New climate change editor to pursue revealing, hopeful stories
Award-winning science and environment journalist Eloise Gibson is Stuff 's new climate editor. Currently Newsroom.co.nz 's science and environment editor, Gibson previously worked for Stuff and the NZ Herald . She won the science and technology category at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards for her investigation into Sir Ray Avery's infant incubator project . Stuff Editor in Chief Patrick Crewdson said: "We're delighted to have attracted a journalist of Eloise's pedigree as our founding climate editor. She'll take a crucial leadership role as Stuff supercharges its climate crisis coverage." Gibson said: "I'm thrilled to see a news outlet as big as Stuff hiring a dedicated climate team. Good climate coverage is desperately needed right now, and I'll be trying to produce New Zealand climate stories that are revealing, digestible and, whenever possible, hopeful." READ MORE: * We're recruiting to supercharge Stuff's climate crisis coverage * 2020 is the year Auckland must tackle climate change and light rail * Big carbon emitters underperform on NZX sharemarket In November 2018, Stuff launched Quick! Save the Planet , an ongoing project to make the realities of climate change feel tangible, urgent and unignorable. Gibson's climate coverage began in 2009 when she reported from the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. More recently, she's investigated council failures to account for sea-level rises when approving property developments, the fierce debate over how strictly New Zealand should curb methane emissions, and forestry's role as a carbon sink . As a Fulbright Scholar, she graduated from New York's Columbia University with a Master of Arts in science, medical and environmental journalism. While there, she won a major prize, partly for her thesis on how farming cows affects the climate. Her earlier career as a lawyer included a period as a barrister and solicitor at a boutique law firm specialising in environmental law. Gibson will start the role in February.