ABSTRACT
The environment first emerged as a clearly distinguishable category of news coverage in the late 1960s. Research on media and environmental news has demonstrated how news reporting is closely influenced by multiple factors, including key news values, the practices of journalists, the ownership and political outlook of news organizations, the type of news organization, and the publicity practices and communications activities of sources. Research has thus confirmed the complex influences on how the environment becomes ‘news’, how environmental issues are defined and framed in news media, and the complex and dynamic nature of how news media, political and public agendas interact.
