Climate journalism gathers, evaluates, selects, and presents information about climate
change, its characteristics, causes, and impacts, as well as ways to mitigate it, and …

Some well-established scientific findings may be rejected by vocal minorities because the
evidence is in conflict with political views or economic interests. For example, the tobacco …

Growing awareness of global ecological crises has provoked a set of new practices in
journalism that we suggest labeling transformative journalisms. The term encompasses a …

Environmental journalists have been at the forefront of news industry changes. Over the past
30 years, they have had to deal with a range of challenges, including increased complexity …

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a stress test for science journalism
worldwide. In this paper, we explore the under-researched topic of the perceived role …

Journalists' and publics' relationship with truth-telling is so messy because the term “truth”
holds multitudes of competing senses that are rarely acknowledged in journalism discourse …

In the early 2020s, climate change and environmental challenges became increasingly
important issues in the Russian political discourse. This was followed by growing media …

When Australian physicist, Peter Ridd, lost his tenured position with James Cook University,
he was called a 'whistleblower','contrarian academic'and 'hero of climate science denial'. In …

Communities of practice (CoP) are distinct community groups that share a common interest
in which they interact with one another to address problems and reach goals. In the present …

In this article, we propose to study news flashpoints. Flashpoints are bursts of news attention
that are unique to the networked news environment, in which various forces vie to influence …