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The Guardian
03-07-2025
- Climate
- The Guardian
Newsroom edition: the perils of covering extreme weather during the climate crisis
This week headlines warned of a 'bomb cyclone' forming on the Australian east coast. However, the Bureau of Meteorology has stopped short of using that terminology in media commentary and has not officially called this week's event anything other than a 'vigorous' coastal low. But, the severe weather system did wreak havoc on some parts of the coastline, causing flooding, damage to properties and flight cancellations. Nour Haydar speaks with head of newsroom Mike Ticher and deputy editor Patrick Keneally about why language matters and how crucial it is to refer to the climate crisis when covering extreme weather
The Guardian
08-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Newsroom edition: the Trump effect, the Coalition's bad campaign, and are we over interpreting the election results?
As the dust settles on the federal election, hard lessons for the losers have dominated the headlines. Did the Coalition run a bad campaign that failed to connect with voters? Or did Australians reject Dutton's Trump-style politics? What should we make of the Greens losing so many seats? And is there a danger in over-interpreting election results? Bridie Jabour talks to editor Lenore Taylor, deputy editor Patrick Keneally and national news editor Josephine Tovey about why the lessons learned from this election are not as simple as they seem
