A journalist's carbon footprint

An interesting piece in yesterday's Media Guardian by Claire Dodd where she debates whether journalists should reduce their carbon emissions.

She asks the question whether journalism will suffer if journalists can't actually report live form the scene.Tim Gopsill editor of the NUJ magazine argues that "too much journalism is being produced using office based research."

Travel is justified by the cost being offset by the money that an article(s) will bring in especially for freelancers.

Maybe though the example of a plane load of journalists being flown to Majorca and back to report on the new seating layout of the plane is going a little bit too far.

Travel journalism is also an area where perhaps we need to re examine the issue.The emissions of writing the article are one aspect but also the potential carbon footprint that it will create as people go in search of travel dream