Dear Climate Protectors,
With droughts, floods and extreme temperatures already beginning to engulf our planet, we are
now truly in Code Red Alert for humanity and the survival of what is left of nature.
The UN Secretary General has denounced our governments and leading fossil fuelled corporations
for lying to us and condemned the renewed frenzy of investments in new fossil fuels, as economic
and moral madness.
Of the four pillars of the fossil fuelled economy: governments, oil corporations, banks and media
corporations, the Climate Media Coalition believes that it is the corporate media who hold the key
political power to help us avert total catastrophe.
We believe if we got the full backing of the top 100 media corporations in the world for climate and
nature protection, then humanity could quickly head to net zero carbon by 2030 and put us on a
path to restore the natural world, upon which our survival also depends.
We have therefore pulled together a list below of some of the top global corporate media leaders and their contact details, whom we are calling on supporters to contact, to politely plead with them to step up to their historic challenge and join humanity’s last-ditch effort to avoid utter climate catastrophe.
With billions of people and thousands of organisations around the world dedicated to supporting
action on the climate crisis, it really is possible for us to inspire these 100 individuals to fulfil one of
the most important missions in human history.
Let’s do it and give our children’s families and nature a fighting chance of survival into the next
century and those beyond.
Love and courage
Donnachadh & Caspar
Directors
The Climate Media Coalition
If you get a response, please report it to our Facebook Community at The Climate Media Coalition.
List of Key Western Media Leaders
Name |
Organisation |
Contact |
| Rupert Murdoch/Lachlan Murdoch | Fox News | https://help.foxnews.com/hc/en-us/requests/new |
| Rupert Murdoch/Chase Carey | News Corp | media@newscorp.com |
| Ted Verity, Editor | Daily Mail | Sean.Walsh@dailymail.com |
| Lord Rothermere | Daily Mail | Sean.Walsh@dailymail.com |
| Tim Davie, Director-General | BBC | tim.davie@bbc.co.uk |
| Mark Zuckerberg | zuckerberg@fb.com | |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong, Owner | Los Angeles Times | https://www.latimes.com/about/la-contact-our-readers-rep-htmlstory.html |
| Kevin Merida, Editor | Los Angeles Times | https://www.latimes.com/about/la-contact-our-readers-rep-htmlstory.html |
| Cenk Uygur | The Young Turks | feedback@tytnetwork.com |
| Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, Publisher | New York Times | Arthur.Sulzberger@nytimes.com |
| Joseph Kahn, Editor | New York Times | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/homepage/contact-newsroom.html |
| Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO | Comcast | brian_roberts@comcast.com |
| Susan Arnold, Chairwoman | Disney | responsibility@twdc.com |
| Bob Chapek, CEO | Disney | Robert.Chapek@disney.com |
| Robert M. Bakish | Paramount Global | https://www.paramount.com/contact-us |
| Richard Edelman | Edelman | https://www.edelman.com/contact |
| Alan Polansky, Executive Chairman | Weber Shandwick | |
| Gail Heimann, CEO | Weber Shandwick | gheimann@webershandwick.com |
| Jeff Bezos, Owner | Washington Post (Amazon) | jeff@amazon.com |
| Sally Buzbee, Editor | Washington Post (Amazon) | sally.buzbee@washpost.com |
| Mike Reed, Chairman and CEO | Gannett | content@gannett.com |
| Heath Freeman | Digital First Media (Alden Global Capital) | |
| Matt Moog, CEO (Chicago Public Media) | Chicago Sun Times | https://www.wbez.org/staff/2879/matt-moog |
| Steve Swartz | Hearst Communications | feedback@hearst.com |
| Mark Read, CEO | WPP | enquiries@wpp.com |
| Roberto Quarta, Chairman | WPP | enquiries@wpp.com |
| Martin Sorrell | S4 Capital | @martinsorrell |
| John D Wren | Omnicom Group | katie.beaule@omnicomgroup.com |
| Katharine Viner | Guardian Group | @KathViner |
| Michael Bloomberg | Bloomberg LP | @bloomberg |
List of Key UK Media Leaders
The Climate Media Coalition believe that about 32 corporate UK media leaders have the potential power to enable the UK’s civil society, businesses and government to transform Britain into a carbon negative economy at the speed necessary.
If they choose to lead the historic transformation of their media corporations into active citzen members of a fourth global media pillar of the climate movement, then truly history may judge them as the crucial leaders who helped Britain be a leader in the climate battle to save humanity and most of nature.
