1. Problems in News Media Climate Coverage
Led by Susan Joy Hassol
Further Exploration
Climate Visuals
Climate Visuals is an evidence-based climate change photography resource. Go to the site and review their guidance and examples. Also, browse images accompanying climate-related news coverage and look for both good and bad examples.
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Media Matters Climate and Energy Program
Media Matters analyses of U.S. climate coverage are undertaken by the Media Matters Climate and Energy Program, which advocates for more and better media coverage of climate change and related issues. They document trends and problems in climate coverage, provide information to journalists, and collaborate with activists and policymakers seeking to improve reporting on climate change.
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Media Matters Corporate Broadcast TV News
Media Matters analysis of broadcast news coverage of the California wildfires found that corporate broadcast TV news failed to make crucial connections between the record-breaking California wildfires and climate change.
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Media and Climate Change Observatory
Professor Max Boykoff’s University of Colorado Boulder groups’ tracking of global media coverage of 120 sources (across newspapers, radio, and TV) in 54 countries in seven regions around the world.
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Doom and Gloom: Role of the Media in Public Disengagement on Climate Change
Elizabeth Arnold’s essay argues that stories with the “repetition of a narrow narrative that focus exclusively on the impacts of climate change leave the public with an overall sense of powerlessness.” She suggests greater coverage of how people responding and can respond to the impacts of climate change to increase audience engagement.
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