A survey of nearly 600 broadcast meteorologists revealed that just over half believe global warming is real; even fewer believe humans are behind it. Ira Flatow and guests discuss how TV ...
For many years, as the science of human-caused climate change grew ever clearer, TV meteorologists avoided discussing the topic on air. Today, many weathercasters bring up climate change regularly. By ...
Clockwise starting at top left: Elisa Raffa (KOLR10/KOZL), Keith Carson (WLBZ/WCSH), Jorge Torres (KOB-TV), Heather Waldman (WGRZ). This story originally appeared in The Guardian. It is republished ...
FAIRFAX, Va., March 29, 2010—In a time when only a handful of TV news stations employ a dedicated science reporter, TV weathercasters may seem like the logical people to fill that role, and in many ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell rang an old bell in early December when he called out TV weathercasters for ...
In 2024, we’ll turn to television meteorologists to better understand how to restore the public’s trust in news. At a time when trust in news is approaching historic lows, many Americans across ...
Even if you did know the address of Ed Maibach’s office, you could walk right past it without a second thought. It’s in an anonymous-­looking building in a perfectly ordinary stretch of the Virginia ...
One month after MBC abolished weathercasters, a "weather analyst" took over the news segment. On the 3rd, in MBC's Newsdesk weather segment, weather analyst Yoon Tae-gu appeared to introduce the total ...
Handing out pink slips to dozens of beloved small-market local TV news weathercasters would be ill-advised even in the best of times. But to do it right as unpredictable and dangerous weather ...
Tom Skilling, the longtime WGN-TV chief meteorologist, announced his retirement Thursday during the evening news. An always sunny presence, whatever the weather in Chicago, Skilling delivered a stormy ...