Newspaper Framing of Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in India

This article describes how climate change influences nature and human life and it is the basis for social and economic development. News reporting on climate change must address the challenges in the deeper social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps people to better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. This article aims to examine how dominant newspapers in Tamil Nadu have framed climate change and sustainability issues. This is done by analyzing climate change articles (N = 120) in two mainstream newspapers – The Hindu in English and the Daily Thanthi in Tamil. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.

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Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in Indian Newspapers

Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Internet Activism and Political Participation - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-4796-0.ch012 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 189-206

Author(s):

Nirmala Thirumalaiah ◽

Arul Aram I.

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Human Life ◽

News Coverage ◽

The Public ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

News Stories ◽

Change Communication ◽

Regional Newspapers ◽

The Times

Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.

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Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in Indian Newspapers

10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch038 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 780-798

Author(s):

Nirmala Thirumalaiah ◽

Arul Aram I.

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Human Life ◽

News Coverage ◽

The Public ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

News Stories ◽

Change Communication ◽

Regional Newspapers ◽

The Times

Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.

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What’s a Dog Story Worth?

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096514001103 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 47 (04) ◽

pp. 819-823 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Matthew D. Atkinson ◽

Maria Deam ◽

Joseph E. Uscinski

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

News Coverage ◽

New York Times ◽

Public Attention ◽

The Public ◽

News Stories ◽

Regional Newspapers ◽

News Event

ABSTRACTJournalists consider the importance of events and the audience’s interest in them when deciding on which events to report. Events most likely to be reported are those that are both important and can capture the audience’s interest. In turn, the public is most likely to become aware of important news when some aspect of the story piques their interest. We suggest an efficacious means of drawing public attention to important news stories: dogs. Examining the national news agenda of 10 regional newspapers relative to that of theNew York Times, we evaluated the effect of having a dog in a news event on the likelihood that the event is reported in regional newspapers. The “dog effect” is approximately equivalent to the effect of whether a story warrants front- or back-page national news coverage in theNew York Times. Thus, we conclude that dogs are an important factor in news decisions.

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Analysis of COVID-19 news coverage by Televisión Española (TVE1)

Communication & Society ◽

10.15581/003.35.1.17-28 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 17-28

Author(s):

Gloria Rosique-Cedillo ◽

Paz-Andrea Crisóstomo-Flores

Keyword(s):

Best Practice ◽

News Coverage ◽

Journalism Ethics ◽

News Frames ◽

Health Crisis ◽

News Reporting ◽

News Stories ◽

Economic News ◽

Best Practice Guidelines ◽

The Government

This article analyzes the news coverage of the COVID-19 health crisis by Televisión Española (TVE1), to determine if this media reported the news with rigor and in accordance with journalism professional codes and best practice guidelines. For this purpose, content analysis was conducted on the universe of news stories (n=1,449) in the TVE1 daily newscast, starting with the first outbreak of the pandemic on the Iberian Peninsula on February 26, 2020, until the end of the first state of emergency on June 21, 2020. Our categories of analysis were: information sources, news frames, predominant topics, resources used for dramatic effects, and breaches of journalism ethics in reporting news. In general, TVE1 did not engage in sensationalized or dramatized news coverage, but instead attempted to transmit a message that was educational and instructional. Its policy was to provide information on measures adopted by authorities to help prevent the spread of the pandemic. Nevertheless, TVE’s benevolent attitude towards the government and its policies can be observed in its news reporting, revealing a lack of impartiality and editorial independence by this media. Despite the importance of specialized and expert information in times of a pandemic, eyewitness sources were those most used in reporting news, even in economic news framing. Furthermore, these latter sources were employed instead of expert ones, which were in fact the least used, and whose presence progressively declined during the analyzed period.

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Climate Change Communication on Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo, and Other Social Media Platforms

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.361 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Edson C. Tandoc ◽

Nicholas Eng

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Social Media ◽

Media Coverage ◽

News Coverage ◽

Research Approach ◽

Climate Change Communication ◽

Climate Change Research ◽

Sina Weibo ◽

Change Communication ◽

Social Media Platforms

While initial research on climate change communication focused on traditional media, such as news coverage of climate change and pro-environmental campaigns, scholars are increasingly focusing on the role of social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Sina Weibo. Social media platforms provide a space for three important domains of climate change communication: information, discussion, and mobilization. First, social media platforms have been used by scientists, activists, journalists, and ordinary people to share and receive reports about climate change. Policymakers and academics also use social media for climate change research. Second, social media platforms provide users with a space to discuss climate change issues. Scientists and journalists use social media to interact with the public, who also use social media to criticize policies, as well as media coverage. Finally, social media platforms have been used to coordinate rescue and relief operations in the aftermath of climate change–related disasters, as well as to organize movements and campaigns about climate change. However, most research about climate change communication in social media spaces are based on quantitative analysis of tweets from Western countries. While this body of work has been illuminating, our understanding of social media’s increasingly important role in climate change communication will benefit from a more holistic research approach that explores social media use in climate change communication across a variety of platforms, cultures, and media systems.

