Source strategies and the mediatization of climate change

Climate of scepticism: US newspaper coverage of the science of climate change

“…Wilkins and Patterson, 1987;Dunwoody and Peters, 1992;Mazur and Lee, 1993;Beck, 1995;Friedman et al, 1996;Mazur, 1998;Ungar, 1998;Allan et al, 2000;Sachsman et al, 2004;Major and Atwood, 2004). Our understanding of media portrayals of climate change has advanced through works that have explored various dimensions of this realm, such as sources of reporter knowledge (Mormont and Dasnoy, 1995;Wilson, 2000a, b); misreporting or miscommunication (Schneider, 1990;Bell, 1991aBell, , b, 1994aHenderson-Sellers, 1998a misunderstanding (Bell, 1994b;Wilson, 2000b;Hargreaves et al, 2003); the social construction of scientific uncertainty (Zehr, 2000;Corbett and Durfee, 2004); and prominent trends in the way climate change is communicated (Wilkins and Patterson, 1991;Wilkins, 1993;Weingart et al, 2000;Friel, 2005).…”

Ten years to prevent catastrophe?

“…Various papers have shown the importance of journalists' sources in shaping media coverage of climate change (Antilla, 2005;Carvalho, 2005;Mormont and Dasnoy, 1995). Here, the interpretation of 'actors' is expanded to include organisations such as NGOs and the scientific community, the latter's influence investigated by Nissani (1999), amongst others.…”

“…newspaper ideologies (Carvalho, 2005(Carvalho, , 2007, the sources used for articles (Antilla, 2005;Mormont and Dasnoy, 1995), reporters' knowledge about climate change (Wilson, 2000) and journalistic norms Boykoff, 2004, 2007). More specifically, some have investigated the influence and translation of scientific uncertainty within the media (Ladle et al, 2005;Zehr, 2000).…”

“…Although the body of research includes analyses of the press in Australia (McManus, 2000), Belgium (Mormont and Dasnoy, 1995), Finland (Dispensa and Brulle, 2003), France (Brossard et al, 2004), Germany (Weingart et al, 2000) and New Zealand (Bell, 1994), much of the work has focussed on the press of the UK and the United States (US). The analysis uses UK national newspapers.…”

The Framing of Climate Change in Canadian, American, and International Newspapers: A Media Propaganda Model Analysis

“…This is not to say that the story of the climate is uniform within any one country, but that, in general terms, one country may be quite different from another in terms of how the story of the changing climate is told. Mormont and Dasnoy (1995) provided an earlier example of the ways in which countries can differ in their transmission of climate information. The authors proposed different national models for climate communication (e.g., a model that questioned the competency of the media in France and a public communication model for the German media) based on interviews with scientists, journalists, and environmental leaders.…”