ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 (“Climate Change News and Sources in Bangladesh”) continues to focus on the usage of various sources by journalists. It draws on data from The Daily Star and the Prothom Alo in 2009 and 2015 to explore how journalists shaped various environmental issues by using different sources in the debate. It identifies variations in the presence of sources between the two periods. Political sources were dominant in the articles from 2009 whereas expert sources were prevalent in those from 2015. As evident in the empirical data, the pattern of source dominance was similar in the two countries in 2009 but diverged in 2015. The statements of political sources were also least verified in these two Bangladeshi newspapers. The analysis of the use of sources elucidates the contestation of power between various agents in defining the reality of climate change as a macro-level environmental threat and sheds light on the complexities resulting from the presence of diverse social elements as news sources.
