When Broadcast News Abandons the Climate Beat, Movement Media Steps In | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

When Broadcast News Abandons the Climate Beat, Movement Media Steps In | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Getty Images For Unsplash+ In 2025, corporate broadcast networks aired just eight hours of climate coverage across an entire year—a 35 percent drop from the year before—according to a new analysis by Media Matters for America. The decline came even as climate disasters intensified across the United States and federal climate policy entered a period of aggressive rollbacks. Climate justice appeared in only 2 percent of segments, fossil fuels in 8…