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Professor of Practice and Practitioner Fellow at UVA's Environmental Institute, Chris Mooney, explores how journalistic narratives work to illuminate the problem of climate change and to amplify concern about the state of the planet. It will emphasize how climate data can aid in the search for narrative, acknowledging the challenge but also the potency of a data-driven narrative approach.
Chris Mooney is Professor of Practice and Practitioner Fellow at the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. A journalist for over two decades, from 2014 through mid-2024, Mooney worked at the Washington Post, where his team’s data journalism project “2°C: Beyond the Limit” won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 2020. At UVA, Mooney teaches classes on environmental data journalism and environmental science communication.
