Journalism and Reporting Synergistic Effects of Climate Change

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.

Introduction—Covering Synergistic Effects of Climate Change: Global Challenges for Journalism 1. New Reasons for Forced Displacement: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Construction of Refugee Identity 2. Precariously Employed Climate Journalists the Challenges of Freelance Climate Journalists in South Asia 3. Calm During the Storm: Micro-Assemblage, Meteorology and Community Building on a Local Independent Weather Blog During Hurricane Harvey 4. Blowing in the Wind—Norwegian Wind Power Photographs in Transition 5. Heroes of the Day After Tomorrow: “The Oil Worker” in Norwegian Climate Coverage 2017–2021 6. The Potential of Interactivity and Gamification Within Immersive Journalism & Interactive Documentary (I-Docs) to Explore Climate Change Literacy and Inoculate Against Misinformation 7. Metajournalistic Discourse as a Stabilizer within the Journalistic Field: Journalistic Practice in the Covid-19 Pandemic 8. How Constructive News Outlets Reported the Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Covid-19 Through Metaphors 9. Understanding Influences, Misinformation, and Fact-Checking Concerning Climate-Change Journalism in Pakistan 10. Covering the Wildfire of Mati in Greece: Undermining the Systemic Human Impact on the Environment 11. Are Journalists Reporting on the Highest-Impact Climate Solutions? Findings from a Survey of Environmental Journalists 12. Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change: Journalists’ Attitudes, Motivations and Role Perceptions 13. Journalists and Engagement on Twitter and Climate Change: Tweet Authors, Formats, and Content During COP25 14. Telling Every Story: Characteristics of Systematic Reporting 15. What is ‘Good’ Climate Journalism? Public Perceptions of Climate Journalism in Denmark 16. Setting an Agenda to Tackle Environmental Issues with Data and Collaboration