because of very high covid rates in the uk. the racism row at yorkshire county cricket club major sponsors withdraw their support over the way former player azeem rafiq was treated. and in the last few minutes, the south african writer has won the booker prize for his novel the promise. good evening, and welcome to bbc news. a conservative mp who was found to have broken lobbying rules won t be suspended for now after mps narrowly voted to look at an overhaul of their disciplinary process. an investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog had ruled that former minister owen paterson should be suspended for six weeks for repeatedly lobbying ministers and officials for two companies paying him more than £100,000 a year. but today s vote means his suspension is halted for now. downing street insists the move is about the fairness of the system, not one individual case. but labour called it an absolute disgrace and accused the government of breaking and then remaking
editor at unherd. and wolfgang blau is the former global chief operating officer of conde nast but he s now the co founder of the oxford climate journalism network. wolfgang, i gather you feel so strongly about climate change that you basically paused your career to educate yourself? it s true, kate. it suddenly came to that moment where i realised this is notjust a topic. this is so huge in every single area ofjournalism sports, culture, notjust news or science journalism would be changed. and i felt i had to take a proper time out to really at least try and understand what this is all about. well, welcome to you all. let s look first at how the media s approach to climate change has a evolved over the last decade or so. tom, let s start with you you re the science editor at unherd, prior to that you wrote about science at buzzfeed before that, you were at the telegraph. how have things changed in that time? well, i mean, most prominently, it s become a much bigger a
for the media show. hello. heat pumps, decarbonisation, the paris agreement, net zero. with less than two weeks to go until cop26, we re being deluged with detail and jargon. but how much do you actually understand about climate change? do you even know what cop actually stands for? it s conference of the parties, if you don t. today, we re asking what role the media has in educating us about climate change. maybe you feel hectored, rather than informed. or maybe you think the media isn t going far enough. if we now face an existential crisis, should journalists dispense with the notion of objectivity and become activists in the fight to save the planet? let me introduce our panel. daniela chiaretti is environment reporter at brazil s biggest financial newspaper, valor economico. natasha clark is the environment correspondent for the sun. tom chivers is the science editor at unherd. and wolfgang blau is the former global chief operating officer of conde nast but he s now th
daniela chiaretti is environment reporter at brazil s biggest financial newspaper, valour economico. natasha clark is the environment correspondent for the sun. tom chivers is the science editor at unherd. and wolfgang blau is the former global chief operating officer of conde nast but he s now the co founder of the oxford climatejournalism network. wolfgang, i gather you feel so strongly about climate change that you basically paused your career to educate yourself? it s true, kate. it suddenly came to that moment where i realised this is notjust a topic. this is so huge in every single area ofjournalism sports, culture, notjust news or science journalism would be changed. and i felt i had to take a proper time out to really at least try and understand what this is all about. well, welcome to you all. let s look first at how the media s approach to climate change has evolved over the last decade or so. tom, let s start with you you re the science editor at unherd, prio
now on bbc news, it s time for the media show with katie razzall. hello. heat pumps, decarbonisation, the paris agreement, net zero. with less than two weeks to go until cop26, we are being deluged with detail and jargon. but how much do you actually understand about climate change? do you even know what cop actually stands for? it s conference of the parties, if you don t. today, we re asking what role the media has in educating us about climate change. maybe you feel hectored, rather than informed. or maybe you think the media isn t going far enough. if we now face an existential crisis, should journalists dispense with the notion of objectivity and become activists in the fight to save the planet? let me introduce our panel. daniela chiaretti is environment reporter at brazil s biggest financial newspaper, valor economico. natasha clark is the environment correspondent for the sun. tom chivers is the science editor at unherd. and wolfgang blau is the former global chief op