Eric Pooley

Eric Pooley is a contributor for Time magazine. Pooley has been managing editor of Fortune, editor of Time Europe, and in 2001–2 was national editor of Time. Before that, he was Time‘s chief political correspondent. In 1996, as Time‘s White House correspondent, Pooley won the Gerald Ford Prize for Excellence in Reporting for his coverage of the Clinton administration. Previously, Pooley had a 12-year career at New York magazine as columnist, writer and senior editor. Pooley is researching and writing a book about the politics and economics of climate change. He was a Kalb Fellow at the Shorenstein Center and focused on press coverage of the climate-change issue.

How News Outlets Factchecked the U.S. Chamber’s Flawed Clean Power Plan Numbers

August 12, 2015

August 12, 2015 — The Union of Concerned Scientists referenced a paper written by Eric Pooley (Kalb Fellow, fall 2008), which provides methodology for reporting on suspect economic claims. Pooley is currently senior vice president for strategy and communications at the Environmental Defense Fund. Read his full paper, How Much Would You Pay to Save

Pooley: States, corporations can lead the way on U.S. climate action

October 20, 2010

October 21, 2010 — When Eric Pooley started writing The Climate War three years ago, he didn’t think the book was going to be a “whodunit.” At the time, he recalled, the climate-change debate was shifting from scientific questions to matters of politics and economics — “‘Is this real?’ to ‘What the heck are we

Panel: Climate coverage difficult, but journalists shouldn’t opt out

March 4, 2010

March 4, 2010 — Not so long ago it appeared that a U.S. cap-and-trade bill was well on its way to becoming reality. But then came the “climategate” emails and increased political opposition, particularly in the Senate, to taking action. While public worries over the impacts of climate change had once been climbing, they’ve since

How Much Would You Pay to Save the Planet? The American Press and the Economics of Climate Change

January 9, 2009

Eric Pooley Kalb Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Fall 2008 Contributor at Time Magazine Read the full paper (PDF). Background In How Much Would You Pay to Save the Planet? The American Press and the Economics of Climate Change, a discussion paper researched and written during the Shorenstein Center’s fall 2008 semester, Fellow Eric Pooley looked at coverage

How News Outlets Factchecked the U.S. Chamber’s Flawed Clean Power Plan Numbers

August 12, 2015

August 12, 2015 — The Union of Concerned Scientists referenced a paper written by Eric Pooley (Kalb Fellow, fall 2008), which provides methodology for reporting on suspect economic claims. Pooley is currently senior vice president for strategy and communications at the Environmental Defense Fund. Read his full paper, How Much Would You Pay to Save

Pooley: States, corporations can lead the way on U.S. climate action

October 20, 2010

October 21, 2010 — When Eric Pooley started writing The Climate War three years ago, he didn’t think the book was going to be a “whodunit.” At the time, he recalled, the climate-change debate was shifting from scientific questions to matters of politics and economics — “‘Is this real?’ to ‘What the heck are we

Panel: Climate coverage difficult, but journalists shouldn’t opt out

March 4, 2010

March 4, 2010 — Not so long ago it appeared that a U.S. cap-and-trade bill was well on its way to becoming reality. But then came the “climategate” emails and increased political opposition, particularly in the Senate, to taking action. While public worries over the impacts of climate change had once been climbing, they’ve since

How Much Would You Pay to Save the Planet? The American Press and the Economics of Climate Change

January 9, 2009

Eric Pooley Kalb Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Fall 2008 Contributor at Time Magazine Read the full paper (PDF). Background In How Much Would You Pay to Save the Planet? The American Press and the Economics of Climate Change, a discussion paper researched and written during the Shorenstein Center’s fall 2008 semester, Fellow Eric Pooley looked at coverage

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