 I'm Kate Shepard. I'm a reporter at Mother Jones Magazine based in Washington, DC. I'm here covering the CBA Sixth Conference and Climate Change adaptation more broadly. If I had a few tips for people who are trying to convince reporters to cover their climate change stories, I guess my first tip would be to make sure you find compelling characters and communities to propose to them because a lot of times we hear about challenges that are sort of general and we hear the same old sort of horrifying stories about climate change but if you can find people who can tell that story or places that tell that story in an interesting way it makes it easier for reporters to go cover it. I think it's also important to think pretty broadly about who you're pitching stories to. Don't only pitch to sort of major newspapers or major TV shows. There are a lot of other publications out there, magazines, small newspapers that might be more likely to come cover your story and it might be able to tell it in a new or more interesting way. It's also important to not just send out a bunch of press releases and expect that reporters will cover your story. We know that those press releases go to thousands of people. It's important to develop relationships with reporters so that you can tell them why this story is important and why they should be the one that covers it and that's much more likely to get somebody to come cover a story then if you're talking directly to them.