Alan Strange is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades in the newsroom leading TV and Digital news teams. He started out at an independent production company in Belfast before joining Sky News in 2002, first as a producer covering global stories including conflicts and natural disasters, then as programme editor across Sky’s live and rolling television output. […]
We partner with the University of Exeter to publish original research that consistently tracks UK broadcast reporting on climate change, for the first time.
Using newly-developed AI technology, we track BBC, ITN, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky News TV and radio news bulletins and online news services.
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What we track
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The quantity of daily climate news reports.
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The effectiveness of climate reporting against a consistent set of criteria.
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Opportunities for a potential climate angle in neighbouring subjects such as economics or health.
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Accuracy in climate information reporting.
Insights
Dr Sylvia Hayes
Sylvia Hayes is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS) at the University of Exeter. Her research explores climate change communication, social media, visual imagery, photography/photojournalism, and digital media, using qualitative social science methodologies. In 2024, Sylvia was awarded a PhD from the University of Exeter titled “Strikingly Visual: […]
Alina Sandauer
Alina Sandauer is a content analyst with expertise in climate communications, energy policy engagement, and environmental data analysis. She holds a BSc in Environmental Geoscience from the University of Edinburgh and has worked across grassroots sustainability initiatives, educational media, and strategic digital communications. Before joining Climate News Tracker, Alina led research and outreach at a […]
Dr Lissa O’Reilly
Dr Lissa O’Reilly is a content analyst with expertise in data analysis, interdisciplinary research and public outreach. She holds a PhD in Ethology from Aberystwyth University, where her research explored how individual differences in behaviour influence learning in animals, combining ecological theory with advanced statistical analysis in collaboration with biologists and computer scientists. She was […]
Rosie Frost
Rosie Frost is a journalist and producer with several years of experience leading climate coverage across digital platforms. She played a key role in shaping the climate vertical ‘Euronews Green’, helping to lead the broadcaster’s coverage of UN climate summits. Her reporting spans climate attribution science, extreme weather events, human rights and international policy negotiations, […]
Dr Kevin Flanagan
Kevin is a career specialist in Natural Language Processing (NLP). He began by leading successful software projects that analysed large text bases for investigative intelligence purposes. By combining computational linguistics with foreign-language fluency, he went on to earn a PhD in Translation Technology, which led to his role as Principal Research Engineer at RWS, one […]