Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism

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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism provides a thorough understanding of environmental journalism around the world. An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number of full-time newspaper reporters, environmental journalists remain key to bringing stories to light across the globe. With contributions from around the world broken down into five key regions - the United States of America, Europe and Russia, Asia and Australia, Africa and the Middle East, and South America - this book provides support for today's environment reporters, the providers of essential news in the 21st century. As a scholarly and journalistic work written by academics and the environmental reporters themselves, this volume is an essential text for students and scholars of environmental communication, journalism, and global environmental issues more generally, as well as professionals working in this vital area. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures About the editors List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: environmental journalism Part I Journalism and the environment 1 The development of environmental journalism in the Western world 2 Sources, strategic communication, and environmental journalism 3 The rise of environmental journalism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America 4 In the crosshairs: the perils of environmental journalism 5 Finding and following the facts in an era of fake news 6 Audio storytelling 7 When environmental documentary films are journalism 8 The education needs of future environmental journalists Part II Environmental journalism in the United States 9 Love Canal 10 “What was tritium?” Conquering our own ignorance 11 Reporting on nuclear weapons of mass destruction: the Rocky Flats bomb factory 12 How we reported on the paving of paradise 13 Risky business: covering the environment in a changing media landscape 14 I communicate, therefore I tweet Part III Environmental journalism in Europe and Russia 15 Environmental journalism – the British experience 16 The environmental beat: public confusion, digital media, social media, and fake news in the United Kingdom and Ireland 17 Environmental journalism in France at a turning point 18 A green façade on a crumbling building? Environmental journalism in Germany 19 Environmental journalism in the Nordic countries 20 Environmental journalism in Spain 21 Environmental journalism in Russia 22 Bringing climate change reporting to Russia 23 The state of environmental journalism in the Balkan region 24 Covering the environment in Ukraine Part IV Environmental coverage in Asia and Australia 25 The status and future of environmental journalism in Japan 26 Environmental news reports in China 27 Environmental journalism in India: past, present, and future 28 Environmental journalism in Australia and New Zealand 29 Environmental journalism in the Asia and Pacific region Part V Environmental reporting in Africa and the Middle East 30 Environmental journalism – a perspective from South Africa 31 Swashbuckling tales: Oxpeckers peck away at the digital future of environmental journalism 32 Environmental journalism in East Africa: opportunities and challenges in the 21st century 33 Environmental journalism in Nigeria and Gambia 34 Journalism and environmental issues in the Middle East Part VI Environmental journalism in South America 35 Environmental journalism in Latin America 36 Ice magnet: the story of a thousand stories 37 Under the canopy, by the river: covering stories in the Amazon and Congo basins and the importance of a “pantropical” journalism Index