Katherine Dunn
@katherinedunn.bsky.social
Author of Little Blue Dot -- a history of the Global Positioning System. Working on climate journalism at @informedearth.bsky.social, formerly of the OCJN at the Reuters Institute. Canadian/Brit in London 🇨🇦
People around the world use #GPS technology without thinking twice. But in her new book, @katherinedunn.bsky.social shows relying on such navigation systems may be increasingly dangerous. Anna Gielas reviews "Little Blue Dot" @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social: compass.icwa.org/p/review-is-...
Review: Is GPS leading us in the wrong direction?
A new book points to the dangers of relying on a technology with flaws, vulnerabilities and competitors.
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This is very good news for climate journalism! @arguedasortiz.bsky.social and @katherinedunn.bsky.social are continuing in building a worldwide network of journalists I am very proud to be a part of. Apply now!
informedearth.bsky.social@informedearth.bsky.social · 4w ago🌍 We’re launching the Informed Climate Journalism Network! 100 journalists. 6 months. Free online training in climate journalism, starting Jan 2027. Applications are open until 1 November. Find out more and apply: informedstories.org/en/informed-... Know a journalist who should join? Tag them!
Some good news for climate journalism, for a change! Great to see the ICJN is here to pick up where the OCJN left off. Highly recommended for any journalist who wants to cover the climate, whatever their beat. Kudos to @arguedasortiz.bsky.social & @katherinedunn.bsky.social for making this happen!
informedearth.bsky.social@informedearth.bsky.social · 4w ago🌍 We’re launching the Informed Climate Journalism Network! 100 journalists. 6 months. Free online training in climate journalism, starting Jan 2027. Applications are open until 1 November. Find out more and apply: informedstories.org/en/informed-... Know a journalist who should join? Tag them!
🌍 We’re launching the Informed Climate Journalism Network! 100 journalists. 6 months. Free online training in climate journalism, starting Jan 2027. Applications are open until 1 November. Find out more and apply: informedstories.org/en/informed-... Know a journalist who should join? Tag them!
🗞️ The Informed Climate Journalism Network is the new flagship climate journalism training programme of Informed Earth, built by the team behind the Oxford Climate Journalism Network — @arguedasortiz.bsky.social and @katherinedunn.bsky.social — which ran from 2022 to 2025.
this weekend, I had a double-page spread on @katherinedunn.bsky.social’s history of #GPS, Little Blue Dot, for the @telegraph.co.uk—which I enjoyed very much, published by Mudlark/ @harpercollins.bsky.social in the UK on the 18 June.
"Then he turned on the rogue fake signal from his spoofer and watched as the dot on the screen appeared to race off down his street, heading north." @katherinedunn.bsky.social for @thewalrus.ca: thewalrus.ca/how-to-hack-...
How to Hack a Superyacht | The Walrus
GPS is critical to everything from shipping to warfare. Tricking it is ridiculously easy
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🚨NEW: Why your nostalgia for the summer of 1976 is wrong telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08... A charts and data thread🧵⬇️ 1/13
Why your nostalgia for the summer of 1976 is wrong
That year’s heatwave may remain a cultural reference point, but compared to today’s climate it doesn’t look so special
telegraph.co.uk
My Ted Talk is out -- and it's all about the work of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social and how to make climate stories that are impossible (or at least difficult!!) to ignore. www.ted.com/talks/kather...
How to make climate stories impossible to ignore
In environmental reporting, “it's not always about the big climate story,” says journalist Katherine Dunn. She challenges newsrooms to rethink how they cover climate change, connecting to the things r...
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Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...
Global South Climate Database update 🎉 @arguedasortiz.bsky.social, @katherinedunn.bsky.social and I have reviewed and updated all 1000+ entries in the database. Please use this free, searchable database to get in touch with climate experts from the global south 🌏 bit.ly/GSClimateDat...
"eating bread sticks and hummus" and talking about protesting over climate change and Gaza. Quite incredible how it has become an arrestable offence in the UK to merely *talk* about engaging in disruptive but non-violent protest www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
Met Police smash down door of Quaker meeting house to arrest activists
Twenty officers handcuffed six women and took them to the police station in what is thought to be the first raid on a meeting house
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It was so great to listen to Jelani Cobb in Oxford. So many takeaways but this one stood out for me: "It is odd any news org would continue to attend WH briefings. History will hold us accountable for our behaviour in moments like this one" reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...
Full text of Jelani Cobb's 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture: Trust issues. Credibility, credulity and journalism in a time of crisis
On 10 March the Columbia Journalism Dean delivered the 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture. Here's the transcript of his talk.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
“It’s like your best friend telling you they don’t want to be your friend anymore,” he said. “Maybe you can get over it, but you can’t unsay what has been said. And I think for many Canadians, what’s come out of the U.S. can’t be unsaid.” www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...
Anxious and angry, Canadians are souring on the U.S. over Trump’s tariffs, survey finds
More than two-thirds of Canadians say they are concerned about the deteriorating relationship between the two countries
theglobeandmail.com
Being in denial will not actually protect you from stranded assets
Eric Roston@eroston.bsky.social · 2y agoThe biggest US bank, which has financed nearly $400 billion in fossil-fuel projects since the Paris Agreement, launches an important and credible climate advisory note for clients, who apparently have been clamoring for such a thing. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Our own Greg Cochrane spoke to three journalists who've covered the deadly LA wildfires from three different angles. Here are their first-person accounts of an extraordinary experience. We hope it is useful to others going through similar work reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/reporti...
Reporting from inside the inferno: Three journalists reflect on how they covered Los Angeles deadly wildfires
The blazes presented news teams with many challenges. A local editor, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent explain their work.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
"The news media is in the worst crisis in modern history. But people still believe in truth. The proportion of people that trust scientists is the highest. We're attacked, but we have to fight back. The value of truth is still there," says @ivancouronne.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwrw...
Three years, eight countries: How climate news shapes public views
YouTube video by Reuters Institute
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The news getting you down? I invite you to stare at this chart of solar and wind deployed capacity in China. They blew past their ambitious 2030 target... last July.
A good point and also a reminder: PEOPLE LIVE IN GREENLAND. It's their ancestral homeland and their home. A worrying amount of media coverage has confused personally knowing nothing about Greenland, with Greenlanders not existing or having any rights.
Claes de Vreese@claesdevreese.bsky.social · 2y agoGreenland considers new law stating "parties, including local and youth sections, are not allowed to receive contributions from foreign or anonymous donors". This law is considered out of necessity now, but the principle is good and should apply widely (also 🇺🇸) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Join our online event to learn about how people receive and perceive climate news. 🗨️ With @waqasejaz.bsky.social @katherinedunn.bsky.social @ivancouronne.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social 🗓️ Weds 5 Feb 14:00 (UK time) 🔗 Register here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/calendar/thr...
some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons
I'm going to leave the growth of podcasting and 'liberal media' distrust analysis to my smart colleagues, and instead just ask . . . once again . . . who told so many men that women are obsessed with doors www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Masculinity, Podcasts and Trump: 12 Men Discuss
The group discusses the news and podcasts that shape their opinions about America and the world, what being a man’s man means and what they do and don’t want Trump to do in office.
nytimes.com
No, the world has not breached the 1.5C global warming target. It’s a climate target - which means it’s an average that must be sustained over at least a decade. We currently sit at 1.2 C. Which is already very bad. The science is clear: every bit of warming matters, every action matters.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2y agoWorld breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time in 2024 https://www.ft.com/content/fd914266-71bf-4317-9fdc-44b55acb52f6