The list below is our current view on who those leaders are.
| Name | Organisation | Contact |
| Rebekah Brooks, CEO | News UK | https://www.news.co.uk/contact-us/ |
| Paul Dacre | DMG Media | Sean.Walsh@dailymail.com |
| Ted Verity, Editor | Daily Mail | Sean.Walsh@dailymail.com |
| Lord Rothermere | DMGT | Sean.Walsh@dailymail.com |
| Katharine Viner | Guardian Group | @KathViner |
| Tim Davie | BBC Director General | tim.davie@bbc.co.uk |
| Richard Sharp | Chair BBC Unitary Board | |
| Gary Jones | The Express | Gary.Jones@express.co.uk |
| Jack Lefley | Evening Standard | jack.lefley@standard.co.uk |
| Alison Phillips | Daily Mirror | Alison.Phillips@mirror.co.uk |
| Jon Clark | Daily Star | starletters@dailystar.co.uk |
| Jim Mullen | Reach/Trinity Mirror | jim.mullen@reachplc.com |
| Frederick Barclay | Telegraph Group | |
| Andrew Dagnell | ITN News | andrew.dagnell@itn.co.uk |
| Carolyn McCall | ITV | carolyn.mccall@itv.com |
| David Montgomery | National World | djm@nationalworld.com |
| Alex Mahon (Alexandra) | Channel 4 | amahon@channel4.co.uk |
| Lord Lebedev | Independent Group | contactholmember@parliament.uk |
| Tony Gallagher | The Times | tony.gallagher@thetimes.co.uk |
| Victoria Newton | The Sun | victoria.newton@news.co.uk |
SAMPLE LETTER – please feel free to personalise it but please keep it polite if you do so. If you click on an email link above, this will automatically be inserted as text for you to edit as you wish.
Dear Sir/Madam,
With droughts, floods and extreme temperatures already beginning to engulf our planet, we are now truly in Code Red Alert for humanity and the survival of what is left of nature.
The UN Secretary General has said our governments and leading fossil fuelled corporations are lying to us and condemned the renewed frenzy of investments in new fossil fuels, as economic and moral madness.
Of the four pillars of the fossil fuelled economy: governments, oil corporations, banks and media corporations, I believe that you as one of the world’s 100 most powerful media leaders, are absolutely crucial to unlocking urgently needed political power to help humanity avert total catastrophe.
Just imagine the extraordinary positive force for good, it would be if we got the full backing of the top 100 media corporations in the world for urgent climate and nature protection?
We believe that if you helped this happen, governments, oil corporations and financial institutions would quickly drop their opposition to a climate and ecology protecting renewable-energy economy.
You would literally enable humanity to quickly head to net zero carbon by 2030 and put us on a path to restore the natural world, upon which our survival also depends.
I therefore politely plead with you to step up to your unique historic challenge and join humanity’s last-ditch effort to avoid utter climate catastrophe.
As the UN Secretary General has said, the literal future of humanity depends on us halting all new fossil fuel investments immediately and directing the trillions of dollars planned for those, into energy efficiency, renewables, storage and nature restoration instead.
Please, please, please could you and the other 100 global media leaders consider formally supporting the Climate Media Coalition’s 10 Point Plan for global corporate media action on the climate and ecological crisis? (Copied below)
YOU are crucial to giving our children’s families and nature a fighting chance of survival into the next century and those beyond.
With hope,
Yours,
A. Climate-Protector
The Climate Media Coalition –
10 Point Action Plan for Global Corporate Media to Tackle the Climate & Ecological Crisis.
1/ The global media to cease coverage of non-peer reviewed climate-denialism science
2/ To end the media’s support for the lethal fossil-fuel industry.
3/ The media to promote constructive debate on best and fairest ways to urgently reduce carbon emissions by governments, businesses and individuals.
4/ To have the media promote rather than oppose urgent need to switch to low-carbon lifestyles (i.e., less than one ton/person) and end promotion of high-carbon lifestyles.
5/ To get media to divest from selling advertising promoting fossil fuels.
6/ To have corporate marketing departments assist the effort to help customers reduce their emissions.
7/ For the media & advertising industries to radically reduce their own carbon emissions.
8/ For the global advertising & media industries to accept their responsibility to strenuously help rather than hinder efforts to tackle the climate emergency.
9/ For the global public-affairs / political lobbying industry to divest from accounts that promote the lethal fossil fuel industry and high-carbon consumerism.
10/ To get agreement by the global media to cover climate science scepticism in proportion to its existence in scientific peer reviewed journals i.e., about 5% or less of coverage.
SAMPLE TWEET
Dear X, Please implement the 10 Point Corporate Media Climate Action Plan.
http://climatemediacoalition.org/
The Climate Media Coalition 