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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|105 pages
Journalism and the environment
part II|54 pages
Environmental journalism in the United States
part III|86 pages
Environmental journalism in Europe and Russia
chapter 16|15 pages
The environmental beat
part IV|65 pages
Environmental coverage in Asia and Australia
part V|52 pages
Environmental reporting in Africa and the Middle East
chapter 31|11 pages
Swashbuckling tales
chapter 32|12 pages
Environmental journalism in East Africa
part VI|25 pages
Environmental journalism in South America