🌱 #climatehope

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Battling a Climate Change Backlash - Nieman Reports

Battling a Climate Change Backlash - Nieman Reports

Jill Hopke's recommendations on how to improve reporting on extreme weather in an age of denialism and cutbac…

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Climate misinformation is rife on social media - and poised to get worse

Climate misinformation is rife on social media - and poised to get worse

Meta's decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or…

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Journalists Should Share Their Own Climate Disasters | Nieman Reports

Journalists Should Share Their Own Climate Disasters | Nieman Reports

It's an important step in helping audiences to understand what's at stake

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Everyone Is a Climate Reporter Now | Nieman Reports

Everyone Is a Climate Reporter Now | Nieman Reports

For many news organizations, especially local ones, climate coverage is still seen as separate and distinct f…

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Teaching climate hope as students envision a no-carbon 2050 future " Yale Climate Connections

Teaching climate hope as students envision a no-carbon 2050 future " Yale Climate Connections

It has been easy to despair about climate change given a summer of relentless heat waves, wildfires, and cata…

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On Twitter, fossil fuel companies' climate misinformation is subtle - here's what I'm seeing duri...

On Twitter, fossil fuel companies' climate misinformation is subtle - here's what I'm seeing duri...

Misinformation about climate change has been spreading in other ways, and social media companies have been re…

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What Is Happening to Climate Journalism?

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By Suzannah Evans Comfort, Jill Hopke
| Nieman Reports Verified
“The planet is overheating,” read a recent headline from Grist, the long-running environment-focused news organization. “Why is the news looking away?” Grist reported a 38% reduction in climate coverage by the media worldwide in 2025 since a high-water mark in 2021, using data from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Additionally, Media Matters for America has found a 35% decrease in climate-related airtime on U.S. broadcast channels CBS, ABC, and NBC since 2024.
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Battling a Climate Change Backlash

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By Jill Hopke
| Nieman Reports Verified
The United States is radically downsizing environmental and climate investments, along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), at a time when climate-fueled disasters are on the rise. In 2024, damages from major disasters around the country totaled $182.7 billion dollars, according to the National and Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Journalists were able to report on that because the federal government provided data through a key NOAA database.
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Climate Change Reporting and Green Energy Misdirection: U.S. Media Coverage of the 2021 Texas Blackouts during Winter Storm Uri

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By Jill Hopke
| ametsoc.org
Keywords: Social Science; Extreme events; Communications/decision making; Renewable energy 1. Introduction Human-driven climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events (Estrada et al. 2023). Here, I present a case study of U.S. media coverage during a cold spell that affected the majority of the mainland United States in early 2021, with daily highs and lows far below average, unofficially dubbed Winter Storm Uri by The Weather Channel (Brackett 2021).
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