“Reporting on climate change: A computational analysis of U.S. newspapers and sources of bias, 1997–2017”

Bohr, Jeremiah

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102038

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“…Despite the increasing importance of social media, the fragmentation of the media industry, and the decline of readership of most printed newspapers, regional newspapers still play a key role as hubs connecting top-down and bottom-up information flows [ 9 , 40 ]. Newspapers have been widely read, and the societal role of high-quality newspapers is still relatively strong in Finland and Germany [ 41 , 42 ].…”

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Mining in the Newspapers: Local and Regional Media Representations of Mineral Exploration and Mining in Finland, Germany, and Spain

Lyytimäki

Benighaus

Gómez³

et al. 2021

Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration

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The understanding of public debates over mineral exploration and mining largely originates from exceptional situations such as mining accidents of conflicts. Less is known about how mining is portrayed and understood under more conventional settings. What storylines dominate the local day-to-day public debate? This article presents results from a comparative case study focusing on newspaper coverage of mineral exploration and mining in three European countries representing different geological and socio-economic contexts. Newspaper articles from the Geyer-Erzgebirge region in Germany, the Andalusia region in Spain, and Northern Finland are studied. The sample looks into the period between September 2018 and February 2020 and shows that regional newspapers report about mining issues relatively intensively even in the absence of major accidents or other media events causing peaks of attention. The tone of the articles is generally neutral to positive towards mining activities, reflecting the specific local settings, historical experiences, and future expectations. Despite the different contexts of the three countries, there were considerable similarities to the topics highlighted, including common themes of mining revival, mining events and social interaction, history of mining, and damages related to mining. Past, present, and future employment opportunities related directly or indirectly to the mining sector are key storylines. Another recurrent underlying theme is the need to balance environment and safety risks and socio-economic prosperity, typically covered through ordinary disputes among the mining sector, public authorities, regional non-governmental organizations, and local initiatives.

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Mining in the Newspapers: Local and Regional Media Representations of Mineral Exploration and Mining in Finland, Germany, and Spain

Lyytimäki

Benighaus

Gómez³

et al. 2021

Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration

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“…It also incorporates some social perception of the damage, as filtered by news media. The use of news information becomes a good proxy data source for obtaining information about damage magnitude in the absence of systematic databases of storm-induced damage [7], although some bias has been identified in how newspapers report and disseminate scientific information such as the news concerning climate change [43]. In regional studies, such as in the present work where different newspapers should to be used to report impacts, different biases should also be considered which include: (1) the distinct access to the newspaper archive: La Vanguardia has a search engine for the open access newspaper archive, but a search engine is only available for the digital edition in the other newspapers; (2) the diverse editorial positions can modify the overall interest for coastal damages or favor the interest of some sectors of the coast; (3) the accurate manner in which the damage is reported by each newspaper and (4) the different lengths of the coast and the number of beaches in each sector require some normalization of data to be compared.…”

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The Use of News Information Published in Newspapers to Estimate the Impact of Coastal Storms at a Regional Scale

Sancho-García

Guillén

Gràcia

et al. 2021

JMSE

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The evaluation of coastal damage caused by storms is not straightforward and different approaches can be applied. In this study, damage caused by extreme storms is evaluated at a regional scale based on news information published in regional newspapers. The data derived from the news are compared with hydrodynamic parameters to check the reliability of this methodology as a preliminary” fast approach” to evaluate storm damage and to identify hotspots along the coast. This methodology was applied to the two most extreme storms ever recorded along the Spanish Mediterranean coast, which occurred in January 2017 and January 2020, severely impacting the coast and causing significant community concerns. The news information from different media sources was processed and weighted to describe the resulting erosion, inundation, sand accumulation, and destruction of infrastructures. Moreover, an accuracy index for scoring the quality of the information was proposed. In spite of some limitations of the method, the resulting regional coastal hazard landscape of damage provides a rapid overview of the intensity and distribution of the damage and enables one to identify the location of potential hotspots for the analyzed extreme storm events. The results show that estimated damage intensity is better related to maximum wave energy than cumulative wave energy during a storm, and that beach characteristics should also be included for understanding the distribution of coastal damage.

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“…A special place in the literature on the subject is also held by publications dedicated to empirical studies focused on evaluating sustainability disclosures (including climate-related issues) in non-financial reporting in various countries all over the world. These could be e.g., Liesen et al (2015), Cotter et al (2011), Morueta-Holme et al (2018, Ooi and Amran, (2018), Bohr (2020). Also, Polish authors have contributed their valuable studies in that regard.…”

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Determination Climate-Related Information Reporting on the Example of Selected Polish Listed Companies

Czaja-Cieszyńska¹

2021

ERSJ

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Purpose: This article aims to assess the scope of climate-related non-financial information disclosed in reports published by selected Polish listed companies. To that end, a research hypothesis was formulated as follows: lack of mandatory regulations on notifying stakeholders of the climate-related impacts of a given enterprise limits the scope of the disclosures. Design/Methodology/Approach: The following research methods were applied in this study, literature review, analysis of legal regulations, in-depth analysis of secondary data in the form of non-financial reports. Also, induction and synthesis methods were applied in formulating the conclusions. For the empirical study, 10 top Polish listed companies (the biggest in terms of market capitalization, included in the WIG-20 index) were selected on a targeted basis. The study covered non-financial reports for 2019. The research consisted of two phases: in the 1st phase, descriptive information was evaluated, whereas the 2nd phase focused on analyzing disclosures of quantitative nature in the form of non-financial indicators. Findings: The analysis of the non-financial reports of the selected Polish companies confirmed that the scope of disclosed climate-related information was small, mainly since the disclosures were voluntary (positive verification of the hypothesis). Both the descriptive part of the disclosures and the one expressed in the form of indicators confirmed that the nonfinancial reports were not a sufficient tool for stakeholders to obtain information on the impact of the business operations on the climate. Practical Implications: The research study has confirmed the need to intensify legislative works to develop a catalog of required, structured, comparable, and reliable climate-related disclosures. Originality/Value: The article supplements the existing body of research related to nonfinancial reporting by identifying the research gap about climate-related disclosures in Poland after 2019.

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“Reporting on climate change: A computational analysis of U.S. newspapers and sources of bias, 1997–2017”

Cited by 65 publications

References 79 publications

Mining in the Newspapers: Local and Regional Media Representations of Mineral Exploration and Mining in Finland, Germany, and Spain

Mining in the Newspapers: Local and Regional Media Representations of Mineral Exploration and Mining in Finland, Germany, and Spain

The Use of News Information Published in Newspapers to Estimate the Impact of Coastal Storms at a Regional Scale

Determination Climate-Related Information Reporting on the Example of Selected Polish Listed Companies

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