Margaret Sullivan heralds the planned expansion of environmental coverage by The New York Times recently. Listing the heavy-hitters expected to file reports for science and the environment, editor Barbara Strauch explained: “The idea is that climate change is the biggest story going, and we ought to be on it in a big way.” Sullivan reports that the idea to beef up the team had come from Jill Abramson, before she was fired last spring, and that the new executive editor, Dean Baquet, had put his full weight and considerable enthusiasm behind it. >Read More via http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/like-sea-level-times-environmental-coverage-on-the-rise/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1