ABSTRACT
The term ‘risk journalism’ is traditionally used in international scholarly debates to address the various dangers journalists are exposed to in their work. The direct risks to journalists are also extended to digital domains, including, distortion of journalistic narratives by “fake” news, the threats made by extremist social media groups or professional and personal risks caused by content traceability – either exercised by authoritarian governments or commercial entities, often labelled as “surveillance capitalism”. In the case of climate change research, however, a close review reveals that the innovative and fine-lined methodological approaches outlined above seldom informed actual research angles. The emphasis on the reflexive perception of journalists in contexts of global crises allows us to better illuminate the specific ways in which they construct the crisis, such as climate change, how they perceive key issues and how they develop notions of crisis interdependence.
