About the Special Issue of Journalism Practice
This volume of Journalism Practice, which emerged from the 2020 UK Underwater workshop at Lancaster University’s Data Science Institute, is interested in the how journalism functions among “synergistic effects” of climate change, the compounded impact of severe weather, social and political responses to changing global warming, and the often-unfortunate results and impacts on our environments as global communities attempt to address climate events already challenging for journalists to cover and the social and cultural outcomes associated with them.
Articles range from examining the role of technology in journalism practice to ideology in its explanations of social and cultural issues surrounding climate change, as well as the changing climate itself.
Additional discussion on articles from this special issue will be released on the journal’s podcast, “The J Word.”
The issue is edited by Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. (Lancaster University) and Juliet Pinto (Pennsylvania State University).
Articles in the Special Issue
Introduction
Covering Synergistic Effects of Climate Change: Global Challenges for Journalism, by Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. and Juliet Pinto
Covering Communities, Climate, & Contestation
New Reasons for Forced Displacement: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Construction of Refugee Identity, by Ryan Wallace
Precariously Employed Climate Journalists: The Challenges of Freelance Climate Journalists in South Asia, by Mushfique Wadud
Calm During the Storm: Micro-assemblage, Meteorology and Digital Community Building During Hurricane Harvey, by Marcus Funk
Blowing in the Wind: Norwegian Wind Power Photographs in Transition, by Anne Hege Simonsen
Heroes of the Day After Tomorrow: “The oil worker” in Norwegian Climate Coverage, 2017-2021, by Andreas Ytterstad, Camilla Houeland, and David Jordhus-Lier
The Potential of Interactivity and Gamification Within Immersive Journalism & Interactive Documentary (I-Docs) to Explore Climate Change Literacy and Inoculate Against Misinformation, by Lawrence Brannon, Lisa Gold, Johnny Magee, & Geoff Walton
Climate Coverage During COVID-19 & a Crisis of Truth & Trust
Metajournalistic Discourse as a Stabilizer Within the Journalistic Field: Journalistic Practice in the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Gregory Perreault, Mildred Perreault, and Phoebe Maares
How Constructive News Outlets Reported the Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and COVID-19 Through Metaphors, by Dimitrinka Atanasova
Understanding Influences, Misinformation, and Fact-checking Concerning Climate-change Journalism in Pakistan, by Waqas Ejaz, Muhammad Ittefaq, and Muhammad Arif
Covering the Wildfire of Mati in Greece: Undermining the Systemic Human Impact on the Environment, by Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis
Are Journalists Reporting on the Highest-Impact Climate Solutions?: Findings from a Survey of Environmental Journalists, by Amanda C. Borth, Eryn Campbell, Sammi Munson, Shaelyn M Patzer, Wailliam A. Yagatich, and Edward Maibach
Journalistic Attitudes & Attempts in Covering Climate Complications
Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change: Journalists’ Attitudes, Motivations and Role Perceptions, by Nadine Strauß, James Painter, Joshua Ettinger, Marie Noëlle Doutreix, Anke Wonneberger, and Peter Walton
Journalists and Engagement on Twitter and Climate Change: Authors, Formats, and Content During COP25, by Rafael Carrasco Polaino, Montse Mera Fernández, and Sonia Parrat Fernández
Telling Every Story: Characteristics of Systematic Reporting, by David Caswell
What is “Good” Climate Journalism?: Public Perceptions of Climate Journalism in Denmark, by Ida Willig, Mark Blach-Ørsten, and Rasmus Burkal
Setting an Agenda to Tackle Environmental Issues with Data and Collaboration, by Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos