Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism Conceptualizing Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions

1. Theorising global risk journalism

Ansgard Heinrich, Bruce Mutsvairo, Saba Bebawi, Ingrid Volkmer and Antonio Castillo

2. Planetary risks and emerging dimensions of journalism in transnational interdependence – towards a conception of global ‘risk’ journalism

Ingrid Volkmer

Section 1: Global risk journalism and local challenges

3. Transformation of journalism practices in Colombia: response to a pandemic risk 

Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Monica Parada Llanes

4. General trends in Arab post-COVID-19 journalism: digitalisation, practices and job instability

Rasha El-Ibiary, Mostafa Shehata, Noha Adel, Maha Abdulmajeed and Ahmed Orabi

5. Discrediting official sources and technological adaptations – the case of Brazil in a time of pandemic

Paula Melani Rocha and Rafael Kondlatsch

6. COVID-19 disinformation & fake news circulation—from the perspective of Global South Countries

Sara Chinnasamy, Felipe F. Salvosa II and Christian V. Esguerra

Section 2: Global risk journalism and the transformation of local practice

7. From disruption to a perfect storm; insights from a holistic analysis of British journalists’ pandemic experiences

Carole O’Reilly and Julian Matthews

8. Implications of the stratification of journalistic work in Mexico – in the context of the global pandemic

9. Who wins the battle between risks and protective factors of journalism?: a social-ecological perspective of reporting in Macedonia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marijana Markovikj and Eleonora Serafimovska

10. Understanding the impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic on professional ideology: insights from Greece and Cyprus

Paschalia (Lia) Spyridou, Pantelis Vatikiotis and Theodora A. Maniou

11. Journalism and risk in Peru: from deadly tolls and economic survival to dangers in news production and framing

12. Managing mental health risks and safety: practical experiences and challenges faced by Global South journalists

Sara Chinnasamy, Felipe F. Salvosa II and Christian V. Esguerra

Section 3: Global risk journalism: establishing standards and practices in contexts of different types of global crisis

13. The role of journalism in promoting the science-based framing of climate change in the public agenda and the public’s attitudes: Israel as a case study

Hillel Nossek and Nissim Katz

14. Does the margin have a voice? The role of journalists in reporting disparities in climate change risks in Tunisia

Samar Ben Romdhane and Mokhtar Elareshi

15. Doing journalism research in times of a contagious global health crisis: methodological dilemmas and reflections from sub-Saharan Africa

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Allen Munoriyarwa, Apejoye Adeyanju, Adwoa S. Amankwah, Trust Matsilele, George Ogola and David Cheruiyot

16. Many reasons to fail: journalism standards and climate change reporting in Russia
Svetlana S. Bodrunova

17. From pity to indifference: analysing affect in visual motifs of animals and climate emergency in Spanish media

Ariadna Cordal and Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco

18. Climate coverage and its intersections with food security: a content analysis of Mexico’s print media
Gabriela Ramirez Galindo

19. Climate change journalism in Egypt: roles, challenges, and opportunities

Mostafa Shehata and Noha Adel

Biography

Ingrid Volkmer, Professor, University of Melbourne, specializes in globalized communication, transnational public communication, and digital policy. She has published widely in this area. Her work on globalization and journalism has a focus on globalized risks and the way journalists communicate the globalized crisis dimension. Among her publications in this area is the book ‘Risk Journalism – between transnational politics and climate change’ with Kasim Sharif (2018).

Bruce Mutsvairo is a Professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He has authored and edited several books on journalism and media and studies the development of journalism in non-Western societies.

Saba Bebawi is Professor of Journalism and Dean of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. She has published on the role of digital journalism within social, cultural, and economic frameworks of news‑making, particularly in relation to democracy building and the Global South. Bebawi is author of ‘Media Power and Global Television News: The role of Al Jazeera English’, ‘Investigative Journalism in the Arab World: Issues and Challenges’, and co‑author of ‘The Future Foreign Correspondent’.

Ansgard Heinrich is Associate Professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She specializes in the study of contemporary journalistic practice, and her primary research interests include global conflict reporting, digital disinformation and social media use in journalism.

Antonio Castillo is a journalist and academic who teaches journalism and supervises postgraduate students at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of “Journalism in the Chilean Transition to Democracy” and co-author of “Cosmopolitan Sydney”. His forthcoming book, “Up to the Neck in Contradictions”, is a journalistic work that delves into the last few decades of Latin American society.