tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323600560922370.post7954046037304028457..comments2023-11-02T02:58:46.916-07:00Comments on "The Virus will be Televised." Climate change too!: How The New York Times covers cli-fi in 2017: a blog post to set the record straightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323600560922370.post-39819130085847706642017-09-26T19:37:13.024-07:002017-09-26T19:37:13.024-07:00Back in August, New York Times reporter Livia Albe...Back in August, New York Times reporter Livia Albeck-Ripka, an Australian journalist now living in New York City, contacted me by Twitter and email about a news story she was developing on cli-fi novels, and she asked if I had time to chat with her. I said sure.<br /><br />She wrote (August 19 email): "Dear Dan, thanks for getting back to me so quickly! I am interested in doing a listicle/round-up of Cli-Fi novels for the New York Times interactive section at the Climate Desk and I am wondering if you can help us. Do you have a running list somewhere/thoughts on where the most comprehensive list might be? Cheers, Liva."<br /><br />I sent her a list of cli-fi novels, one short, and one a long list. She decided to use four of the novels I recommended to her and she chose three other novels for her listicle as well. Her news story is reported in an edited version (for clarification and amplification) here.<br /><br /><br />The result of our email chats later turned up a month later in the New York Times in a wonderfully-illustrated article about cli-fi novels. From our first chat on August 19 to the final publication on September 26, it was just over a month or so. Well done, Livia Albeck-Ripka!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />She wrote a fun, interactive piece, well designed on the page and well-promoted on Twitter by her colleagues on the Climate Desk: John Schwartz, Henry Foundation, Hannah Fairfield, Claire O'Neill, Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Cli-fi is alive and well at the New York Times. Soon Pamela Paul at the New York Times Book Review will be assigning book reviewers to review cli-fi novels and call them cli-fi novels.<br /><br /><br /> DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.com