Australia is facing, possibly, its worst health crisis as the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues its march around the country sending multiple states into lockdown.

Away from the pandemic the global climate change crisis has come even more in focus with the damning report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released this week and tensions between global superpowers become increasingly fraught.

The role of the media in covering the unrelenting and constantly evolving news cycle has never been more important nor more scrutinised.

Today on Please Explain, executive editor Tory Maguire joins Nathanael Cooper to explore the role the media plays in disseminating critical information.