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SUMMARY:Uncertain Climate: Risk in the Media - Roger Harrabin\, BBC Chief 
 environmental analyst
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CONTACT:Madeleine Geddes-Barton
DESCRIPTION:Roger Harrabin is the BBC’s Environment Analyst\, and one of
  the world’s senior journalists on the environment and energy. He has tr
 avelled widely reporting on environment and energy and interviewed many le
 ading figures including Margaret Thatcher\, Tony Blair\,[1] Al Gore\, John
  Kerry\, Ban Ki-Moon\, James Lovelock\, Sonia Gandhi\, Gordon Brown and Bj
 orn Lomborg. He is a Visiting Fellow at Green Templeton College\, Oxford a
 nd an Associate Press Fellow at Wolfson College\, Cambridge. \n\nHarrabin'
 s reporting is dominated by risk issues\, and he has\, in the past been\, 
 critical of the Media's approach to reporting risk. He states that often m
 ajor risk issues fail to fit news criteria of novelty\, drama\, conflict\,
  personality and pictures. This leads the media to have given the wrong le
 vel of prominence to a range of risks including MMR\, dirty bombs\, child 
 abduction\, nuclear power and genetic modification. He argues that the med
 ia should find new ways of exploring long-term risk issues like preventive
  health and security of water\, food\, energy and climate. \n\nHarrabin ha
 s also worked in a risk advisory role at the BBC. He co-wrote the BBC’s 
 guidance on reporting on Risk which calls for news instincts to be tempere
 d by statistical perspective. Whilst on sabbatical at Wolfson College\, Ca
 mbridge Harrabin set up the Cambridge Media and Environment Programme (CME
 P) with Dr Joe Smith\, now of the Open University. They worked in partners
 hip with other BBC staff organising seminars with a broad range of views t
 o stimulate discussion of the BBC's coverage of global Risk issues coverin
 g the environment\, economics\, and society.\n\nIn Cambridge on the 9th Ro
 ger Harrabin will give a frank\, half-hour talk on the challenges of repor
 ting climate change\, which will be followed by a 45 minute question and a
 nswer session. \n\nAll are welcome to attend\, but do contact me if you wo
 uld like to reserve a seat. Directions to the Coleridge Room will be sign 
 posted from Jesus college porters lodge.\n\n
LOCATION: The Coleridge Room\, Jesus College\, Cambridge
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