Nicolás Rivero

Nicolás Rivero is a climate solutions reporter for The Washington Post. He covers how communities are adapting to the impacts of climate change in Florida, Texas, and beyond. Rivero joined The Post in 2023 after covering climate change in South Florida for the Miami Herald. He also worked as an innovator-in-residence at the Florida International University Lee Caplin School of Journalism & Media, where he helped create news chatbots and interactive stories. Before that, Rivero was a technology and transportation reporter at Quartz, where he wrote newsletters and reported on how new technologies were changing the way people live, work, and travel. He also created one of the first bot-powered newsrooms in Latin America for El Tiempo. Rivero has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Biography:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/nicol%C3%A1s-rivero/

74%

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The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

100%

Examples:

  • The author consistently presents climate solutions as positive and desirable without providing any balanced or critical perspectives on their costs, benefits, or limitations.
  • The author omits any mention of how renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are intermittent, unpredictable, and dependent on weather conditions that can exacerbate power outages during extreme events.
  • The author uses emotive language such as 'tested' and 'upgrades' to portray the green grid upgrades in Texas as successful and effective without acknowledging the ongoing challenges and failures of the state's power infrastructure.

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • The author does not disclose any potential conflicts of interest in his articles.
  • The author does not provide any evidence or sources for his claims that Texas has tripled its solar power production since Uri struck and that it now has back-up battery power.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

  • The author contradicts his own statement in the second article that Texas is particularly vulnerable to weather extremes because it isn't connected to any other grid by implying in the same paragraph that the state has back-up battery power and tripled its solar power production since Uri struck, which were already underway before the winter storm occurred.
  • The author contradicts the first article's claim that modern eclipse glasses do not expire by stating in the second article that older glasses sold before 2015 may have a three-year expiration date and may not meet safety standards.

Deceptions

70%

Examples:

  • The author presents facts and figures in a misleading way by using words like 'enough' and 'tripled' that imply certainty and precision when the reality is more uncertain and variable.
  • The author uses deceptive practices such as presenting information as a positive development without providing any context or nuance.

Recent Articles

Texas Faces Another Winter Storm Test for Power Grid

Texas Faces Another Winter Storm Test for Power Grid

Broke On: Tuesday, 16 January 2024 A winter storm in Texas on January 16th is expected to test the state's power grid. Despite a previous failure during a winter storm in 2021, the power grid held firm.