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

Reporting civilizational collapse: Research notes from a world-in-crisis

“…A quick summary review, for example, of seven of the field's leading journals' article titles and abstracts (Media, Culture and Society, European Journal of Communication, International Journal of Communication, Global Media and Communication, Journalism Studies, Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism and Journalism Practice) found that of 2633 articles published across 3 years and 4 months (January 2019-April 2022), only 13 (0.4%) raised the compound nature of global crises or made reference to these at world or planetary level. Articles about single issues/crises, (COVID (35, 1.3%), asylum seeking and migrancy (35, 1.3%), climate change (19, 0.7%), and weather-related disasters (11, 0.4%)), invariably focused on media framing or media affordances and processes of media production in specific countries, but did not situate or seek to theorize these in global, world or planetary context (exceptionally, see : Atanasova, 2022;Borth et al, 2022;Cottle, 2019;Gutsche Jr and Pinto, 2022;Robertson and Schaetz, 2022). Studies of media and food, water and energy insecurity, biodiversity loss, the sixth mass extinction, population growth as well as weapons of mass annihilation were notable by their complete absence.…”