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Several early studies into the media's reporting on climate change in Africa have been completed, suggesting common threads in the kinds of coverage that are emerging. These include a lack of training in the newsroom, editorial disinterest in climate change, poor coverage of local impacts, and a low level of scientific understanding. While the climate change story can be considered a 'new' story for African journalists, this author suggests that the challenges it presents have been encountered before -specifically in the coverage of HIV/Aids. The author argues that both climate change and HIV/Aids present systemic challenges to news production, given that they share important characteristics, such as a difficult and unsettled science, the influence of the political, the need to interpret at times complex impacts on society, and a sense of social or humanitarian urgency. These drivers come into conflict with under-resourced newsrooms and a news agenda that is ill equipped to deal properly with the complexities which phenomena such as HIV/Aids or climate change present. Given these observations, and drawing on research, this article considers the kinds of climate change coverage that are likely to emerge, and the challenges these will pose to the newsroom.

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Books and journals, open access & print www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk Welcome to the latest catalogue of the University of Westminster Press, an academic open access publisher since 2015. Our logo, an open laptop and an open book forming a W, was intended as a succinct comment and a visual representation of our mission. For UWP the most signficant development in the last year has been the addition of three new journal titles: the first, Anthropocenes -Human, Inhuman, Posthuman (p.34) an interdisciplinary title of great range tackling some of the big questions of our age including climate change, species extinction and latterly Covid-19. Likewise we are delighted to welcome the Journal of Deliberative Democracy (p.32). As populism surges across the world, the need for democratic legitimacy and real engagement continues to grow. JDD's August 2020 relaunch with UWP highlights key debates in participative democracy and public deliberation and considers how new insights might assist politics grapple with mounting challenges. We also look forward, later in the year to the first issue of Active Travel Studies (p.31). Healthier and more environmentally conscious transport is the focus of the journal's parent research body, the Active Travel Academy at the University of Westminster. Also during this period two of our existing journals Silk Road (p.36) and Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (p.38) are now presented in a new research environment that of ScienceOpen. We welcome ScienceOpen and other new channels assisting readers in discovering our publications. UWP book titles remain available via JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and OAPEN (www.oapen.org), as MARC-21 records for libraries are also now available to download from our home page. Book trade orders and customers can also be set up via an account with Ingrams at www.ingramcontent.com/publishers/lp/introducingipage. This 2020 catalogue features three forthcoming books in the Critical Digital and Social Media Studies series (pp.4-17) -two focusing on the 'Commons' -in Autumn on top of a total of 30 published book titles, 7 CAMRI Policy Briefs (pp.21-23] and the distributed titles in the the History of the 'University of Westminster' series. One undoubted highlight in 2020 will be Can Music Make You Sick? (p. 18) Sadly the answer to this question appears to be 'yes' for musicians, whose mental health is facing unprecedented challenges in the wake of the gig economy, streaming and currently a cessation of the festival season and most live events. Spreadheading a new wave of publications challenging some of the benign assumptions of previous creative industries literature, this title is sure to contribute to an urgent debate in the field. So we hope there's plenty to engage you in the following pages!.