ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

Environmental journalism

part I|105 pages

Journalism and the environment

part II|54 pages

Environmental journalism in the United States

chapter 9|7 pages

Love Canal

chapter 11|8 pages

Reporting on nuclear weapons of mass destruction

The Rocky Flats bomb factory

chapter 13|12 pages

Risky business

Covering the environment in a changing media landscape

chapter 14|6 pages

I communicate, therefore I tweet

part III|86 pages

Environmental journalism in Europe and Russia

chapter 16|15 pages

The environmental beat

Public confusion, digital media, social media, and fake news in the United Kingdom and Ireland

chapter 18|9 pages

A green façade on a crumbling building?

Environmental journalism in Germany

part IV|65 pages

Environmental coverage in Asia and Australia

part V|52 pages

Environmental reporting in Africa and the Middle East

chapter 30|12 pages

Environmental journalism

A perspective from South Africa

chapter 31|11 pages

Swashbuckling tales

Oxpeckers peck away at the digital future of environmental journalism

chapter 32|12 pages

Environmental journalism in East Africa

Opportunities and challenges in the 21st century

part VI|25 pages

Environmental journalism in South America

chapter 36|6 pages

Ice magnet

The story of a thousand stories

chapter 37|8 pages

Under the canopy, by the river

Covering stories in the Amazon and Congo basins and the importance of a “pantropical” journalism