1st Edition

Journalism and Reporting Synergistic Effects of Climate Change

Edited By Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Juliet Pinto Copyright 2024
342 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines how journalism functions among “synergistic effects” of climate change, such as compounded impact of severe weather, social and political responses to changing global warming, and the often-unfortunate results and impacts on our environments. The volume emerges as global communities attempt to address climate events already challenging for journalists to cover and the social... Read more

Introduction—Covering Synergistic Effects of Climate Change: Global Challenges for Journalism

Robert E. Gutsche Jr and Juliet Pinto

 

1. New Reasons for Forced Displacement: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Construction of Refugee Identity

Ryan Wallace

 

2. Precariously Employed Climate Journalists the Challenges of Freelance Climate Journalists in South Asia

Mushfique Wadud

 

3. Calm During the Storm: Micro-Assemblage, Meteorology and Community Building on a Local Independent Weather Blog During Hurricane Harvey

Marcus Funk

 

4. Blowing in the Wind—Norwegian Wind Power Photographs in Transition

Anne Hege Simonsen

 

5. Heroes of the Day After Tomorrow: “The Oil Worker” in Norwegian Climate Coverage 2017–2021

Andreas Ytterstad, Camilla Houeland and David Jordhus-Lier

 

6. The Potential of Interactivity and Gamification Within Immersive Journalism & Interactive Documentary (I-Docs) to Explore Climate Change Literacy and Inoculate Against Misinformation

Lawrence Brannon, Lisa Gold, Johnny Magee and Geoff Walton

 

7. Metajournalistic Discourse as a Stabilizer within the Journalistic Field: Journalistic Practice in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Gregory Perreault, Mildred F. Perreault and Phoebe Maares

 

8. How Constructive News Outlets Reported the Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Covid-19 Through Metaphors

Dimitrinka Atanasova

 

9. Understanding Influences, Misinformation, and Fact-Checking Concerning Climate-Change Journalism in Pakistan

Waqas Ejaz, Muhammad Ittefaq and Muhammad Arif

 

10. Covering the Wildfire of Mati in Greece: Undermining the Systemic Human Impact on the Environment

Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis

 

11. Are Journalists Reporting on the Highest-Impact Climate Solutions? Findings from a Survey of Environmental Journalists

Amanda C. Borth, Eryn Campbell, Sammi Munson, Shaelyn M. Patzer, William A. Yagatich and Edward Maibach

 

12. Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change: Journalists’ Attitudes, Motivations and Role Perceptions

Nadine Strauss, James Painter, Joshua Ettinger, Marie-Noëlle Doutreix, Anke Wonneberger and Peter Walton

 

13. Journalists and Engagement on Twitter and Climate Change: Tweet Authors, Formats, and Content During COP25

Rafael Carrasco Polaino, Montse Mera Fernández and Sonia Parratt Fernández

 

14. Telling Every Story: Characteristics of Systematic Reporting

David Caswell

 

15. What is ‘Good’ Climate Journalism? Public Perceptions of Climate Journalism in Denmark

Ida Willig, Mark Blach-Ørsten and Rasmus Burkal

 

16. Setting an Agenda to Tackle Environmental Issues with Data and Collaboration

Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos

Biography

Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University, USA, whose research focuses on issues of power and ideology in digital journalism. He is Associate Editor of Journalism Practice and founded and hosts its podcast, “The J Word.”

Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor in the Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State, USA. Her research explores news production of environmental issues in a comparative perspective. She is the co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Media and the co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Communicating Resiliency and Efficacy in a Digital Age: Mediated Communities.