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Claims, Frames, and Blame

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/2158244016675199 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 215824401667519 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Bradley C. Freeman

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Warming ◽

English Language ◽

News Coverage ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Government Officials ◽

News Stories ◽

Print News ◽

Several Variables ◽

The Impact

As economies in Southeast Asia develop, there is renewed interest in the impact such growth has on nature. This study seeks to investigate how environmental issues have been covered in the English-language press of the region. Are some countries providing greater print news coverage versus others? Are there detectable patterns or noticeable biases in the coverage? What sources are relied upon in the print media stories? And what frames do we see in the coverage? This study identified general coverage patterns of the environment over a 10-year period (2002-2012), in several of the region’s English-language newspapers. News stories were analyzed to discern the nature of the coverage, coding for several variables as indicated by previous literature. Results indicate that use of the term climate change became preferred over that of global warming. In addition, coverage increased greatly starting in 2006. Government officials were most often the sources quoted within stories (Claims). Articles contained more “judgments” about the issue than “solutions” (Frames). Finally, though most articles eschewed mentioning a specific actor as causing climate change, “man” was implicated in a number of stories more often than simply “nature” (Blame).

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Reporting in a Warming World: A Media Review

10.24943/rwwmr08.2021 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kaavya Pradeep Kumar

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Critical Role ◽

News Coverage ◽

Extreme Rainfall ◽

Asia Pacific ◽

Extreme Weather Events ◽

Extreme Rainfall Events ◽

Change Communication ◽

Warming World ◽

Media Review

The media plays a critical role in terms of shaping public perceptions, but they have a task on their hands in terms of effectively communicating a subject as vast and complex as climate change. India is among the countries most affected and yet reporting on the subject has been episodic, with peaks around the time of climate summits and in the immediate aftermath of disasters such as cyclones, heatwaves and extreme rainfall events. Through a media review, undertaken as part of the Earth Journalism Network Asia-Pacific Media Grant, we sought to understand patterns of representation in news coverage about urban drought and extreme weather events – predicted to occur more frequently and intensely in a warming world. This report details the methodology we followed, our findings and analyses them in the context of other work done as part of the evolving field of climate change communication.

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Climate change news reporting in Pakistan: a qualitative analysis of environmental journalists and the barriers they face

Journal of Science Communication ◽

10.22323/2.17010203 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (01) ◽

pp. A03 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Asim Sharif ◽

Fabien Medvecky

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

News Media ◽

Public Awareness ◽

News Coverage ◽

Global Risk ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Sea Levels ◽

News Reporting ◽

The Media ◽

Rising Sea Levels

Climate change is a global risk as its causes and effects are not limited to national borders, but the risks and the responsibility are not evenly spread [Beck, 2009]. Pakistan is facing especially severe impacts in the form of disasters, floods, droughts, rising temperatures, cyclones and rising sea levels due to global emissions, despite its national emissions being nominal and accounting for only 0.46% of worldwide emissions [World Bank, 2018]. Ironically, the level of public awareness of climate change is low in Pakistan compared to not only advanced countries, but also to other countries in the South Asian region [Zaheer and Colom, 2013]. A contributing factor behind this is the communication gap between the media and the broader public. This study aims to explore the factors responsible for the limited coverage of climate change in the news media, leading to confusion, uncertainty, denial and low levels of climate change awareness in Pakistan. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with media professionals and the findings show that political, economic, social, cultural, technological and scientific factors influence the news coverage of climate change issues.

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Climate Change Communication in Portugal

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.599 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ana Horta ◽

Anabela Carvalho

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

News Coverage ◽

National Policy ◽

Collective Responsibility ◽

Green Economy ◽

Communication Policy ◽

Climate Change Communication ◽

Public Attention ◽

News Sources ◽

Change Communication

In Portugal, global politics tend to dominate climate change communication. Policy-oriented news stories prevail, being very much influenced by international events, dynamics, and actors, especially European ones, whereas national politicians and officials tend to be given less space. Climate change is thus mainly (re)presented as a global issue, distant from local realities, in spite of the vulnerabilities that the country faces. National policy makers tend to adopt a technocratic discourse that comes across as “rational” and fairly optimistic, with little contestation by environmental groups or others. A “green economy” discourse has prevailed in the media, with investment on renewable energy being depicted as the way to both stimulating the economy and addressing climate change. Scientific knowledge tends to be represented as consensual and national scientists tend to avoid dramatization. Although public opinion surveys have shown that the population considers climate change a serious problem and skepticism regarding its anthropogenic causes is low, surveys have also revealed high levels of ignorance and self-evaluated lack of information. In spite of a traditionally weak environmental movement and lack of public engagement, the population has shown a consistent sense of collective responsibility to tackle climate change. The economic and financial crisis up until the mid-2010s considerably affected the already fragile media system and turned political and public attention to economy-related topics. News coverage of climate change, in all its complexity, has been constrained by a lack of specialized reporters and increased dependency on the pro-activity of news sources.

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