ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the effective climate journalism would celebrate political action by ordinary citizens and tell success stories about climate politics to counteract cynicism and counterbalance routine reporting of the failures of conventional politics. It suggests three levels of potential change in climate journalism: best practices, paradigms and structures. The chapter also discusses the practices and culture of alternative media scaled up to provide more space for a challenger paradigm such as Climate Crisis Journalism. The digital media environment obviously creates new tools, platforms and opportunities for environmental journalism. Civic Journalism has left important legacies for climate crisis communication. It opens up debate about journalism's democratic purposes and its relationship with those it claims to serve. Peace Journalism (PJ) focuses beyond overt bloodshed to include other forms of everyday violence that may underlie conflict situations: structural violence; the institutionalized barriers to human dignity and well-being, such as racism; and cultural violence, the glorification of battles, wars and military power.
