EHRP-Grist Story Wins Prestigious Climate Journalism Award
EHRP is thrilled to announce that Lois Parshley’s EHRP-supported story for Grist, “As climate risks mount, the insurance safety net is collapsing,” won best business and economics feature at the 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards. Held by Covering Climate Now, the CCNow Journalism Awards recognizes the best climate storytellers from around the world. This year’s competition saw over 1,250 entries from journalists working in every medium.
Judges commented the following about the story:
With climate disasters leaving ever more destruction in their wake, the global insurance industry is collapsing in real time. The result of a year-long investigation, this work by reporter Lois Parshley expertly unpacks how climate change is upending the insurance industry — and how this fact is colliding with a housing supply crisis, to make matters worse for the people and communities who can least afford to be suddenly unprotected. With strong characters and fascinating history, the story is “filled with ‘wow’ moments,” judges said. It even caught the attention of US senators, who brought Parshley in front of the Senate Budget Committee to share her reporting.
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The Economic Hardship Reporting Project supports independent journalists so they can create gripping stories which often counter the typical disparaging narratives about inequality. This high-quality journalism is then co-published with mainstream media outlets mobilizing readers to address systemic economic hardship.
