Covering the environmental issues and global warming in Delta land: A study of three newspapers

Das, Jahnnabi; Bacon, Wendy; Zaman, Akhteruz

doi:10.24135/pjr.v15i2.982

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“…Additionally, positive corporate media coverage reduces corporate risk and minimizes social threats [72]. Das et al [74] have described how Bangladeshi media are concerned about social and environmental issues regarding corruption and government irregularities regarding corporation and this argument is supported by Islam and Islam [75]. We believe that the Bangladeshi media explicitly and implicitly reports on corporate corruption, which escalates corporate corruption disclosure levels.…”

Section: Corporate Media Visibility and Ccdmentioning

confidence: 88%

Board Directors’ Expertise and Corporate Corruption Disclosure: The Moderating Role of Political Connections

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Professional expert directors extensively influence corporate corruption disclosure (CCD), while higher political connections may exacerbate corporate management. This study investigates the relationship between the presence of external experts on a board and CCD, as well as the moderating effect of political connections, on the positive role of legal experts in CCD. The study combines agency, resource dependence and stakeholder theories to show how resourceful directors on the board can promote corruption disclosure. Using data on listed firms in the Bangladeshi financial sector, the study analyzes 247 firm-year observations from 2012 to 2016. The results of a multiple regression analysis indicate that accounting experts, legal experts, political connections and corporate media visibility each have a positive and significant influence on CCD. Moreover, the moderating effect of political connections on the relationship between legal experts and CCD is negative and significant due to their higher political influences. The study has significant implications for corporate governance and for policies concerning the development of the economy while reducing corruption.

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Section: Corporate Media Visibility and Ccdmentioning

confidence: 88%

Board Directors’ Expertise and Corporate Corruption Disclosure: The Moderating Role of Political Connections

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“…Bacon, Das, and Zaman (2009) found that environmental reporting in Bangladesh as a developing beat which concerned with the political, economic, and social aspects of the environment. Reza (2010) concluded that Bangladeshi newspapers concentrated on global climate change issues, impacts, and debates.…”

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confidence: 99%

Coverage of Environmental Issues in Local Dailies of Chattogram Centering World Environment Day

Hasan

Dutta

2019

SEC

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This research attempts to explore the news coverage of environmental issues in two local newspapers of Chattogram, Bangladesh; The Daily Azadi and The Daily Purbokone. In order to carry out the objectives of the research, qualitative and quantitative methodology were employed. The researcher tries to find the answers to the problem of whether local newspapers of Chattogram cover sufficiently environmental issues and what extent of news they cover comparatively. It also finds the types of environmental issues they covered centering world environment day. Primary data was collected through content analysis of these two newspapers. The agenda-setting approach was the theoretical framework for the study. The research concluded that local newspapers of Chattogram do cover environmental issues, though the subject matter did not receive much analysis. Although environmental issues are not covered sufficiently in these two newspapers, it is concluded that The Daily Azadi covered the highest environmental news comparatively The Daily Purbokone around World Environment Day (WED). The ways of prominence given for environmental issues in these two newspapers were different considerably. In terms of the extent of coverage, types of environmental issues, level of prominence (nature of the story, item, placement, space, and treatment), it is evident that The Daily Azadi newspaper has given the significant representation or considerable coverage for environmental related issues than The Daily Purbokone. But, in The Daily Azadi and The Daily Pubokone, environmental issues were not only ignored but also (if covered) they were given very small portions of the newspaper and marginalized in relation to their presentation. However, Policy makers, academicians, environmentalists and students of environment studies will be the most beneficiaries of this study. Findings can be used as academic purpose as well as in policy making level. It is mentionable, as we studied only two local dailies of Chattogram, to some consideration, it does not represent the grand coverage tendency of Chattogram’s local dailies. So, a further mass scale study can explore the overall propensity of Chattogram’s local dailies regarding environment issues. Keywords: environmental issues, news coverage, World Environment Day (WED), local dailies, Chattogram.

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“…The Bearing Witness project has also related well to a journalism-as-research strategy (Bacon, 2012;Das et al, 2010;Nash, 2015, Nash, 2017) and a 'bottom up' approach with marginalised groups (Harris, 2014). Nash, for example, analyses 'silences and absences' as the norm for 'those not in a position to exercise power in the world of journalism', which are often present in conflicts of interpretation (2017, p. 147).…”

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confidence: 99%

Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project

Robie¹

2018

PJR

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In 2016, the Pacific Media Centre responded to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston by initiating the Bearing Witness journalism project and dispatching two postgraduate students to Viti Levu to document and report on the impact of climate change (Robie & Chand, 2017). This was followed up in 2017 in a second phase of what was hoped would become a five-year mission and expanded in future years to include other parts of the Asia-Pacific region. This project is timely, given the new 10-year Strategic Plan 2017-2026 launched by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in March and the co-hosting by Fiji of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP23) climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, during November. The students dispatched in 2017 on the ‘bearing witness’ journalism experiential assignment to work in collaboration with the Pacific Centre for the Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD) and the Regional Journalism Programme at the University of the South Pacific included a report about the relocation of a remote inland village of Tukuraki. They won the 2017 media and trauma prize of the Asia-Pacific Dart Centre, an agency affiliated with the Columbia School of Journalism. This article is a case study assessing the progress with this second year of the journalism project and exploring the strategic initiatives under way for more nuanced and constructive Asia-Pacific media storytelling in response to climate change.

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Covering the environmental issues and global warming in Delta land: A study of three newspapers

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

Board Directors’ Expertise and Corporate Corruption Disclosure: The Moderating Role of Political Connections

Board Directors’ Expertise and Corporate Corruption Disclosure: The Moderating Role of Political Connections

Coverage of Environmental Issues in Local Dailies of Chattogram Centering World Environment Day

Bearing Witness 2017: Year 2 of a Pacific climate change storytelling project

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